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Shortly after the first Thanksgiving early settlers started migrating west in search of cheaper, less crowded and more available land. Ironically, today's cheaper, less crowded and open land is more often found in the rural east and far western sections early settlers left.
Published: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 @ 12:34 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The federal government is steadily becoming more antagonistic and repugnant to the People.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 9:13 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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If you have someone on your Christmas list who is hard to shop for but likes to pursue new interests then how about giving them the gift of learning?
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 7:31 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Indiana Jones made it look cool to be an archaeologist. What's not cool, however, is for the State of North Carolina to force taxpayers to subsidize an office that attempts to centrally oversee the archaeological projects across the state.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 6:12 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Original documents are much more valuable than textbooks when it comes to teaching students about key issues in American history.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 3:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Beaufort County Community College Association of Nursing Students is sponsoring a Blood Drive 3 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Building 12 on the BCCC campus.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 3:01 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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But turning the ship of higher education around is a herculean task (we at the Pope Center are engaged in the same enterprise-ACTA's president, Anne Neal, serves on our academic advisory council-so we know). Furthermore, the context of the university is changing in unpredictable ways.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In January, Pat McCrory will begin his third year as Governor, but his first chance to fully develop a biennial budget that reflects his priorities.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 2:18 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The North Carolina Supreme Court is likely to decide the "tremendously important" separation-of-powers lawsuit filed by Gov. Pat McCrory against General Assembly leaders over appointive powers to legislatively created commissions, former Justice Bob Orr says.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 1:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With his apologist foreign policy in tatters, more Americans beheaded and slaughtered abroad, Amateur Obama will force his political hand in Washington, DC on Thursday night, November 20, 2014, by blaming the Republicans in the United States House as America's number one enemy.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 1:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Seven students at Beaufort County Community College have been awarded a scholarship established by the State Employees' Credit Union Foundation to fund studies by those in short-term training programs.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 12:32 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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I have always enjoyed film reviews ... well some of them. Obviously our readers do too.
Published: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014 @ 6:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It appears the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) have been providing free office space for years to the local branch of an organization with close ties to state and national, politically-active teacher unions.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 10:54 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The HIV Program operated out of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is outpacing peer programs nationwide in keeping patients healthier and limiting the spread of HIV.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 10:48 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Robeson County reduced the workweeks for 367 part-time employees and capped them at 25 hours weekly to avoid higher health insurance costs associated with mandates in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointment to the Golden L.E.A.F. Board today...
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 9:17 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In 2012, a UNC-Chapel Hill freshman with a blood level of alcohol nearly three times the legal limit was found dead. Winston Crisp, vice chancellor for student affairs, saw this as indicative of a nationwide problem-one he has been working to address since then.
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 9:15 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When visitors are considering spending money in your town, they go first to their phones and tablets – which draw from online directories – to make their decision. Is your business ready to be found? You can get ready with these 3 information-packed hours delivering valuable tips and...
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 5:36 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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About to retire, Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn, M.D., has just released his 107-page 2014 Wastebook, a tabloid-type listing of over a hundred wasteful government-funded projects. Coburn continues the tradition of the late William Proxmire, the Wisconsin senator who, more modestly, chose just...
Published: Monday, December 1st, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Mrs. Thelma Olsen Prentiss Bergh, age 97 a resident of Washington, NC died Sunday November 30, 2014 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Center of Washington.
Published: Sunday, November 30th, 2014 @ 5:16 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Thelma Olsen Prentiss Bergh, age 97 a resident of Washington, NC died Sunday November 30, 2014 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Center of Washington.
Published: Sunday, November 30th, 2014 @ 5:12 pm
By: Announcements
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If he's not careful, Gov. Pat McCrory may be on course to have a "Pence problem" in 2015. In the days immediately following the mid-term elections, Gov. Pat McCrory insisted that - in spite of his party maintaining strong supermajority status in both houses of the General Assembly...
Published: Sunday, November 30th, 2014 @ 4:32 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Last night my wife and I went to see a movie. It was a very popular movie and we were required to wait our turn in a long line to purchase our tickets. After purchasing our tickets we proceeded through the metal detector to ensure we were not carrying weapons.
Published: Sunday, November 30th, 2014 @ 4:30 pm
By: Doc Halliday
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Beaufort County, here in Eastern North Carolina, is sparsely populated county that is deceptively lovely if you know where to look.
Published: Sunday, November 30th, 2014 @ 8:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 5:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University researchers are in the second year of a long-range alcohol consumption study aimed at helping students make safer choices.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 2:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The holiday season is upon us and I hope all of our students, faculty, staff and community supporters have a safe and happy Thanksgiving. As we take time to give thanks for our blessings, I hope we will remember what a blessing Beaufort County Community College is for the people in our community...
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 2:34 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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A rightward shift. That's how two sources - who both had votes in today's leadership vote - described the final results to me.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Already socked with rising premium costs due to Obamacare, Southern Elevator has delayed planned growth and job creation as it contemplates up to $800,000 in added annual health insurance costs a year from now, when employer mandates for medium-size businesses kick in.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born in Wilmington on December 29, 1915, Robert Chester Ruark was known as the "poor man's Hemingway" and he became one of North Carolina's most prominent twentieth-century writers.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lena Rivers Bennett Carter, 95, formerly of Gatesville, and more recently of Commonwealth Assisted Living in Kilmarnock, VA, died Thursday, November 27, 2014.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 2:55 am
By: Announcements
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Cherie Berry is in all of our elevators, but apparently she's not in the hearts of the proletariat in The N&O newsroom.
Published: Friday, November 28th, 2014 @ 9:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As part of her effort make healthy eating look cool, First Lady Michelle Obama recently posted of short video of herself dancing to a hip-hop song with a turnip in hand.
Published: Friday, November 28th, 2014 @ 9:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory has proclaimed Saturday, November 29, 2014 as "Small Business Saturday," encouraging North Carolinians to celebrate small businesses and the valuable contributions they make to the economy.
Published: Friday, November 28th, 2014 @ 8:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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