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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), along with a group of 25 other Senators, sent a letter to the Department of Labor (DOL), expressing concern and frustration over the Department's H-2B labor certification process. The bipartisan letter explains the complications employers with H-2B workers face...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 8:07 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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The Beaufort County Community College Foundation Board of Directors will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015 in the Board Room of Building 10 on the BCCC campus. There will be a light breakfast at 8 a.m., and the meeting will begin at 8:30. For more information, interested persons...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 7:15 pm
By: Beaufort County Community College
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It's hard not to sympathize with the plight of the young musician who, despite or perhaps rather because of his passion, is destined to scrape together his living in "the real world" outside the towering ivory walls of our traditional institutions of classical music
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 7:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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He was just a poor Wilmington, North Carolina boy, but he and the devil went to Georgia. Born on October 28, 1936 he turns 78 today.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:44 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today released the following statement following state Rep. Leo Daughtry's announcement that he will not seek re-election...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:35 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Higher education is changing rapidly, and the University of North Carolina system must adapt accordingly, said former U.S. secretary of education Margaret Spellings, who was elected Oct. 23 to be the sixth president of the consolidated UNC system.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Divergent, in the similar formula of Hunger Games, proposes a future world forever changed by a cataclysmic event, against the simmering backdrop of teen angst, and maturing relationships of the opposite sex.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:26 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, questioned Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph F. Dunford on whether they were consulted by President Obama before his veto of the National Defense...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 4:22 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Every two years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administers rigorous math and reading tests to a representative sample of fourth- and eighth-grade students from each state and Washington, D.C. NAEP occasionally administers assessments covering other subjects, grade-levels...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 3:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the state continues to increase spending, many citizens have begun to suspect that the effectiveness of that spending is diminishing. North Carolina's balanced budget amendment was intended to create a fiscally responsible state that uses tax dollars wisely. However, over the last few decades...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 1:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the passage of S.754, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which was sponsored by Senator Richard Burr (R-NC). The bipartisan legislation will enable the government and private sector to voluntarily share information about malicious threats and...
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 1:02 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Ruth DeLeeuw Larson, 65, died Friday, October 23, 2015 at her home in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 12:52 pm
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Back in 2009, when I started my radio talk show, I knew that President Obama would be one of the worst presidents this nation has ever had.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:47 am
By: Rod Eccles
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Politicians never cease to amaze me. A few sessions back, I was treated to a barrage of b*tching from various Republican legislators about Skip Stam and Thom Tillis.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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