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Every time a new study comes out regarding the "payoff" from college, I wonder: Will this finally be the one that takes note of widespread underemployment among recent grads and comprehends the impact of credential inflation?
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The past electoral successes of the two candidates running in the Republican primary for the 26th District of the N.C. House of Representatives could not be more different.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 6:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Cambro Manufacturing Company is locating its North Carolina manufacturing operations in Alamance County.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 6:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Washington, NC is the same as Washington, DC when it comes to making bad decisions, dirty dealing and subverting the State and Federal Constitutions.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 5:52 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Three Republican candidates are battling for their party's nomination to succeed Democrat Mike McIntyre as North Carolina's 7th District Congressman. McIntyre, who held the job for nine two-year terms, chose not to seek re-election this year. He won his race two years ago by just...
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Jack Clayton, a resident of Beaufort County, passed away on April 18, 2014.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 1:23 pm
By: Announcements
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Martin "Marty" Cooper was the Motorola engineer who spearheaded the development of an invention that most Americans cannot live without -- the handheld mobile phone.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I don't blame Thom Tillis for refusing to attend one of the three televised GOP Senate primary debates. The only mystery is why he (or any candidate) is bothering with any of them.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 12:59 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Undergraduate students across the country are vying for the chance to spend this summer conducting research in biomedical engineering at East Carolina University - a new program funded by a $287,949 grant from the National Science Foundation.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 12:58 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Mrs. Earline D. Ward of 441 Belhaven Square, Belhaven NC, died Friday, April 18, 2013, at her home.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 12:36 pm
By: Announcements
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Liberal activists may fume, and left-wing editorialists may grind their teeth, but legislative leaders are going to defend energetically their 2013 opportunity scholarship bill against lawsuits by the teacher union and other special interests.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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CenturyLink recently contributed $500 to the campaign mounted by the Beaufort County Community College Foundation to build a digital sign at the front of the campus along U.S. Highway 264.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced a plan today that would address coal ash ponds and strengthen environmental and health regulations.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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ECU professor Alex Albright is continuing his quest to right an historical wrong suffered by a group of Greensboro college students who played an important role in integrating the armed forces during World War II.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:38 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Republican primary for House District 94, which includes all of Alleghany County and most of Wilkes County, features two candidates with political experience and who should be familiar to Wilkes Countians.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I just read this most interesting account of the growth of women as pastors in Baptist churches.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:11 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Senatorial Candidates will speak with 30 min for audience questions. Most all LOCAL Republican candidates for Sherriff, Commissioner, etc. will also speak.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 11:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A surprising number of college and university presidents depart unexpectedly or face turmoil that nearly ends their tenure as president. Within the past six months, leaders of Illinois State, St. Augustine's, the University of Wyoming, Tuskegee University, Howard University, and SUNY-Upstate...
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 3:27 pm
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: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remarks made by an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court at a Democratic Party fund-raising dinner, as well as her membership in a private organization, raise serious questions about her possible bias against the state's new voter ID law.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 2:45 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:54 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Accountable care organizations that are the cornerstone of the state's Medicaid reform plan are "HMOs on steroids," one national expert says, and they face certain opposition in the state Senate.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Just try to implement some kind of frugality in public education budgets. You'll get all kinds of teeth-gnashing, wailing and crying about starving tha lil' chil'ren.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Concert at the Turnage Theater - fundraiser for Donald Dixon for sheriff.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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One of East Carolina University's fastest-growing colleges has added engineering to its name, reflecting an increasing emphasis on that program.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 11:44 am
By: ECU News Services
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he U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed that North Carolina successfully met requirements to reduce the number of pending food stamp applications and recertifications.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 11:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory used the deadline for filing income tax returns to tout the historic tax reform package that he signed into law last year.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Plan now to join the BCCC Foundation for the 11th Annual Cutthroat Croquet Tournament to be held Saturday, May 17, along the waterfront in Bath beginning at 9 a.m. with a buffet luncheon catered by Chef Paul Cyr to be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 8:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Following an event celebrating the historic tax reform that was enacted in July of 2013, Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement on Tax Day
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 12:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Gladys Hines of 101 Fort Drive, Washington, died Tuesday, April 15, 2013, at her home.
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 11:48 pm
By: Announcements
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The weather is getting warmer, the plants are in bloom, and people are starting to spend more time outside. Yes, it's springtime, and as we get more comfortable with the season change, one thing continues to put a damper on things - tax day. April 15 arrived today, but do you know exactly...
Published: Thursday, April 17th, 2014 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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