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When the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released its first comprehensive review of education programs in 2013, many K-12 education reformers were enthusiastic. Prominent news coverage and support from school superintendents called attention to the need to improve teacher preparation.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 1:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Vidant Health implemented a new cancer care-navigation model to help provide high quality cancer care locally and regionally.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 1:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker participated in the grand opening of a new Wake County NCWorks Career Center this morning. This latest career center joins others in offering programs that help employers find qualified workers and people find jobs and training programs.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 1:16 pm
By: Chris Downey
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I know my editors will appreciate it, but I promise I'm not pandering when I say this: advertising gets results. Although academic scolds and professional worrywarts have been complaining about advertising ever since it was invented, the truth is that when institutions spend money effectively to...
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 10:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the last two weeks, those of us who have publically offered that the states, rather than federal circuit and district courts, have the constitutional authority to make decisions on marriage have been met with derision by liberals.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 9:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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With the November elections just around the corner, late night television comedians are cranking up the political jokes. How far public opinion might swayed by the humor targeting politicians is the subject of a new book by East Carolina University political science professors Jody Baumgartner and J
Published: Monday, October 27th, 2014 @ 2:29 pm
By: ECU News Services
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Published: Monday, October 27th, 2014 @ 1:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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First-term Republican state Sen. Chad Barefoot is relying on his conservative credentials to win against Democratic challenger Sarah Crawford in a race judged to be competitive by the North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation.
Published: Monday, October 27th, 2014 @ 1:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) is expanding its operations in Lenoir County. The company plans to create 18 new jobs and invest $30 million over the next three years in Kinston.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 7:14 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The race in state Senate District 1 was a toss-up in 2012, and it is once again as Republican incumbent Sen. Bill Cook and former Sen. Stan White square off again.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 4:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The terms have been tossed around for many years. It seems the frequency and fury attached in this election year is turning them into missiles of hate and revenge.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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It is my pleasure to accept the endorsement from the North Carolina Troopers Association (NCTA).
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 1:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is home to a thriving and growing wine industry. Consumers support the industry every time they buy a bottle of North Carolina wine.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 12:53 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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It tells a gripping story. The 131-page report by Kenneth L. Wainstein and his colleagues peels back 18 years of scandalous secrecy at UNC-Chapel Hill to reveal that between 1993 and 2011, more than 3,100 students took "paper classes."
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 12:12 am
By: John William Pope Center
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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: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 12:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's expanded polar bear exhibit was unveiled today at the N.C. Zoo in Asheboro. Governor Pat McCrory was on hand to unveil the three-years-in-the-making, $8.5 million exhibit.
Published: Saturday, October 25th, 2014 @ 11:22 pm
By: Chris Downey
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From a report filed early Saturday by WRAL-TV news, we have confirmation that a cluster of businesses owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan's husband and other family members collected even more subsidies from taxpayers than initially reported. While Carolina Journal's Don Carrington has...
Published: Saturday, October 25th, 2014 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ernest Milton Bright, age 77, a resident of New Bern, NC, passed away Thursday, October 23, 2014.
Published: Saturday, October 25th, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Peggy Taylor Batchelor, age 82, of Washington, died October 20, 2014 following a brief illness.
Published: Saturday, October 25th, 2014 @ 9:14 pm
By: Announcements
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Jimmy Carraway Hardison II, age 22, of Washington and Raleigh left this earthly world to meet his Lord on October 22, 2014.
Published: Saturday, October 25th, 2014 @ 9:08 pm
By: Announcements
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Ernest Milton Bright, age 77, a resident of New Bern, NC died Thursday, October 23, 2014.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 4:43 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Timothy Peele of 7202 Terra Ceia Rd, Pantego, NC died Monday, October 20, 2014 at Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 4:26 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Mr. Ralph Watson Elks, age 90, a resident of 756 Elks Road, Chocowinity, died Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at his home.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 4:00 pm
By: Announcements
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At least two North Carolina magistrates have resigned rather than perform same-sex marriages, citing conflicts with their religious beliefs.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 2:42 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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One-stop early voting begins Thursday at 367 sites across North Carolina, the most sites ever offered during a midterm election.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 11:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger Thom Tillis looks like it's about to become the most expensive statewide race in North Carolina history.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you've been paying attention to the media, you've been told numerous times from opponents of North Carolina's Marriage Amendment that the fight is over, and that they have won.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County Community College announces its registration schedule for Spring Semester which is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:35 am
By: Judy Jennette
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It hasn't been long ago when Hamas in the Gaza Strip was bombarding Israel mercilessly with their rockets - not terribly effectively, but mercilessly.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:28 am
By: Jim Bispo
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This video speaks of Minimum Wage as a destroyer of the work force.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:15 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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After first agreeing to allow Carolina Journal to inspect the documents relating to a taxpayer-funded U.S. Department of Agriculture energy grant to a company owned by family members of U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, the USDA Rural Development office in Raleigh later said the matter was being handled in...
Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 @ 9:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's expanded polar bear exhibit was unveiled today at the N.C. Zoo in Asheboro. Governor Pat McCrory was on hand to unveil the three-years-in-the-making, $8.5 million exhibit. The governor was joined by Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary John Skvarla and Zoo...
Published: Thursday, October 23rd, 2014 @ 9:28 pm
By: Chris Downey
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