"I love it when a plan comes together."
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:38 pm
By: Fern Shubert
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History teaches us that the Ku Klux Klan was a violent organization aimed at terrorizing and intimidating former slaves. They operated as a secret society - a bunch of cowards with white gowns and masks, often carrying guns and a noose.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Public transit systems in North Carolina have become less about helping citizens move around their communities in the way they desire and more about planners gaining enough political power to impose their transportation preferences and land use fads on those citizens.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hurricane Sandy, a killer storm with over 58 already dead in its wake, is passing the North Carolina coast slightly further to the east, and appears that it will make landfall further north, just south from the center of the New Jersey shore.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 12:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As I saw Sandra Fluke hob-nobbing around the Anointed One and his henchmen at the Democrat Convention (and since), I couldn't help but think about Monica L. and all that connotes.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 12:11 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Charles August Kuehn, son of the late August and Emma (Hein) Kuehn, was born on April 7, 1921 in Hartford, Connecticut and departed this life to be with his heavenly Father on Saturday, October 27, 2012 in Tarboro, North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:09 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Helen Faye Rowe Scrase, age 71, a resident of 530 East St. Belhaven, died Friday, October 26, 2012 at her home.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 12:53 am
By: Announcements
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You said that you would have the most transparent presidency in the history of the United States.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 12:43 am
By: Marvin Sparks
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Hurricane Sandy continues to grow and we become the largest CAT 1 storm in history (1,000 miles in diameter) before she makes landfall, hopefully in the Northeast.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 11:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, was passed in 2010 in a hurried process that allowed for little understanding of what was in the 2,700-page document.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Floyd’s arrest stemmed from Investigators conducting a controlled purchase of Oxycodone (Schedule II Controlled Substance) from Floyd.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new Civitas Institute study has confirmed what critics have been saying for years: North Carolina's Same Day and Last-Minute Voter Registration processes are seriously flawed.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Hurricane Sandy is approaching the North Carolina Coast, but at present, as per the storm track forecast by the National Hurricane Center, it appears that it will skirt our coast and make Landfall near the Delaware Bay.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 9:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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While North Carolina's economy continues to rot. and the unemployment lines get bigger, the Democrat Party only wants to talk about gynecology.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 9:23 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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"I have no separate feeling about being an American citizen and colored. I am merely a fragment of the Great Soul that surges within the boundaries. My country, right or wrong." -- Zora Neale Hurston.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 4:33 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Hurricane Sandy is approaching the North Carolina Coast, but at present, as per the storm track forecast by the National Hurricane Center, it appears that it will skirt our coast and make Landfall near the Delaware Bay.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 1:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I heard through the grapevine that John Hood thinks I don't like him very much. (For the record, all I know of him is what I read in his columns and what I hear him saying on NC Spin.)
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 10:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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On October 24, 2012, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit arrested Teaspoon Bo Terry, age 20, of Barnes Drive in Chocowinity, Stuart Thomas Beavers, age 24, of 123 Chandler Rd. in Vanceboro, Thomas Cole Duncan, age 22, of 601 Possum Hill Rd. in Bath and Evan Brooks Horne, age 20, of 1
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 9:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The physical abandonment of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh is a final exclamation point on the state's moral abandonment of the mentally ill, essentially returning us to mid-19th century conditions when the mentally ill were confined to jails, locked in attics or hidden from sight in poorhouses.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 8:14 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Dr. Avanti Mehta is now practicing with Vidant Medical Group at Vidant Multispecialty Clinic - Tarboro.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 1:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Bob Underwood Rose, Sr., age 74, a resident of Moncks Corner, SC and a former resident of the Wenona Community of Pantego died Wednesday, October 24, 2012, at Trident Medical Center of Charleston, SC.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 1:24 am
By: Announcements
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Lenora Davis Burrus, 75, a resident of 353 Old County Road, Belhaven, died Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, at Vidant Pungo Hospital.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 1:19 am
By: Announcements
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Ms. Shirley Ann Baker, age 73, a resident of Washington, died Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 1:15 am
By: Announcements
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Thelma Palmer Cayton, 62, of Aurora, died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at home.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 1:08 am
By: Announcements
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Shawn Lee Hall, 37, of Chocowinity, died Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 1:03 am
By: Announcements
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We are encouraging everyone to stay home Sunday night and travel only as necessary! Falling tree debris, high winds and wet roads make travel after dark risky.
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 11:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The political establishment -- and the state political media -- are coming around to the realization that, barring the discovery of a dead girl or a live boy in the McCrory residence, Mayor Pat will be getting a promotion at the end of the year.
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 11:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2007 the North Carolina General Assembly passed far-reaching electricity regulations, typically referred to as Senate Bill 3. At the heart of this bill is a 12.5 percent "renewable energy and energy efficiency portfolio standard."
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 11:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Investigator Jim Adams applied for and obtained warrants charging Danny Ray Hill, age 34, of West Lenoir Street in Kinston, NC and Tomekia Nicole Cox, age 34, of Trade Street in Washington, NC with one count each of Felony Breaking and Entering and Larceny after Breaking and Entering.
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 10:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Beverly Perdue declares a State of Emergency in advance of Hurricane Sandy making landfall just north of the North Carolina coast.
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 9:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Walk from Obesity is a fundraising walk that supports research, education, prevention and treatment of the life-threatening disease of obesity.
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 8:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Cherry Hospital, a state-run adult inpatient psychiatric facility in Goldsboro, welcomed a federally funded nonprofit organization to conduct a voter registration drive of mental patients, likely a violation of state law.
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 5:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mrs. Yvonne Brantley Waters, 75, of Durham, died on Wednesday, October 24, 2012.
Published: Friday, October 26th, 2012 @ 1:48 pm
By: Announcements
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