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With the U.S. Women’s Open beginning this week, the state of North Carolina has developed a video presentation that highlights the coordinated efforts of several state agencies in preparation for the events.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:04 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Come join Tayloe's Hospital Pharmacy and Washington Harbor District Alliance as we turn Main Street, between Gladden and Market, into an outdoor music festival!
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 3:18 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Linda Rose Dennis, age 67, a resident of Bahama, NC died Tuesday June 17, 2014 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice of Greenville while surrounded by her family.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 1:51 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Allene Leggett Tenequer, 93, died Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at River Trace Nursing & Rehabilitation Center of Washington, NC.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 10:32 am
By: Announcements
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North Carolina remains in dire economic times. Unemployment is hiding at 9.4 percent, one of the worst in the nation.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 10:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A lot of dollars are riding on how many courses professors in the University of North Carolina system teach (or how many they are perceived to teach). Roughly half of the UNC budget consists of professors' salaries.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I am now 68 and have enough life experience to comment with a degree of wisdom. After a long journey with intelligentsia, Augustine says something simple and real to me: “Almighty God, himself supremely good, would never allow anything evil to invade his works, unless he were so almighty and so good
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:49 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Imagine the important things in your life: your spouse, your home, your favorite football team. What do they all have in common? You were able to choose them, not have them assigned to you by the political class.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 12:27 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County Community College will hold three orientation sessions Tuesday, June 24, to help newly-enrolled students become familiar with the campus and college policies.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 12:01 am
By: Judy Jennette
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Wilmington-area legislators and movie industry types are pretty mad. It looks like incentives for the film industry are not going to survive the state House. These folks REALLY thought they were going to keep getting these goodies. And for good reason.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina’s unemployment insurance debt to the federal government has dropped from more than $2.5 billion to $980 million during the past 18 months.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 10:48 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology are topics fraught with peril – not because of some inherent conceptual flaw, but because of superficiality and wishful thinking.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 8:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Helping students with learning differences succeed at the college level was the focus of a recent conference that drew more than 170 educators and students to East Carolina University.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 8:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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We keep hearing that things being done by the Anointed One and his administration are "not legal".
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 6:51 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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In February, I published a column titled, "Data Do Not Reflect Claims of Teacher Dissatisfaction," which pointed out that state and national data disagree with those who claim that the teaching profession is increasingly constrained and unhappy.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit assisted Officers with the Department of Community Corrections in arresting Antonio Joe Daniels, age 27, of 101 Oscar Lane in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Richelieu Legwear International Inc.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Mrs. Mary Bullock Hawkins, 81, resident of 169 Reed Road in Chocowinity died Thursday, June 12, 2014.
Published: Tuesday, June 17th, 2014 @ 11:09 am
By: Announcements
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This week, Moral Monday took an interesting turn; instead of ending in arrests, the evening ended with a civil discussion and an eerie march through the State Legislative Building.
Published: Monday, June 16th, 2014 @ 8:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When the school year winds down and children are released for the summer, their thoughts may turn to lazy days filled with television and video games. But spending the summer that way could lead to a decline in physical fitness, said ECU kinesiology professor Grace Anne Vick, director of the...
Published: Monday, June 16th, 2014 @ 8:09 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It would seem that the Anointed One's Chief Skin Merchant, (Eric Holder - in case you were wondering) doesn't like the way North Carolina wants to run its elections.
Published: Monday, June 16th, 2014 @ 6:42 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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On June 11, several experts and agencies testified to the House Committee about the impacts of the Clean Water Act
Published: Monday, June 16th, 2014 @ 4:20 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Members of the Beaufort County Community Foundation's first international travel group posed for a photograph in the train station at Salisbury, England, during their recent trip.
Published: Monday, June 16th, 2014 @ 10:21 am
By: Judy Jennette
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Governor Pat McCrory met with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officials today to request funding for North Carolina’s initiative to provide Wi-Fi access to every K – 12 classroom in the state.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 11:22 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The annual teacher turnover report produced by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction shows the number of public schoolteachers who've left their jobs across the state during the past year.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The August 24, 1587 baptism of Virginia Dare, the first English born Christian in the New World. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 1:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Technological changes have a way of creating new possibilities, but also new problems. Cell phones have evolved to the point where they can be used to make excellent audio and visual reproductions of events. That can be beneficial, as for example when cell phone video can prove whether a person...
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 3:30 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The State Employees Association of North Carolina could receive significant monetary awards if it prevailed in a whistleblower complaint against those investing the state pension fund's money.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the North Carolina House passed a budget amendment to expand the definition of dealer in the Animal Welfare Section to include commercial dogs breeders who have 10 or more female dogs.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 3:22 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Two members of the Beaufort County Community College Board of Trustees recently took the oath of office signifying their reappointment to the board.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 3:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Where can budget writers find savings to help fund priorities such as teacher raises? That’s a question on everyone’s mind these days.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:58 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I am an advocate of getting local property tax in line with actual values for which it might sell. Right now, Realtors tell me their average sale is 70% of appraised value.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:57 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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A move is afoot on Jones Street to consolidate state law enforcement in the executive branch.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 2:44 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Walton Prentiss "Bud" O'Neal, Jr., age 72, a resident of 442 E. Water Street, Belhaven died Thursday evening June 12, 2014 at his home.
Published: Saturday, June 14th, 2014 @ 10:30 pm
By: Announcements
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