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It's getting pretty clear that Tea Party-affiliated groups and voters are warming up to Cary physician Greg Brannon and his campaign for the GOP nomination for US Senate.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 11:49 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mrs. Lori Briley Gaskins, age 50, a resident of 15 Farmville Ave., Washington, NC died Sunday August 18, 2013 at Vidant Medical Center of Greenville.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 10:17 pm
By: Announcements
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Out-of-state college students wishing to vote in North Carolina elections should find it relatively easy to get a state-issued photo identification card that will be necessary to cast a ballot under the new voter ID system.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 6:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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SNI (Symbiotic Networks, Inc.) had to build our product before we could market it, and now that time is drawing nigh.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In today's quarrels over politicized instruction, it is always assumed that eschewing ideological bias is pedagogically possible. That is, a professor, regardless of personal ideology, can instruct objectively. Yes, that's wonderful in principle, but perhaps no longer possible. Some professors...
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 4:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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With a wink and a nod, the left-wing media continues to help push the deceptive agenda of the teachers union (NCAE) in the Tar Heel State. It is readily apparent that neither the NCAE nor the media support real educational reform in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 4:38 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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Recently, the RNC (Republican National Committee) joined the others, like me, your humble publisher of Beaufort County NOW, to denounce the irrepressible in-your-face media bias that is currently rampant in the OMG, leaving many of us to ask: What took you so long?
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 4:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With the passage of HB 589 VIVA/Election Reform, the North Carolina legislature has produced the first comprehensive updating of our election laws in several decades.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Political debates about education policy are so contentious that consensus may seem forever out of reach. Yet here's something that virtually everyone agrees is true: academic achievement reflects more than just the value added by teachers, administrators, textbooks, and technology...
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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An East Carolina University professor examined his own family members and the stigmas they face while analyzing a growing trend in America: multiracial and multiethnic families and individuals.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 1:54 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It's a sad statement about the current state of public education when the person responsible for administering our local school system has such a poor grasp on reality.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 10:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Commercial restrictions through tariffs have been an integral part of American history. The federal government has used forms of commercial restriction as a source of revenue and to protect American industry and labor.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 12:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Fred Casper Hollis, age 88, a resident of 79 Hollis Drive, Chocowinity, died Saturday, August 17, 2013 at his home.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 9:33 pm
By: Announcements
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McClatchy Rob is just beside himself. According to his headline today, college students are going to have to work harder. (To vote, that is.) *Apparently, working harder is a bad thing, these days.*
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 5:54 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Tomatoes that don't rot for more than a year, fish with glow-in-the-dark blood vessels, sunscreen made from watermelons, and super-cancer-fighting broccoli: those are but a few of the...
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 5:04 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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James Theodore (J.T.) Tetterton peacefully passed on to join his wife and parents in the embrace of the Lord in the early morning hours of Friday, August 16, 2013.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 11:02 am
By: Announcements
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Terry Flanagan passed peacefully from this life on August 14, 2013 surrounded by friends and family at the Hospice home of Wake County.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 10:52 am
By: Announcements
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House Republicans Thursday unveiled their tax modification plan, a move that would eliminate the progressive income tax rate in favor of a flat tax.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 10:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For all those who scream, "There is no voter fraud in North Carolina!" the silence was deafening after the latest revelation from the State Board of Elections (SBOE) regarding online voter registration during the 2012 election season.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 9:23 am
By: Thom Goolsby
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When someone threatens you, protect yourself. The whole notion sounds imminently fair and reasonable - until someone actually does threaten you and you do protect yourself.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 9:18 am
By: Jim Bispo
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During the investigation, Deputies learned that the offender had not stayed in the shelter since August 10th. On August 15th, Deputies located the sex offender walking on West 5th Street in Washington and arrested him.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 1:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University welcomed 80 new medical students today.
Published: Sunday, August 18th, 2013 @ 1:06 am
By: ECU News Services
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Mrs. Mary Z. Ward, age 98, a former resident of the Thurman Griffin Road, Williamston, died Saturday, August 17, 2013 at the Windsor House in Windsor.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 9:52 pm
By: Announcements
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Alma Beaman Clark, age 85, a resident of Ridgewood Manor, Washington, NC passed away to be with her Lord, Saturday, August 17, 2013 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 9:42 pm
By: Announcements
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It pains me to even come close to being on the same side of an issue with Chris Fitzsimon and the gang.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 8:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Here below is the latest poll from Civitas, and I find it interesting because of its subject matter - the battleground issue of energy. We all use it, just some of us don't quite understand the economic ramifications at any of the levels of it economic necessity to continue without serious disrupti
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 1:41 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When you drive over uneven pavement or hit a pothole on a North Carolina road, you might wonder whether drivers in other states face better or worse driving conditions. Dr. David Hartgen of The Hartgen Group, emeritus professor of transportation studies at the University of North Carolina at...
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 12:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos, M.D., joined leaders of East Carolina University in Greenville today to announce the details of a statewide telepsychiatry plan.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 12:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of Elections was notified on Tuesday, August 13th, of the passing of Commissioner and Candidate Don Wilkinson of the Town of Washington Park.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 12:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Sissipahaw and Occaneechi lived and inhabited what is present-day Wake County, and English and Scotch-Irish settlers from northern states moved into the area during the seventeenth century.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 11:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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James Earl “JE” Boyd, Jr., 57, passed away Thursday, August 15, 2013.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 10:07 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Garfield Street Jr., of 3511 Wharton Station Road, Washington, died Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, at home.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 10:02 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Michael DeBob Hamilton, 29, a resident of 3062 H.C. Highway 33 East, Chocowinity, died Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 9:56 am
By: Announcements
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