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It has been four years since Republicans took control of our legislature. They now control all three branches of state government.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 11:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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When you think of community colleges, you tend to think of things like, Offshore-Re-education-Camp-Lesson-6oh, job training and continuing education.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 6:09 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2001, the voters in Mississippi decided the keep the stars and bars on their flag.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:58 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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State Rep. Rob Bryan plans to introduce legislation creating a pilot program transforming as many as five perpetually failing elementary schools into charter-like entities under a new Achievement School District with its own superintendent.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a campaign email last week, Attorney General Roy Cooper made it clear he wants to engage in a public debate about policy. But while the attorney general and Democrat candidate for governor made his support for Obamacare clear.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I doubt if there will ever be a robot that can calculate the value of a human life.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:46 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that TTI Floor Care N.A., the marketer and manufacturer of the iconic Hoover, Dirt Devil and Oreck brands, will create...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:31 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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In June, the US Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code. The Court held that, under the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures, "The provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code that requires hotel operators to make their registries...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Vidant Health continues to assess the potential impacts of an incomplete state budget, including the uncertainty of Medicaid reform, its Board of Directors approved the fiscal year 2016 operational plan today.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 4:31 pm
By: Chris Downey
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If you do not think you are invested in the Stock Market, think again. If you have insurance, you are invested in the stock market.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:43 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Kudos to Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly for moving budget talks forward and reaching an agreement on the spending number for the 2015-16 budget year.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have always enjoyed film reviews ... well some of them. Obviously our readers do too.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 1:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Making progress on the establishment of two new schools, an enrollment of 30,000 students and the largest fundraising campaign in school history are among East Carolina University's priorities for this academic year, according to Chancellor Steve Ballard.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 12:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Mr. Hillary Bartley, age 94, a resident of 725 U.S. Highway 264 Bypass, Belhaven, died Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 12:52 pm
By: Announcements
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Arthur "Art" Blair Reams, age 72, a resident of 121 Fairway Drive, Washington, NC, passed away peacefully at his home Monday, August 24, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 12:42 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Richard Allen Potter, age 59, a resident of Chocowinity, NC died Sunday, August 23, 2015 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 12:30 pm
By: Announcements
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One of the most popular options for expanding educational opportunity is the Education Savings Account (ESA). Currently five states - Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Nevada - have passed ESA legislation, and at least 10 other states have bills in the works.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 10:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On August 19th 2015 at approximately 11:00 PM, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a shooting at a residence on Magnolia School Road in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 9:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Listen to mainstream education advocates, and you'll come away thinking that not enough people are going to college. But if you listen to higher education reformers, particularly political conservatives, you'll hear that too many are going to college.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Animal Colony" is an excellent book to help discredit socialism to young readers and to introduce them to proper notions of freedom.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 8:54 am
By: Diane Rufino
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E. M. Forster's frightening short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which all human activity has been subsumed by a global digital network similar to the Internet (except that Forster's version is controlled by a worldwide government bureaucracy)...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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This past week I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at Americans for Prosperity's annual event, the Defending the American Dream Summit. I spoke about Washington's power grab and how the growth of federal agencies is threatening our laboratories of democracy. Many of us know that...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Vidant Health Foundation distributed more than $1.8 million through 132 grants for communities in eastern North Carolina for the 2015-2016 grant cycle. Grants were awarded for programs that focused on chronic disease prevention and management, access to care and nutrition and physical activity.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:33 am
By: Chris Downey
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Scientists from around the world converged on East Carolina University's health sciences campus Aug. 10-13 to get a crash course in an organelle that powers all human cells.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:30 am
By: ECU News Services
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Why are Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, and Don Imus popular?
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:27 am
By: Bobby Tony
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