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Mrs. Isabel "Tuck" Bowers Dixon, age 88, a resident of 166 Robersonville Road, Washington, died Sunday, March 3, 2013, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 3:02 pm
By: Announcements
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Washington Noon Rotary: Reverse Raffle Drawing
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 9:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced that AREVA, the largest technical resource for the nation's nuclear energy sector, will expand its operations in Charlotte to include its North American headquarters.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 9:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Who could possibly be against protecting women against violence? The renewal of the disingenuously-named Violence Against Women Act sailed through the Senate with 78 of 100 votes and 238 votes out of 435 (87 GOP votes) in the House.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:39 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A change in North Carolina's tax code is coming this year. The most likely outcome will be a reduction in the reliance on our state's income taxes and more of a reliance on an expanded sales tax.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Has North Carolina's economy turned the corner? It depends on how you define "turn the corner." And it depends on what measure you choose.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The last week of February must have been a slow news period, because all we seemed to hear about was a heated discussion between Gene Sperling and Bob Woodward.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:07 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Here is the latest briefing from the NWS concerning the incoming storm. It appears the storm will be tracking further North than originally expected.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 7:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Despite a ruling by the N.C. Court of Appeals saying the state has no interest in the property known as Hammocks Beach, lawyers working for Attorney General Roy Cooper are forcing John H. Hurst and his sister Harriet Hurst Turner to continue fighting for the 289-acre Onslow County waterfront...
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The establishment and the MSM have worked hard to slander and defame Tea Partiers in the eyes of their low-information audiences. The Washington Post -- yep, THEM -- suggests that the GOP needs to treat The Tea Party like Slick Willie Clinton treated that skank Sista Souljah back in 1992.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2013 @ 5:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Beaufort County Republican Party's Reagan Day Dinner has set its date, and respectfully requests your attendance.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2013 @ 5:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced that Rack Room Shoes, a family footwear retailer, will expand its corporate headquarters in Charlotte.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2013 @ 5:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The following amendments to the Constitution of the United States will allow us to continue to be a great nation for another 200 years. Without them we will become a socialist quagmire.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2013 @ 4:42 am
By: Hood Richardson
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NC DOT has added a third Public Hearing about proposed toll changes on its ferry routes.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 3:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A pro-growth tax reform including elimination of state personal and corporate income taxes has garnered significant attention in North Carolina over the last several weeks.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 2:26 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We hope that Santa came to your house this year and gave you what you wanted. We at the Pope Center are still hoping for our wish list to be fulfilled--but we have high hopes for the New Year.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 2:14 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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A 1997 bill that exempted "payday lenders" from state usury laws was allowed to sunset in 2001, and the last storefront lenders were shut down in 2005.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The hottest trend these days among mainstream media-types is to publish names and addresses of people who have concealed-carry permits. WRAL and a newspaper in NY tried it -- and got burned.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 11:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Note the counties involved. It is regrettable that Beaufort is not one of those listed.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 10:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There's much tradition associated with the office of president of the United States. That wasn't true back in 1791, when the first president, George Washington, was serving his first term. Washington's decision to tour Southern states that year set an interesting precedent for his successors.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 11:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center offers a variety of special programs and activities to help cancer patients, survivors as well as their primary caregivers deal with the emotional and physical challenges associated with having cancer.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 11:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Nearly 300 students and other campus visitors got a look into the future of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, careers recently on the Beaufort County Community College campus.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announce industrial expansion in North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The other day, Walter Jones, Jr. was babbling about Dick Cheney roasting in hell.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 4:02 am
By: Brant Clifton
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As I've previously discussed, one key issue in the recent debate over expanding North Carolina's Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act involved estimating how many new Medicaid enrollees would truly have been uninsured without it.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 3:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Both were charged with Possession With Intent to Sell and Deliver Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 3:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Rexford Hugh Pittman, age 85, of Pinetown, passed away Thursday, February 28, 2013.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 3:39 am
By: Announcements
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Finner Alonza Chapman, formerly of 610 Van Norden St., Washington, died Thursday, February 28, 2013, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital, Washington.
Published: Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 @ 3:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Like many readers I recently encountered the sad tale of how James W. Wagner, President of Emory University, had to apologize for praising the Constitution's three-fifths compromise (treating slaves as three-fifths of a person for purposes of congressional representation).
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:40 pm
By: Robert Weissberg
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Last week state Sens. Thom Goolsby (R-New Hanover) and Tom Apadoca (R-Buncombe) sponsored legislation (SB 125) to make it a class 3 misdemeanor to violate public records and open meetings laws, which would at long last give those laws some teeth.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Mrs. Edelmira Cisneros, age 68, a resident of Ricks St., Washington, NC, passed away on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:22 pm
By: Announcements
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Over the next few years, members of the Collaborative will concentrate on implementing Lean, a business improvement philosophy and practice widely used to identify and improve business processes.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A person who calls 911 for help for someone who has overdosed on drugs would receive limited immunity from prosecution under a Good Samaritan Law that passed a Senate committee Thursday.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 9:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"It's Not what they say, it's what they do." THAT is the slogan that hits you first when you call up The Club For Growth's home page.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 9:33 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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