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A Wake County Superior Court judge Monday refused to dismiss legal challenges to the state's Opportunity Scholarships, aka vouchers, meaning that the lawsuit is likely to go to trial. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood issued Monday's ruling after allowing the Institute for Justice, an Arlington...
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 3:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that $500,000 from the Office of State Budget and Management's Repair and Renovation Contingency Reserve has been allocated to the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA, the state's World War II memorial, to repair its hull.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 3:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Get out your calendars and schedules!! We have three learning opportunities next week with knowlegeable and insightful presenters.
Published: Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 @ 3:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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RALEIGH - Shut out of formal power in the state capital for the first time in more than a century, North Carolina Democrats hope that 2014 will mark the beginning of a steady climb back to legislative majorities and the Governor's Mansion by 2016.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2014 @ 1:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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During his ten minute testimony, Forest expressed his belief that the Common Core standards roll out in NC represents a long term danger to local control of education decisions in our school systems.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2014 @ 1:12 pm
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: Friday, February 21st, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We’ve got record unemployment, a tanking economy, terrorism, an out-of-control lawless southern border, and ObamaCare gutting the vibrancy and spirit of America.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2014 @ 12:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Department of Cultural Resources will commemorate the legacy of what were known as "Rosenwald Schools" Thursday, February 20 at 7 p.m in the Walnut Building of Wayne Community College in Goldsboro.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ashley Woolard for NC House District 6 on the Republican ticket and Harry Meredith for Sheriff on the Republican ticket.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 11:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Juliette Flowers, 71, formerly of Washington, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, at Riverside Hospital, Newport News, Va.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 10:45 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Ernest Andrew Martin, 70, resident of Ridgewood Manor Nursing Home, formerly of 817 Minor Run Road, Edward, died Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 10:44 pm
By: Announcements
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Charlie Lee Rowe, age 78, a resident of Pine Ln., Washington, NC, passed away Thursday, February 20, 2014 at his home.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 10:41 pm
By: Announcements
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The Guilford County Board of Education voted unanimously to take legal action so that it would not have to comply with state law eliminating tenure, or "career status," for K-12 public school teachers.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 6:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Politicians don't get to choose the crises they face while in office but they can choose how they will react to them. Their responses often determine both their tenure in office and how history judges them.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tickets now on sale for Taste the Good Life in Little Washington! Don't miss it.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 5:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a recent piece published by American Enterprise Institute, "Let's Not Underestimate Undermatch," author Awilda Rodriguez outlines what she views as a serious problem, undermatching. She describes it as "the phenomenon where students do not attend a college or university that they could have gaine
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 5:44 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When you talk about end-of-life wishes, you are truly giving your family members of a gift of understanding that will bring them peace in years to come.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 12:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Registration is under way for those interested in enrolling in the Commercial Truck Driver Training Program at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 10:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ralph Sherwood Linton, age 67, a resident of the Terra Ceia Community of Pantego died Monday February 17, 2014 at Vidant Pungo Hospital.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 2:08 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Nancy Dorcas Warren Roberson, age 94, a former resident of Tunstall Swamp Road, Edward, died Monday, February 17, 2014 at Carolina East Medical Center in New Bern.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 2:04 am
By: Announcements
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Why does the Left oppose school choice? It can't be because they oppose tax dollars going to private, even faith-based institutions. For decades, state and federal subsidies have flowed to private colleges and universities, including sectarian institutions. For decades, Medicare and Medicaid...
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I thought we beat the issue of tolling ferries in Eastern North Carolina about a year ago. At that time there were meetings, newspaper articles, threats of political doom, and a lot of dancing by politicians.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:52 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Harris Teeter started out as two independent grocery stores. In 1939, Willis L. Teeter and his brother Paul opened Teeters Food Mart in Mooresville with a $1,7000 loan.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that BuzziSpace, Inc. will locate its North American manufacturing headquarters in Guilford County.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Having authored more than one optimist's lament in recent years, I am clearly of the opinion that, generally speaking, things are better than they seem - and getting better all the time.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the letter (attached), the USDA acknowledges the significant progress the state has made toward reducing the remaining outstanding cases.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I don't know about you, but the 1970s is a decade I'd like to forget. For those of you too young to remember, Google these terms: gas lines, Iran hostage crisis, Watergate, inflation, price controls, DISCO.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:04 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Researchers at East Carolina University will spend another year studying the causes of Gulf War illness and medicines that might be able to treat it.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 10:52 am
By: ECU News Services
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When the Mill Pond project was first publicly announced in October, our number one objective was to see that the two affected communities had laws providing adequate protections to citizens, local businesses, the military, and the environment.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 9:32 am
By: John Droz, Jr.
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The Division of Continuing Education at Beaufort County Community College will host a workshop that will help local businesses, including agriculture-based businesses, learn more about doing business internationally.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 9:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest is scheduled to attend the opening of nominations for HelpingAHero.org's Home for a Wounded Warrior at McKee Homes in Fayetteville on February 19 at 10:30am.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 9:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The races for only 7 percent of state legislative seats - and no congressional districts - are likely to be competitive this year, say two organizations tracking North Carolina voting trends.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 8:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A meeting of the Washington City Council will meet, Monday, February 24, 2014, at 5:30 pm, to discuss a number of actions listed here within.
Published: Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 @ 8:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On February 13, 2014, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Ralph Lee Moore, age 60, of 1500 Horsepen Swamp Road in Washington.
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 @ 6:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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