Last September, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $3.3 million in grants for papers on the subject of federal student aid programs--specifically, how we should "reimagine" student aid. The papers were recently released, but there wasn't anything very imaginative in them.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
By: George Leef
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We have been entrusted by you, the taxpayers of our state, to make fiscally and legally responsible decisions that are in the best interests of all North Carolinians.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013 is the deadline for comments about the proposed rules, including ferry tax amounts, addressed to the NC Dept. of Transportation.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 6:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Jeffrey Allen Jones, 51, a resident 137 Holloman St., Washington, died Monday, March 25, 2013, in Greensboro.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 6:12 pm
By: Announcements
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James Burton Carney, age 55, a resident of Chocowinity, NC died Friday, March 22, 2013.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 6:03 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Jessie Holliday died Tuesday, March 26, 2013, at Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 5:53 pm
By: Announcements
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Third grade students in Betsy Hodges' class at John C. Tayloe School have been learning what it is like to run a business. They have been discussing "supply" and "demand" and the importance of both.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 5:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Jack ReVelle knows how close Wayne County and much of eastern North Carolina came to being transformed by a mushroom cloud into a radioactive wasteland.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 3:51 pm
By: ECU News Services
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State senator Thom Goolsby's (R-Wilmington) bill to repeal the grossly-misnamed Racial Justice Act has cleared its first hurdle.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 3:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Imagine that the first-term governor of your state declined to seek reelection. In the interim between the election of his successor and his leaving office, this lame-duck governor sought to use the power of his office to make a last-minute real estate deal.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 3:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory named top leaders in the North Carolina Department of Public Safety's law enforcement division, including the Colonel of the State Highway Patrol, the Director of Alcohol Law Enforcement and the State Capitol Police Chief.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 3:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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March Madness is the moniker given the NCAA basketball tournament championship, but this year in North Carolina it is taking on new meaning. Seems like everyone is mad about something.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 2:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Seven students have been chosen by the Beaufort County Community College Foundation to represent BCCC as Ambassadors for 2013-2014.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina taxpayers would receive a tax relief refund when state revenues exceed 5 percent of budgeted amounts under a state constitutional amendment proposed by Rep. John Blust, R-Guilford.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 10:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate Committee on Judiciary I is meeting this morning about SB 306. SB 306 would repeal the Racial Justice Act and lift the moratorium on the Death Penalty here in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Three Vidant Health hospitals have been included among the top hospitals in the state by Business North Carolina magazine.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 8:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On March 26, 2013, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Derek Wayne Wallace, age 33, of 8373 NC Hwy 99 N in Pantego.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 8:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory unveiled his proposal for the state's biennial budget on March 20. The University of North Carolina system received a small cut compared to the previous biennium, and the budget also specifies changes that should cut waste and expand key initiatives.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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A deputy to state treasurer Janet Cowell is warning that efforts to take Charlotte Douglas International Airport away from the City of Charlotte and have it run by a new regional authority could have negative consequences on the state's borrowing power.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 6:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 5:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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James Burton Carney, age 55, a resident of Chocowinity, NC died Friday, March 22, 2013.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 2:17 pm
By: Announcements
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Gov. Pat McCrory recommends no tax increase in his first budget plan, a stark contrast to the most recent proposals from predecessor Beverly Perdue.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that XPO Logistics, a company that provides freight management, expedited transportation and freight forwarding services, will expand its national operations center in Mecklenburg County.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 1:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mitt Romney was absolutely right when he noted in a fundraiser that 47% of the people would never vote for him. These are the entitled who never heard what JFK asked Americans to do but care only about what the government can do for them.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 10:58 am
By: Alicia Colon
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Mr. George Allen "Red" Marshburn, age 71, a resident of 278 Woodstock Rd., Belhaven, died Monday, March 25, 2013 at Vidant Pungo Hospital.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 10:00 am
By: Announcements
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This week’s “Bad Bill of the Week” is House Bill 188, Early Voting on Weekends.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 9:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On March 19, 2013, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Gary Wayne Clark, age 52, of 515 W 2nd St. in Washington and Christine Moore Woolard, age 56, of 631 Ball Rd. in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 9:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Crowds gathered in a Greene County field March 23 to observe the official dedication of a monument commemorating the deadly 1713 battle between colonists and the Tuscarora Nation at Fort Nooherooka. The dedication was among several days of events...
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 9:02 am
By: ECU News Services
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A bill currently before the state House, H.B. 298, introduced by Rep. Mike Hager, would eliminate North Carolina's renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) -- a state mandate that requires electric utilities to provide 7.5 percent of their power from renewable energy sources...
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Officials from Vidant Medical Center and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University cut the ribbon yesterday on a new hybrid operating room.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The new James B. Hunt Library at North Carolina State on the new Centennial Campus has been heralded as one of the finest college libraries in the nation -- "the plugged-in library of the future," according to one Scientific American blogger.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:02 pm
By: Jay Schalin
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The economy MUST be fixed. The nimrods in the mainstream media are going on and on about the oral arguments on gay marriage at The U.S. Supreme Court -- as though the world's survival hangs in the balance.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 9:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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