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The event's featured speaker, however, was none other than Glenn Beck, who delivered a riveting speech outlining exactly what is at stake in the government's concerted scheme to shut down political opposition.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 3:42 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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A shooting spree by a deranged individual, clad in some body army and with a rifle slung over his shoulder, has wrought a scene of roving chaos.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 2:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I got my first lesson in competition when I was a 12-year-old first baseman on a softball team. For years I'd been the only girl able to snag wild throws...
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hardly a day goes by without the publication of articles on the plight of recent college graduates. Large numbers are either unemployed or employed in jobs that don't call for any academic preparation. Many are struggling with the burden of their college loans.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory called on North Carolina's education leaders to increase their production of community college and university graduates as well as devise more innovative methods to increase teacher pay.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 4:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The improvement of transportation in the 20th century made possible successful textile and furniture factories, prompting many to leave the family farm to take jobs at the mill.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 4:28 am
By: Tom Campbell
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It appears our state's legacy media is STILL in the tank for Bill Barber's circus on Jones Street. Tuesday's offering from WTVD was absolutely nausea-inducing.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 4:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The most likely outcome of tax reform negotiations in the North Carolina General Assembly is a plan that would lead to average annual state revenue growth of 3.2 percent to 3.9 percent. That's a key finding in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 11:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On June 17th, 2013 at approximately 5:41 pm, Deputies were dispatched to the report of a disorderly subject at a residence on Wells Avenue in Washington, NC.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 11:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Health officials and guests cut the ribbon today on the new James and Connie Maynard Children's Hospital at Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 11:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Judith Brooks "Judy" Council, age 61, a resident of 5593 Terra Ceia Road, Pantego, NC died Tuesday June 18, 2013 at her home.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 4:24 pm
By: Announcements
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Liberal groups in and outside the state seem to be spending sleepless nights worried about the fate of judicial-election changes North Carolina adopted in 2002.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 12:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After reading House Bill 976, the Gun Safety Act, it becomes hard to believe that Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein and Andrew Cuomo are nowhere to be found roaming the halls of the North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 11:35 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Novamelt Americas will expand its manufacturing facility in Randolph County.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 9:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today I did something that broke my heart; I lowered the American flag in my back yard and put it back up upside down. This is the legal way to display the National Colors when your situation has become untenable.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 8:58 am
By: George H. Schryer
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The Department of Health and Human Services is taking an "unbelievably risky" approach to activating a nearly half-billion-dollar, high-powered Medicaid computer...
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 12:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mark Clinkscales has been named the new principal of Northeast Elementary School in Beaufort County. Clinkscales, who has been with Beaufort County Schools since 2007, has served as the assistant principal of Chocowinity Middle School since July 2009.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 @ 12:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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What if I were to coax you into accepting a loan with money I stole from you? You'd probably call the police and have me arrested as a thief and a con artist.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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During the week of April 16, 2013, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Division attempted a routine residence check of a registered sex offender at a residence on River Road in Blounts Creek, NC.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 8:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Judith Brooks “Judy” Council, 61, a resident of 5593 Terra Ceia Road, Pantego, died Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at her home.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 2:56 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. William Moore, of 250 W. 131st St., New York, N.Y., died Monday, June 17, 2013.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 2:55 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Thomas Jurnal "Tommy" Simpkins, age 84, a resident of Dixon Rd., Chocowinity, NC died Monday June 17, 2013 at River Trace Nursing Center of Washington, NC.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 2:54 pm
By: Announcements
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Life, the old saying goes, is best thought of as a journey, not a destination. When it comes to reforming North Carolina's tax code, however, I'd say the reverse is true. The journey may have been messy over the past few months, as state lawmakers and policy analysts pitched and debated various...
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that IOMAX USA, Inc. will be expanding its aircraft and integration operation in Iredell County.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2009, the folks at Wikileaks posted a bunch of hacked emails from The Climate Research Unit at The University of East Anglia - at the time, the world leader in global warming research.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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If the University of North Carolina can't protect its students from violent crime, at least it should let students protect themselves
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Harvard president Larry Summers quickly became a former Harvard president after he made the mistake of offering some accurate but politically incorrect observations about women and math. Paul Tudor Jones, a billionaire hedge fund manager, large donor, and University of Virginia trustee...
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 1:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I am sure that America's ongoing nightmare will continue, unabated, with the community-organizer-in-chief navigating America into the dank, dark corners of a despondent national psyche of complete, and utter helplessness.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 12:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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During the June 18 meeting, the Beaufort County Board of Education voted to relax the student dress code forthe 2013‐2014 school year.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 10:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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What's left of our state's mainstream media has sunk to an all-time low with their coverage of this Moral Monday silliness on Jones Street. We're getting a lot of dictation.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 2:45 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement today in response to the News & Observer article on the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center on Saturday's front page.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 2:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recent media reports have suggested that the protesters disrupting the General Assembly at “Moral Mondays” represent a cross-section of North Carolina citizens.
Published: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 @ 2:03 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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