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Civitas Action has released its annual Conservative Effectiveness Ranking of North Carolina state lawmakers for the 2013 legislative session. Scores suggest that the Senate was more conservative than the House last year, with more than half of the Senate members earning an "A", while no House...
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 4:31 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County Community College for the first time this fall will offer an online, eight-week course introductory course in its Early Childhood Education Program.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 3:54 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Mrs. Bessie Virginia Boston Hawks, 92, resident of 602 Mallard Creek Apartments in Aurora died Sunday, June 8, 2014.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:05 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Sue Linda "McCuller" Williams of Washington, NC died Monday June 9, 2014, at Vidant Medical Center Greenville, NC.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 11:58 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 2:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The small businesses already would be qualified for the 39 percent tax credit, spread out over seven years, on their investments.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The highway trust fund is running out of money and we need to do something to get the funding back up to a point where we will be able to maintain our Interstate highway system.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:24 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Last week Sens. Warren Daniel (R-Burke County), Jeff Tarte (R-Mecklenburg) and Ronald Rabin (R-Harnett County) filed a bill (SB 817) to change legislators' terms from two to four years. The bill also limits the number of consecutive terms that legislators could serve to four. (There currently are no
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Those of us who consider ourselves moderates are following our state's current events with interest and no small measure of amusement.
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 12:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Mary Jeanell Ward, 49, formerly of Washington, died on Monday, June 2, 2014 at her residence in New Bern.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 9:24 pm
By: Announcements
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Jonathan Alvarez, 14, passed away Friday, June 6, 2014.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 9:15 pm
By: Announcements
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John Michael "Mike " Pishnock Jr., of Bath, died Friday, June 6, 2014.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 9:13 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Gary Frank Kidney, Sr., age 67, a resident of 114 Tunstall Swamp Road, Aurora, NC died Tuesday June 10, 2014.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 9:06 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Tan "Dalton" Elks, age 80, a resident of Hodges Road, Chocowinity, died Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 8:22 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Douglas Lenard Brookins, age 78, a resident of 1580 Seed Tick Neck Rd., Pinetown, NC died Sunday June 8, 2014 at his home.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 8:18 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Wilbur Gray Harris, Jr., age 60, a resident of 4003 Long Ridge Rd.,Pinetown, NC died Monday June 9, 2014 at his home.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 8:06 pm
By: Announcements
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Audrey Windley Edmondson, age 96, a resident of Kill Devil Hills and formerly of Bayview, passed away Monday, June 9, 2014.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
By: Announcements
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Every field of study has its standard way of teaching it to students. Science is mostly taught through lectures and labs. Literature and philosophy are mostly taught through classroom discussion. And English composition is mostly taught through students writing essays and bringing them to class...
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The North Carolina Senate is preparing to finalize a bill approved last year by the state's House of Representatives mandating more universal health insurance coverage for autism services.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 7:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 6:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dare County real estate developer Ray Hollowell was counting on Dolly Parton and her family to help him transform the Pine Mountain development, located in southern Burke County, into a more upscale community that he renamed "The South Mountain Preserve." Hollowell also was counting on Gov. Bev...
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 5:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With more than 400,000 people expected to attend the U.S. Open in Pinehurst over the next two weeks, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is playing a significant role in assuring the health and well-being of visitors.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 5:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Here's a look at other BCCC events happening on campus and in the community
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 4:35 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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The controversy over who will make future appointments to the state Board of Review, which rules on appeals of unemployment board decisions, has gotten personal.
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 3:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It has been said, "No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session." That should be the guiding principle for all legislative sessions: convene, get the work done and go home. I think 2014's short session of the North Carolina General Assembly will be quick and to...
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 8:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The College of Nursing's reputation as a leader in simulation-based education played a role in bringing a statewide conference on simulation technology to East Carolina University in May.
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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An impatient Gov. Pat McCrory used his bully pulpit and a wall of white coats Wednesday to push for immediate legislative action on his administration's stalled proposal to run the state's Medicaid program using an Accountable Care Organization system operated by doctors and hospitals...
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Student Government Association Historian Elizabeth Cobb is already hard at work in her new role as a student leader.The Registrar's Office at Beaufort County Community College has released the honor roll for the 2014 Spring Semester.
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:45 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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With tens of thousands of golf enthusiasts descending on North Carolina over the next two weeks for the 2014 U.S. Open and the U.S. Women's Open, the state has worked hard to make sure they will have a great and unique experience.
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Efforts by the state's film industry to continue getting incentives from North Carolina taxpayers were revived Thursday when a Senate committee - and later the entire Senate - approved a new plan awarding grants to filmmakers.
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Have you been wondering why Eric Holder and his Justice Department has been too busy to investigate a lot of troublesome things going on in our Government or respond to congressional inquiries in any kind of reasonable time frame??
Published: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 7:12 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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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: Monday, June 9th, 2014 @ 5:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A 10-year partnership between the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory at East Carolina University and the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources was cause for celebration April 30 in Greenville.
Published: Sunday, June 8th, 2014 @ 10:35 pm
By: ECU News Services
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On June 6, 2014, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office arrested Shawn Duane Hogan, age 41, of 797 Cedar Village Road in Belhaven.
Published: Sunday, June 8th, 2014 @ 11:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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