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Lt. Governor Dan Forest named the hiring of the following staff.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 12:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Eva Kennedy Bierman, age 86, a resident of 50 Riverside Road, Washington, died Monday, September 9, 2013 at her home.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 11:44 am
By: Announcements
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If your goal is to foster economic growth and job creation, there's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes on business. Fortunately, Pat McCrory and the General Assembly made the right choice.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Registration is under way for the 20th annual Beaufort County Community College Foundation Golf Tournament to be held Friday, Sept. 20, at the Washington Yacht and Country Club.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 9:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's demise was part of the draconian elections overhaul passed by the legislature and signed by the governor last month that makes it harder for North Carolinians to register and vote.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 9:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Frank Theodore (Ted) Bowen entered the Church Triumphant on September 7, 2013.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 7:39 am
By: Announcements
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In 2008, a committee of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill discovered that the average grade of a Carolina student was 3.213 - well over a B average. Led by Andrew Perrin, a professor of sociology, the school's Educational Policy Committee began looking at how other universities were dealing...
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 7:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The survey of 400 registered, unaffiliated North Carolina voters was done Aug. 19-20. More than 26 percent of registered voters in the state are unaffiliated.
Published: Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 @ 7:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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While North Carolina's mainstream media was on its extended Labor Day vacation, The Heartland Institute decided to pick up the slack and do a little reporting about what's happening within our fair state's public education system
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 11:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Like teachers in many states, North Carolina public school teachers have historically received an automatic 10 percent salary increase by earning a master's degree. Now North Carolina is believed to be the first state in the nation to eliminate the financial reward for earning the master's.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, September 9, 2013
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 10:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Where in the world did the notion that the Reps are the villains who keep threatening to shut down the government come from?? The Anointed One says it; Harry Reid says it; Nancy P. says it; it turns up in all the Dem talking points papers.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 10:04 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Goose Creek State Park Calendar of Events for September, 2013
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 9:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If one is interested in what realistically passes for total Conservative political discourse in Beaufort County, one must visit the Conservative Republican Club, Thursday Night, September 12, 2013.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 2:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Don't look now, but North Carolina's long-maligned highway system is showing signs of significant improvement.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Lee Controls, LLC will locate its manufacturing and headquarters operations in Brunswick County. The company plans to create 77 new jobs and invest $2.46 million over the next three years near Southport.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 12:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dr. Sharon M. Gordon has been named the first associate dean for research and chair of Foundational Sciences of the ECU School of Dental Medicine. Gordon assumed her new role Aug. 19.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 12:20 pm
By: ECU News Services
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"Because the public sector does not allocate its resources based on economic criteria, it can and does continue to allocate resources to under-performing programs – so much so that poor performance becomes a rationale for additional resources."
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 9:00 am
By: Warren Smith
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Second District congresswoman Renee Ellmers hosted a town hall meeting in Pinehurst Tuesday night. And, of course, we were there with a camera rolling.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 12:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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During the mid-1700s, Edenton served as a major port, and Robert Carteret, the last of the Lords Proprietors and the Earl of Granville, requested that a grand house be designed for governmental business, including tax collection.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gone are the days when journalists reported only the “who, what, when, where, why and how” of a story, with opinions confined to the editorial page. All of us have biases and it is impossible for them not to influence everything we do.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 10:05 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Mr. Henry Arden “Artie” Stroud, age 66, a resident of 505 Telfair Street, Washington, NC died Monday, August 26, 2013 at the VA Medical Center in Durham.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 9:47 pm
By: Announcements
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"Game changer." "Reinventing our city." "Ensuring the future of our city." Lofty rhetoric for a performing arts center, but that's the way the majority of the Greensboro City Council views the proposed $60 million downtown performing arts center.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 9:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Do you know what happens in North Carolina if a government board, agency or commission refuses to obey the state's sunshine laws requiring open meetings and records? Absolutely nothing!
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 8:38 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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We read that the Mayor of San Diego was able to cut a deal whereby he would resign the office and the city will pick up the tab for any legal fees and financial judgments against him resulting from the numerous suits brought against him for sexual harassment.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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You've heard it from the Left. You've heard it from the press and on TV. It's all over the Internet. The Voter Suppression Act. Disenfranchised voters. One of the nation's most restrictive voter ID laws. Sweeping. Controversial. Restrictive. Fiercely contested. Assault on democracy.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new survey suggests that North Carolina teachers are leery of the implementation of Common Core standards, with nearly two-thirds favoring slowing down or halting the process.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:13 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory accepted the Center for Safer Schools 2013 Report from Department of Public Safety Secretary Frank L. Perry today.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Hyde Amendment has been a valuable tool in the fight against government-funding of abortion.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Wilma Bennett Woolard Moore, of Creek Road, Bath, age 83, heard her name whispered with clarity and brilliance, in the early morning hours of Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 12:42 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Frank “Ted” Bowen, 74, a resident of Washington, died Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 12:37 am
By: Announcements
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Individual health insurance premiums in North Carolina would spike as much as 80 percent on average due to the effects of Obamacare mandates if plans submitted by Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina receive federal approval as expected.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2013 @ 12:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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