Measuring the performance of colleges - and holding them accountable for their performance - is an unsolved problem. A new "earnings gains" measure of community colleges in North Carolina aims to solve it.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 11:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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However, some people just bypass the drug companies and go straight to the source. They eat Kaolin or "White Gold" as the Georgians in Sandersville call it.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) spoke at a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee hearing on the impact of exposure to toxic chemicals on veterans.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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One out of every three North Carolinians is a millennial. And those in the generation born between 1982 and 2004 will soon become the largest chunk of the adult population as well. But that doesn't mean millennials will play an outsized role in the 2016 elections.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 4:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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r. Hughes Fairbanks Foster, Jr., age 62, a resident of 761 Cedar Village Road, Belhaven, died Sunday, September 27, 2015 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 12:32 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Cecelia Ann Paul Brooks Warrington, age 73, a resident of 202 White Oak Drive, Greenville, NC died Sunday, September 27, 2015 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 12:25 pm
By: Announcements
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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: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"'Bipartisan' usually means that a larger-than-usual deception is being carried out," comedian George Carlin once quipped. Perhaps, then, North Carolinians should be suspicious about the fact that the University of North Carolina system's president, a Democrat, and its Board of Governors...
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 11:57 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Conscientious Objectors (COs) could serve as Chaplains or Medics and op out of carrying weapons.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 10:52 am
By: Ted McDonald
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The State Board of Education's decision to intervene in the affairs of the Halifax County Schools is hardly surprising. Decades of mismanagement and dysfunction have led to high teacher turnover rates and appalling student achievement outcomes.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 6:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Well, they did it. Thumbed their collective noses at those of us who voted to give them super-majorities in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Most probably would not include this song on their hit parade, but it hit me particular hard in 1960 when as a 15 year old.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:21 am
By: Bobby Tony
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North Carolina has long faced challenges with aging infrastructure - and with a rapidly growing population, our state's needs are also rapidly growing.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I have a theory about presidential politics and the 2016 election. It has the virtue of fitting much of the data currently available. Another of the theory's virtues is that it can readily generate a couple of plausible scenarios for how the primary season may play out among...
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 4:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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September 22 is National Voter Registration Day, and the State Board of Elections is encouraging North Carolina's 6.38 million voters to check their registration status online.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 3:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As part of his remarks while visiting the White House on his first day in the United States, Pope Francis made a strong plea on behalf of religious liberty, which he specifically directed at President Obama. This came shortly before he made an unscheduled visit with the Little Sisters of the Poor...
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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