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I worked on Capitol Hill for the late Senator Jesse Helms during his early-90s campaign to defund The National Endowment For The Arts.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 9:37 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The people DownEast, specifically in the eastern portions of Beaufort County north of the Pamlico River and those in Hyde County are being faced with a double whammy - the loss of the inpatient facility at Pungo Hospital in Belhaven and the loss of a reported 127 jobs.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 8:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Common Core is a national effort, powered by private interests and the federal government, to impose untested academic content standards for English language arts and mathematics on all K-12 public schools across the nation.
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 6:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Republican Gov. Pat McCrory took it on the chin twice this week as the General Assembly, controlled by his fellow Republicans, voted to override the only two vetoes stamped by the first-year governor.
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 3:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor McCrory announced the following direct appointments today,
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 3:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Vidant Pungo Hospital Board of Directors voted today to move forward with plans to build a new 24/7 multispecialty care clinic in Belhaven. The plans also include a phased closing of Vidant Pungo Hospital to take place over the next five to six months.
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 2:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last night, the UNC Student Congress voted to affirm the finance committee's cut of the UNC College Republican's funding for the fall semester. UNC College Republicans received $3,090 - a 75% cut from last year's funding.
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 2:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. David Thomas “Tommy” Sparrow, age 92, a resident of Washington, NC died Tuesday September 3, 2013 at his home.
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 1:55 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. John Joseph Harper Mallison, age 60, a resident of Washington, NC died Sunday, September 1, 2013 at his home.
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 1:46 am
By: Announcements
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The labor market for college professors has long been distorted. Tenure is a major factor; another is the presence of a massive labor supply glut, in the form of too many aspiring faculty members for too few full-time jobs. In some ways, the faculty labor market now resembles the market for...
Published: Thursday, September 5th, 2013 @ 1:24 am
By: John William Pope Center
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There’s a great piece over at Forbes talking about how The White House is considering expanding the subsidies in ObamaCare to include not just the uninsured but ALSO UNION MEMBERS.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that idX Impressions will be expanding its manufacturing operations in Beaufort County.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 3:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Susie Sharp, the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Symbiotic Networks (SNI) has nearly completed the next strategic phase of our Symbiotic Publisher CMS (Content Management System), which will enhance our ability help our clients better market themselves and their products, now seeks capable personnel to help us attain that next level.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 9:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In the classroom, nothing beats a good teacher. Abundant research affirms teacher quality as the most significant in-school predictor of student achievement. Teachers know they have the power to leave a profound imprint on the minds of students; for many, this core belief shapes their choice of...
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 5:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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To know your Constitution - questions for Constitution Day (to learn about the Constitution).
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We've heard ad nauseum from Big Bill Barber, his non-working, loitering rabble, and their comrades in the mainstream media about how Republicans in Raleigh are "starving education."
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 4:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. David Thomas “Tommy” Sparrow, age 92, a resident of Washington, NC died Tuesday September 3, 2013 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 3:49 am
By: Announcements
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Carol Ann Owens Bowen born November 26, 1940 passed away September 1, 2013.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 3:33 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Morinaga, a leading international confectionary company, will locate a new facility in Orange County.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 5:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Institute of Medicine's Task Force on Early Childhood Obesity Prevention, which has spent the last two years brainstorming new policy ideas to decrease obesity in children, soon may go beyond school cafeterias and private child care facilities and take its programs right...
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Carl "Rafe" Jones, age 29, a resident of Goldsboro, NC passed away Saturday, August 31, 2013 at his home.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 10:48 am
By: Announcements
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Eric Holder says it; Colin Powell says it: every NAACP "preacher" in the country says it: every Dem in the countryside says it.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 6:55 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Yet, anarchist group, UNControllables, and feminist group, Siren Magazine received more funding and less cuts than the College Republicans. UNControllables were allocated $4,005 and Siren Magazine was allocated $5,157.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 6:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ms. Beatrice “Bea” Williams of 123 E. Martin Luther King Drive, Washington, NC died Sunday September 1, 2013 at Vidant Medical Center. The family will receive friends at the home. Arrangements will be announced by Leon Randolph Funeral Home 208 West MLK Jr. Drive. Washington NC.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 6:13 am
By: Announcements
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In late May, my husband and I welcomed our first child, Edward James Robinson. We're calling him Ned. After the first few weeks of sleepless nights and a very steep learning curve, the hospital bills came. They're only the first of many expenses involved in raising a child - and they're chump...
Published: Monday, September 2nd, 2013 @ 12:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Part of my job involves commissioning, reading, interpreting, and writing about public policy research. As I began researching my 2012 book on North Carolina's economy, Our Best Foot Forward, I found myself reading or re-reading dozens of scholarly studies, published in academic or professional...
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Rufus Blount of Washington, N.C. died Friday, August 30, 2013 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital, Washington
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 10:22 pm
By: Announcements
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The Supreme Propagandist at The N&O, John Drescher, says Gov. Pat called him and his colleagues DUMB this week. Really? Let's look at what McCrory said:
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 5:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Life is devalued by the section of the healthcare bill which sets up the IPAB (Independent Payment Advisory Board).
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 11:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Due to North Carolina's rich resource of both mountains and beaches, tourists and vacationers, as well as medical patients have visited the state for vacation and for well-being.
Published: Sunday, September 1st, 2013 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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