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Trains are notoriously hard to slow down – even when we need them to.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV shows in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 12:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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With budget done, Medicaid and coal ash resolutions could wait
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 9:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On 07-31-2014, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Donnie Lee Little, 61 years of age, of 163 Martin Luther King Boulevard in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 9:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Please click on the link to access the agenda for the August 11, 2014 City Council meeting.
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 9:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Are teachers receiving a pay increase?
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Logan Roberson Jones, newborn son of George Roberson Jones and Lindsay Walters Jones of Chocowinity died and was born on Monday August 4, 2014 at Vidant Medical Center of Greenville.
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 11:11 am
By: Announcements
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Three new academic leaders have joined East Carolina University's Division of Academic Affairs.
Published: Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 @ 9:27 am
By: ECU News Services
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Attached for your reading please find the August edition of Campus Connections.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:53 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory issued Executive Order 62 to address the coal ash issue because comprehensive legislation has not been passed during the Short Session.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:48 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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A recent study concluded that North Carolina's $87 billion state pension fund is the second-best performing plan in the nation, even though new government-mandated accounting methods show it might be underfunded by more than $15 billion instead of operating in the black, as official state figures...
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Marion L. Shepard Cancer Center offers a variety of special programs and activities to help cancer patients, survivors as well as their primary caregivers deal with the emotional and physical challenges associated with having cancer.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Most sailors have a seasick story: This is mine.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 8:51 pm
By: Stanhope Deatherage
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East Carolina University’s first STEM to STEAM summer camp challenged 25 elementary to high school students to make connections between technology and art.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 4:47 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It is clear to any observer that the Federal government has grown to an untenable size, and that it has become increasingly more abusive of its powers.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 4:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Nancy Elizabeth Lupton Brame, 74, of Chocowinity, passed away on Friday, August 1, 2014.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Gertrude Kenlaw, of 825 N. Bridge St, Washington, died Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 1:51 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Patsy Winders Ginn, age 72, a resident of Hunters Glen, Washington, NC, passed away on Sunday, August 3, 2014 at her home.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 1:44 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Archie “Jay” Edmond Evans, Jr., age 73, a resident of 1639 South Asbury Church Road, Washington, NC died Sunday, August 3, 2014 at Vidant Medical Center of Greenville.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 1:42 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Joseph Frederick Rehm, Jr. age 88, a resident of 239 Clarks Neck Road, Washington, died Friday, August 1, 2014 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 1:39 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Donnie Mack Wynne, age 76, a resident of Washington, died Friday, August 1, 2014.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 1:36 pm
By: Announcements
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Ms. Rena Foster Tyer, age 62, a resident of 678 Old Pamlico Beach Road West, Belhaven, died Friday, August 1, 2014 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that he will sign the General Assembly’s $21 billion conference budget when it hits his desk, as the proposal is within the parameters he set out over the last several months.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The Division of Continuing Education at Beaufort County Community College will offer a course introducing computer users the Windows 7 operating system this fall.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:54 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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An iconic image in the propaganda war against hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is that of flammable tap water. Water you can light on fire. It is a calculated image to terrify.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several weeks ago Duke Energy presented a report about the potential use of the Chocowinity Industrial Park, and the fact that what we have there is a fabulous piece of business real estate that could attract many hundreds of new jobs.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
By: Keith D Kidwell
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For all its power and political connections, America’s higher education establishment can be very thin-skinned.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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What can I say??? It was entertaining / it was enlightening / it was comical / it was sad . . . I only have a page and I could write a book on the Beaufort County Council Meeting last night whose main topic was a possible new Law Enforcement Center.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:32 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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As North Carolina’s legislative session draws to a close and we enter the last quarter of the 2014 campaign, Democrats are hoping it will be a rerun of 1998. Republicans are hoping that it will be a rerun of 2010.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 11:40 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: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 8:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Kay Hagan thinks businesses should be mandated to provide PAID leave to employees to deal with family concerns like childbirth or sick children.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 8:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Senate adopted the conference committee report for H1224 (Local Sales Tax Options/Econ. Devpt. Changes) Thursday night. This bill would grant more flexibility to counties in the use of existing sales tax authority.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 7:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory signed legislation today which provides increased health care options for those needing medical care at their own homes.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 7:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Auditor Beth Wood has chided the Department of Health and Human Services for dragging its feet in gaining federal certification for its NCTracks Medicaid information system, an omission that could cost the state $9.6 million a year.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 7:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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