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We are all familiar with famous huge errors in economics, such as those of Karl Marx, errors that ultimately create vast human suffering.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) holds its "School's Out" rally, the Civitas Institute puts the spotlight on the gulf between teacher's salaries and NCAE executives' salaries.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Once again, Lee Chevrolet is sponsoring a fun-filled day on the waterfront for July 4th celebration culminating with the City of Washington's Firework display.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 8:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I know you've been there. It's time for supper and you have neither the time nor the supplies to cook. So you and your family members or friends all pile in to the car to head out to a restaurant.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Whether you turn first toward the family, friends, government, nonprofit groups, or business to solve society’s largest problems, you might find some interest in the latest work from William Eggers.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 8:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Vidant thought their "problem child" would go away quietly, never to be seen or heard from again, that was not the case last week in Hyde County, nor will it be next year.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 5:23 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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House Speaker Thom Tillis and Gov. Pat McCrory had a big media event yesterday. They were touting the idea of separating education from the rest of the budget and passing the education part FIRST.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 3:16 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A memorial service for Lula Angela Credle of 226 E. 3rd St., Washington will be held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at LR Randolph Funeral Home Chapel, 208 W. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Washington.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 3:11 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Charles Lee Toler, Jr. age 68, a resident of New Bern, NC died Saturday June 28, 2014 at Carolina East Medical Center of New Bern.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 2:50 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Earl R. Jordan, age 71 a resident of Washington, NC died Saturday June 28, 2014 at his home.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 2:41 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Effie Mae Cooper McNall, age 69, a resident of Pantego, NC died Friday June 27, 2014 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice of Greenville.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 2:20 pm
By: Announcements
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Doris Hodges Stocks, age 80, a resident of Rosedale, Washington, NC, passed away Monday, June 23, 2014 at her home.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 1:58 pm
By: Announcements
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North Carolina state budget writers would have more flexibility to fund teacher pay raises, address Medicaid cost overruns, create jobs, and generate a surplus, if they adopt a budget technique identified in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With $2 billion in cost overruns the past four years, Medicaid continues to be North Carolina’s most volatile political conundrum, and now unanswered questions about its spending and growth threaten to delay passage of 2014-15 state budget adjustments before next Monday’s deadline.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's Civitas Institute does our state's preeminent rating of the legislature, analyzing the key bills and then looking at the voting records of each legislator on those bills as to whether they are liberal or conservative.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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The Ormond Amphitheatre is opening its doors to once again host The Promised Land - the epic true tale of a North Carolina family whose search for freedom spans generations and miles - from fighting in the Revolutionary War to traveling across America in the pursuit of religious freedom.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:34 am
By: Chris Downey
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Twenty-five middle and high school students from Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton and Wilson counties took a field trip to East Carolina University on June 18 as part of their week-long math and science camp.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:30 am
By: ECU News Services
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As promised, I shall provide an update, but there is no news at this point other than for me to state, or re-state what is obvious as to the state of the county's financial health.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week's Bad Bill of the Week involves state legislators trying yet again to interject themselves into the voluntary association between employee and employer.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Mention Duke and UNC in the same breath and almost everyone thinks about intense rivalry. While that’s true in sports, it is not true in academics.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I was having a decent morning yesterday until I saw the latest television ad by Senate Majority PAC, the same outfit that disseminated ridiculous claims about North Carolina's tax reforms.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Jerry Tillman (R-Randolph), that chamber's majority whip and leading voice on education policy, has stepped up in defense of Core legislation he shepherded through the Senate.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 7:16 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory has appointed Louis A. Bledsoe III as a Special Superior Court Judge, for a term beginning July 1, 2014.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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State Rep. Michael Wray, a Democrat from Gaston who serves as deputy minority leader in the state House of Representatives, owes more than $100,000 in past-due federal, state, and local taxes, according to public records on file in Northampton and Halifax Counties.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) is calling for the immediate release of U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Paul Tahmooressi from Mexico, where he has been imprisoned for the possession of firearms that he legally owned in Texas and that were registered to him.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 5:28 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Mrs. Eva Mae Harrell Barrington, 97, went to hug Jesus on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice in Greenville.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 12:35 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Nellie I. Martin of 305 Harvey Hamlet Road, Washington died Monday June 23, 2014, at home.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 12:30 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Warrie Louise Pearson of New York, formerly of 724 Morning Star Road, Pantego died Thursday, June 24, 2014.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 12:26 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Ida Mae Gaskins Wright, 64, resident of 1112 Vesper Lane in Fayetteville, formerly of Chocowinity died Thursday, June 19, 2014.Mrs. Ida Mae Gaskins Wright, 64, resident of 1112 Vesper Lane in Fayetteville, formerly of Chocowinity died Thursday, June 19, 2014.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 12:23 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. James Thomas Danish, 66, a resident of the Cypress Landing Community of Chocowinity, NC, died Thursday, June 26, 2014.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 12:16 pm
By: Announcements
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North Carolina's second case of chikungunya was confirmed today in an Alamance County resident who recently traveled to the Caribbean.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 9:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory and the GOP-led state legislature are at odds over the budget, Medicaid reform, Common Core, and other issues.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 8:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three East Carolina University professors begin their terms as officers for the university’s Faculty Senate on July 1.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: ECU News Services
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The notification letter from Vidant Pungo Hospital President Harvey Case was short and to the point.
Published: Friday, June 27th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: Betty Murphy
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