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For those of you who think your vote doesn't count, tell that to Chief Justice John Roberts. He has thrown the Obamacare ball back into the voters court.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 11:16 am
By: Ken Lang
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My friends on the Left keep saying things aren't so bad. We just need to spend more money to keep doing the same things, and everything will be fine.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 11:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ms. Rena Everton Topping Robinson, 77, a resident of 9096 N.C. Highway 99 North, Pantego, died Thursday, July 5, 2012, at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 10:50 am
By: Announcements
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Miles M. Jones, 58, of Bay City, Texas, died June 29, 2012.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 10:42 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Hannah Wilson, of 909 Belgrade Road, Silver Spring, Md., died Thursday, June 28, 2012, at Holy Cross Hospital, Silver Spring, Md.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 10:32 am
By: Announcements
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Gov. Beverly Perdue on Sunday vetoed legislation that would have paved the way for a robust local energy sector, lured private investment to the state and created new jobs for North Carolinians.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 10:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A dog, a pickup truck, spurned love, maybe some prison time, and beer -- a good country song mentions them in some combination. That's the old joke.
Published: Friday, July 6th, 2012 @ 9:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Viewing the tape of the July 2, Beaufort County Commissioner's monthly meeting I thought I had been transported to another world.
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2012 @ 3:26 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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Mr. Harry Eugene Meisell, 61, a resident of 101 West River Acres Road, Washington, died Monday, July 2, 2012 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2012 @ 7:51 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Brenda Swindell, 64, a resident of River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, died Wednesday, July 4, 2012.
Published: Thursday, July 5th, 2012 @ 7:46 am
By: Announcements
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"Jose can you see," this was a line from Jose Jimenez's routine on the Ed Sullivan show, Sunday nights, on CBS in the sixties. Jose Jimenez was a stage name for the comedian Bill Dana.
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 @ 3:43 pm
By: John Inzerillo, M.D.
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Mrs. Elsie Barrow Chance, 88, a resident of Cross Creek Health Care Center, Swan Quarter, and formerly of 6458 Sladesville-Credle Road, Scranton, died Sunday, July 1, 2012.
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 @ 7:48 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Harry Eugene Meisell, 61, a resident of 101 W. River Acres Road, Washington, died Monday at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 @ 7:46 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Lynn Alynn Smith, 75, a resident of Catnip Point, Bath, died Tuesday, July 3, 2012.
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 @ 7:43 am
By: Announcements
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Cleo P. Fox Titus, 94, of 220 Old Durham Road, Roxboro, N.C., died Monday, July 2, 2012, at her home.
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 @ 7:30 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Betty Fay O’Neal Winslow, 73, a resident of 4761 Ward Blvd., Wilson, died Sunday, July 1, 2012, at Wilson Memorial Hospital.
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2012 @ 7:25 am
By: Announcements
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Join the Beaufort County Community College Foundation, Saturday, Aug. 4, for a trip to Durham to see Christie Brinkley in the musical Chicago and tour Duke University's world-famous Lemur Center.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 6:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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They are heralding solutions to education woes, an anemic economy, joblessness and illegal immigration, but Republican congressional and lieutenant governor candidates in North Carolina's July 17 runoff elections lament that their messages will not spark much voter turnout.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 6:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina can improve its dismal 9.4% unemployment rate - currently fourth worst in the nation. To understand what that takes, however, requires an understanding of what makes a state's economy thrive relative to those of other states.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 6:00 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and Rep. Paul "Skip" Stam, House Majority Leader, released the following statements today after the North Carolina House of Representatives voted to override Gov. Bev Perdue's veto of Senate Bill 416, which modifies the procedures for the death penalty.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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When Chief Justice John Roberts released his majority opinion upholding the constitutionality of President Obama's health care bill, the reaction among conservative and libertarian lawyers, scholars, and policy activists was mixed.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 4:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What a sad day when the Supreme Court loses sight of what the Constitution's purpose is to protect the rights of individuals, and not to take them away.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 4:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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An override of Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue's budget veto highlighted a day of votes in which the Republican-controlled General Assembly shot down the governor's vetoes three times.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 3:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mrs. Elsie Barrow Chance, 88, a resident of Cross Creek Health Care Center, formerly of 6458 Sladesville-Credle Road, Scranton, died Sunday, July 1, 2012.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 12:49 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Margaret Marie Short Foster, 79, a resident of 1028 Pamlico Beach Road West, Belhaven, died Friday, June 29, 2012, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 12:46 am
By: Announcements
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John Patrick “J.P.” O’Neal, 72, of 6965 Turnpike Road, of the Rose Bay community, died Saturday, June 30, 2012, at Vidant Pungo Hospital, Belhaven.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 12:38 am
By: Announcements
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The Rev. James Edward Wilson was born on Sept. 22, 1914, in the Old Ford Community, Washington, and passed away on June 20, 2012, in Richmond, Va. Rev. Wilson was a resident of Westminster Canterbury, in Richmond, Va.
Published: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012 @ 12:33 am
By: Announcements
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Investigator Wesley Waters applied for and obtained warrants charging Hilton Gray Everson, III, age 36, and Amiee Dunn Dail, age 37, with Felony Breaking and Entering.
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 @ 3:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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These latest announcements from the Chocowinity Primary School, via the Beaufort County School System, reminds us that schools are a focal point of activity.
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 @ 2:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The national press is obsessed with gun deaths. These liberals never miss an opportunity to headline a gun death. The most recent usable sets of numbers on drug deaths, automobile deaths and gun deaths is 2009.
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 @ 2:01 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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A congress of baboons, Arthur Davidson and a computer geek walk into a room ...
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 @ 12:31 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Max Albert Dorat Tejada, a.k.a. Max Alberto Diaz, a 24 years old man from Salvador, was arrested in Ayden, NC on Saturday, June 30, in the stabbing death of 32-year-old Hope Cutler of Washington, NC.
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 @ 10:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There was an article in the 6/29 issue of the WDN (page 3, News Briefs) that said the NC backers of the NC private tuition law have given up (for now).
Published: Sunday, July 1st, 2012 @ 4:46 am
By: Jim Bispo
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