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With the economic collapse of the last decade brought on largely due to the bursting of the housing bubble, does anybody still think it a good idea for government to encourage investments in "underserved" populations
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Department of Public Safety (DPS) Secretary Frank L. Perry and State Budget Director Lee Roberts met with Moore County leaders today to highlight the public safety improvements included in Governor Pat McCrory's Connect NC bond proposal.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 10:02 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Is it just me or have we come to a time when people can say anything they want with no sense of remorse of concern for others?
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Homeschooling reached a milestone in North Carolina in the 2014-15 school year. The number of students enrolled in homeschools in the state topped 100,000
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new audit shows that the agency that spent $29 million training blind North Carolinians to operate snack bars had no way of tracking whether the program actually helped those blind operators.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted in favor of legislation that would require congressional approval of federal rules that impose significant burdens on the American economy. H.R. 427.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 6:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 1:25 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The John Locke Foundation recently commemorated the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta (Latin for “Great Charter”).
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Each year, dozens of students at Beaufort County Community College benefit from scholarships offered by the BCCC Foundation, but it does much more.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:47 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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Sixty-two campers in kindergarten through 10th grade are taking part in the East Carolina University School of Art and Design's STEM to STEAM Summer Camp held July 27-31.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: ECU News Services
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In recent weeks, conservative legal scholar Kurt Lash and libertarian legal scholar Damon Root have treated readers to a lively online debate about how best to interpret Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which reads
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Senate passed a six-year highway bill that includes provisions previously introduced by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC)
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 12:46 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Azucena Warren beat breast cancer in 1998, following treatment at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center in Greenville.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:52 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It sounds like something out of one of The Godfather movies, or the final days of Nixon. But the reports we're getting make that headline look like a real possibility.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory is offering rewards of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible in two seperate murder cases.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:17 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in Board of Regents v. Southworth that using mandatory student fees to fund student organizations and speakers does not violate the First Amendment rights of those who disagree with the content.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Vidant Health is committed to enhancing the quality of life for the people and communities it serves, touches, and supports
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:26 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Think food, hula hooping, dancing, and lots of family fun. National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and public camaraderie to make our cities safer, better places to live
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 3:37 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Joseph E. Hofmann, age 89, a resident of Washington, NC passed away on July 29, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington, NC.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 11:05 am
By: Announcements
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Today, the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee held a hearing regarding the persistent homeless veterans population that continues to plague 40,000-45,000 of the men and women who served our nation in honor.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 10:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mainstream media accounts missed the mark when treating recent Wake County school board campaigns as fights pitting supporters of diversity against supporters of neighborhood schools, or longtime residents versus newcomers from out of state, or north Raleigh and western Wake County residents against
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 9:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This is a resolution to propose that Article I, Section 4 be removed from the NC state constitution, in part to acknowledge that the federal government unconstitutionally required the provision and in part to reassert state soverignty
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The N.C. Supreme Court gave a boost to school choice efforts on Thursday by declaring that the state's fledgling Opportunity Scholarships Program met constitutional muster.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the Tea Party era, the Tenth Amendment to The US Constitution has been getting some much needed attention.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:22 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Let's take a giant leap into the present of 2015 and see what we have on religious society.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I'm Gonna miss her-----
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 3:57 am
By: Bobby Tony
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When the word "lobbyist" is mentioned, what comes to mind? For so many the answer is manipulation, scheming, and corruption
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 3:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) questioned Chairman Dempsey as to why the United States would have confidence in Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions when the regime is the world's top state sponsor of terrorism and continues to threaten and make incendiary rhetoric.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 3:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One day, Bill Bennett may be best remembered for saying (in 1987, while he was President Reagan's education secretary) that government student aid was largely responsible for the fact that the cost of going to college kept rising. What is called the "Bennett Hypothesis" has been heavily debated
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Left has had a field day blaming a whole lot of terrible things on the fact that Confederate flag imagery even exists.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 9:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Bernice Franklin Privette, of 212 Holly Drive, Washington, died Saturday, July 25, 2015, of a heart attack and after a battle with Lewy Body Dementia.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 12:48 pm
By: Announcements
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