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Since there is a LOT going on with the Newport wind project, it was suggested that everything be consolidated onto a webpage.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 5:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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You can reform particular organizations - a university or a department - but you cannot reform education as a whole. Why? Because education is a spontaneous order.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 3:01 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Sen. Pete Brunstetter (R-Forsyth), co-chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations/Base Budget, announced Thursday he will retire from the General Assembly effective December 15, 2013.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 1:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The law enforcement official who led the New Jersey State Police efforts to improve community relations after a racial profiling scandal has been hired as the new police chief at East Carolina University.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
By: Announcements
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In January 2011, Thom Tillis was elected speaker of the state House. In March, 2011, it hit the media that House leaders were attempting to kill a conservative-promoted measure to eliminate the state's "renewable energy" mandate.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 11:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Karen Sue Roberson Johnson, age 61, a resident of Roberson Rd., Washington, NC passed away Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at her home.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 9:29 am
By: Announcements
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Over the past three years, the North Carolina legislature has enacted Ronald Reagan's favorite tax reform, Barry Goldwater's favorite regulatory reform, and Milton Friedman's favorite education reform. Yet some North Carolina conservatives of my acquaintance seem to think that the Republicans who...
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On November 19, 2013 at approximately 1:30 a.m., Corporal Jonathan Fowler and Deputy Greg Van Essendelft were patrolling in the area of Highway 264 West of Washington, NC.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 1:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Political power tends to corrupt, absolute political power tends to corrupt absolutely. Whether it is individuals or political parties, nether should stay in power too long.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 1:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A celebration of history, local arts and pirate entertainment!
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Regardless of whether it is measured in nominal, per capita, or inflation-adjusted terms, state spending is increasing.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 18 offenders were hand-picked for a special program, based on their arrest records (not conviction records). All are at high risk to run afoul of the law while they are on parole, probation, or work release.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Educators, wildlife officers, law enforcement officials and office workers were among the state employees from all across the state to be honored Tuesday afternoon with the Governor's Award for Excellence at a ceremony at the North Carolina Museum of History. Ten of the award recipients were ...
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Community College is seeking approval to offer course work in the field of Agribusiness Technology, a field that will provide many job opportunities for area residents, college officials announced this week.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos deserve credit for trying to sort out and find solutions to our Mental Health program. North Carolina's 2001 mental health "reforms" have been a disaster and the McCrory administration is the first to seriously address them.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Mr. Buster "Al" Allen Duncan, age 85, a resident of 111 Rock Rd., Washington, died Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Center.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 7:51 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Theodora "Dokie' Miller, age 86, a resident of Bath went home to our heavenly Father on Wednesday November 20, 2013.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 7:43 pm
By: Announcements
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Ms. Constance Faye "Connie" Baynor, age 66, a resident of 23075 NC Hwy. 32, North, Plymouth, NC died Tuesday November 19, 2013 at Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 7:38 pm
By: Announcements
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The liberal Larry Britt and Windy William Buonanno come to almost all the Beaufort County Commissioner meetings these days, and sit on the back row with somber scowling faces.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Mrs. Elizabeth "Claudette" Furman Kelly, age 61, a resident of 710 Foreman Lane, Belhaven, NC went to be with her Lord on Tuesday November 19, 2013 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 6:42 pm
By: Announcements
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Karen Sue Roberson Johnson, age 61, a resident of Roberson Rd., Washington, NC passed away Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at her home.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 6:38 pm
By: Announcements
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Lloyd D. Smith (Stillwater) the son of the late Joseph and Mary Smith died on Wednesday Morning November 13 at 2:30 a.m. at home.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 6:00 pm
By: Announcements
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On September 13, 2013, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a break-in and theft at a residence on A&A Lane in Washington, NC.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 4:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Karen Sue Roberson Johnson, 61, a resident of Roberson Road, Washington, died Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
By: Announcements
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East Carolina University's College of Nursing has partnered with Vidant Medical Center to launch its first alumni network in eastern North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 3:02 pm
By: ECU News Services
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N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper sounded much like a candidate for governor Monday morning when the four-term Democrat addressed the media at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 2:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the Tar Heel State’s smallest counties is speaking pretty loudly this week. Gates County is on the border with Virginia in the northeastern quadrant of the state. It’s county GOP organization has jumped head-first into the GOP primary for the US Senate.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 1:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The term "spontaneous order" was coined by the economist F.A. Hayek to describe the market economy. He meant that no one designed the world of market exchange; it developed spontaneously as people sought to achieve their goals by coordinating with others in ways that they discovered over time.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 8:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Herbert Croly was instrumental in describing an alternative vision of government that was radically different than the one pictured by the Founding Fathers - Progressivism.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 8:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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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, November 19th, 2013 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I wish I could comment: 'There are two types of people in this world - Liberals and Conservatives - so let the battle begin for the conscious conscience of today's America!"
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 @ 7:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The latest Energy and Environmental Newsletter is now available online.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 @ 7:38 pm
By: John Droz, Jr.
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On October 18, 2013, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report of larceny of an air conditioner unit at a residence on Mary Street in Chocowinity.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 @ 7:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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