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Today was a "red letter day" in North Carolina. The N. C. Senate passed S 129, a bill entitled "Limit State Facilities Finance Act." The vote was 47 for and 1 against. It was co-sponsored by Bill Cook, along with 5 other senators.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 6:21 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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The youth in the Rev. Richard Joyner’s church in Conetoe already are health ambassadors, growing vegetables and teaching neighbors about healthy lifestyles.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 5:41 pm
By: ECU News Services
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If there was a national prize for rhetorical incoherence, one could find several excellent nominations among the ranks of North Carolina politicians and political commentators.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This story is a tangled mess that recently made national news. But it belongs to a large genre, familiar to the first author from his years as dean of Harvard College.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 4:27 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Senator Josh Stein (D-Wake) and the Crayon Corps at McClatchy-Raleigh are really, really peeved at Sen. Bill Rabon (R-Brunswick.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 4:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The state House today will consider a bill that would make it easier for North Carolina citizens to challenge tax laws in court.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 4:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Community College Foundation on Tuesday, April 30, brought together about 75 of its donors, scholarship recipients, members of its Board of Directors and local business women and men who have supported Foundation events through the years at a Legacy Luncheon.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 2:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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South Carolina legislators have passed a law making it a crime for anyone in The Palmetto State to enforce the implementation of ObamaCare
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 12:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Monday will be a big day for constitutional rights at the General Assembly. H 937 is on the calendar for a floor debate and vote.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 11:51 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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The "Team Glo" at Beaufort County Health Department raised over $2,500 to support Relay for Life. Here below we have a picture of the team, and please click the image to expand to 1000 pixels side.
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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, May 6, 2013
Published: Monday, May 6th, 2013 @ 10:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Representative Paul Tine, a freshman in the minority from Dare County, is taking on the Governor's new transportation plan.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 11:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you can get beyond the horribly dated technology and the occasional lapse into hippie-inspired silliness, the classic late-1960s libertarian-themed television
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 7:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Vidant Beaufort Hospital and Vidant Medical Center have earned Quality Respiratory Care Recognition (QRCR) under a national program aimed at helping patients and families make informed decisions about the quality of the respiratory care services available in hospitals.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 7:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Hard as it may be to believe at the moment, given all the news and chatter coming out of Jones Street, the 2013 session of the North Carolina General Assembly is about to enter its final phase.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Robert Otha Burton passed away peaceably (after two strokes) March 23, 2013.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
By: Announcements
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The governing board of the N.C. Community College System recognized Beaufort County Community College's Academic Excellence Award winner at a ceremony held recently on the BCCC campus.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The one clear thing that came out of last week's chaotic activity in Boston, Massachusetts is that real reporters were missing. For that matter, they've been missing since last year's attack in Benghazi.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 11:58 am
By: Alicia Colon
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Yep. I find that hard to believe, as well. We've documented the story about mentally-handicapped people being hauled to the polls on election day to "cast votes."
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 11:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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To what degree does your country respect and encourage the freedom to be generous? That's the question examined in a new pilot study from the Hudson Institute's Center for Global Prosperity.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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They say that time flies when you are having fun. And so it has been with my relationship with the Beaufort Observer. It has been interesting; it has been positive; and it has been enjoyable.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 11:15 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Mrs. Frances M. Harris Gray, formerly of Sladesville Credle Road, Scranton, N.C., died Thursday, May 2, 2013, at the Bishop Henry D. Hucles Episcopal Nursing Home, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 10:59 am
By: Announcements
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Patricia Ann Beacham Scherer, age 66, a resident of Clarks Neck Rd., Washington, NC died Friday, May 3, 2013.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: Announcements
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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, May 9, 2013.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 10:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Doris Boyd Mills of 278 Cherry Run Road, Washington, died Saturday, May 4, 2013, at her residence.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 9:50 am
By: Announcements
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The fourth annual Founders Day and University Awards Celebration recognized "the best of East Carolina University" on May 1 in Hendrix Theatre.
Published: Sunday, May 5th, 2013 @ 9:18 am
By: ECU News Services
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This week, the North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians (NCAFP) launched a public awareness and petition campaign called "Our NC Health Care."
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 3:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On May 2, 2013, Deputies with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office served arrest warrants on James Deverone Sadler, age 32, of 100 Camel Drive in Washington.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 3:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Big Barry has nominated two guys -- who happen to be liberal black Democrats, like himself -- from North Carolina for important jobs in Washington.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 1:43 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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"People generally quarrel," G.K. Chesterton once wryly observed, "because they cannot argue."
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 1:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mayor Archie Jennings and the City Council for the City of Washington announced the appointment of Brian Alligood to the position of City Manager for the City of Washington, North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 1:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I started my college experience while working full-time as a systems/network administrator in Anchorage, Alaska, where I was born and raised. This came about because, while in high school, I developed an interest in building and programming computers. I became skilled enough to...
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Beaufort County Community College is holding a seminar to help small businesses understand and secure financing. See the poster below for the details:
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 10:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gamblers on a losing streak often resort to desperately making riskier bets to try to make up for their previous losses - a move that rarely pays off and which usually leaves them even poorer.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2013 @ 7:29 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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