I know Gov. Pat McCrory and the Republican leadership at the General Assembly are inundated at the moment. There's no lack of people offering policy advice or pleading for their cause or group. Why should I be different?
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 11:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor McCrory announced the following direct appointments.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 11:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Members of the board of directors of Vidant Medical Center announced new members and officers at a meeting today.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 10:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When reporting on Blueprint NC's leaked documents, WRAL was all over the story, with one exception: It somehow failed to mention in any of its stories that the owners of the station are deeply entangled with the left-wing group and some of its allies.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 10:55 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Investigators conducted a search of the vehicle after K-9 Elza alerted on the vehicle for the presence of an odor of a controlled substance.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 12:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We welcome the John William Pope Center for Education Policy to our growing readership, and expect our readers to learn all they can to do their part in this wise endeavor to better educate our People.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Do you take vitamins? For many if not most people, it's a good idea. It ensures that even if you don't always maintain a varied and healthful diet, your body gets the baseline level of nutrients.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 @ 4:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's been fun watching all of the sputtering and posturing about the strategy memo reportedly circulated by the leadership of a lefty group calling itself BluePrintNC.
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 @ 4:23 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A merit pay system for teachers, changes to teacher tenure, tax credits for private school tuition, and new charter school initiatives are among education reform measures that could be passed in the state House of Representatives in the next few weeks, House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg...
Published: Tuesday, February 26th, 2013 @ 2:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dale Cole, Principal of Chocowinity Middle School, got the news he had been named Region 1 Principal of the Year during a Beaufort County Schools Leadership Team Meeting Monday morning.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 11:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina surgeon and physician groups are squaring off against hospitals in a regulatory reform battle with potentially hundreds of millions of taxpayer and insurance dollars at stake.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 11:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On December 31, 2012, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a Breaking and Entering and Larceny that occurred at Terra Ceia Christian School in Pantego, NC.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 10:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"In North Carolina, we are making tough decisions and setting clear priorities to fix our economy and make government more efficient and effective. We ask our leaders in Washington D.C. to do the same."
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 10:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Republican Precinct Committee meetings will be held this coming Tuesday in the Beaufort County Court house with doors opening at 6:00 pm.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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BCCC celebrates Black History Month with songs, speeches, testimonials Over 200 people celebrated Black History Month at Beaufort County Community College on Monday, Feb. 18, in an event highlighted by children*s songs and an inspirational speech by noted author Columbus Copeland.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 12:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Known as the Youth Skin Cancer Prevention Act, HB 18 would require all North Carolinians under 18 years of age to have a written prescription from a doctor in order to use a tanning bed, essentially banning all minors from indoor tanning.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 11:39 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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East Carolina University is moving forward with plans to build two new student centers - one on main campus and one on the health sciences campus - to provide socializing space for a larger student body and to better meet student organization needs.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 11:06 am
By: ECU News Services
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Mrs. Mamie Bass Harrison, age 104, a resident of Ridgewood Manor Nursing Center of Washington died Saturday February 23, 2013.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 12:20 am
By: Announcements
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Change is inevitable; whether it will come from deliberate policy changes or as an inevitable collapse remains to be seen.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 12:08 am
By: Jay Schalin
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Well, every year groups from the ADA to the ACU to National Journal to The Club For Growth release ideological rankings of the 535 voting members of Congress.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 9:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina conservatives have embraced parental choice and competition as indispensable elements of education reform for decades. Now that conservatives are in the majority in state government, you can expect more proposals to...
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 8:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The next Pope will have to be vigorous and healthy because the church is at war. It has always been at war against the forces of evil and totalitarianism and has been instrumental in the failures of socialism.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
By: Alicia Colon
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Most North Carolinians believe the Civil Rights Movement occurred strictly in the 1960s, with the start of the Sit-Ins at the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 4:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mira Grace Loughlin was born February 6th, 2013 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Announcements
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There are three things you need to keep in mind to understand how you can make a difference in the Republican Party.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 10:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Marjorie J. "Bunny" Manning, age 73, a resident of 108 Landon Drive, Washington, NC died Friday, February 22, 2013 at her home.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 10:24 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Lynn Elaine Leedom Muse, age 63, a resident of 481 Taylor Road, Chocowinity, NC passed away on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at her home.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 10:07 am
By: Announcements
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Charlotte and Mecklenburg County have had it rough. Charlotte got the -- ahem -- privilege of hosting the Low-Information Traveling Circus (a/k/a the DNC) this past year.
Published: Sunday, February 24th, 2013 @ 10:00 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The U.S. Supreme Court case known as Citizens United has had a major impact on American politics in recent years. Will the high court's decision in that case stand in the years ahead? John Samples, director of the Center for...
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 9:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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