The Obama administration has been implementing new ways to measure economic activity in the United States.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On 08-13-2014, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Carlos Jayshawn Rome, 39 years of age, of 1053 Railroad Street in Belhaven.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Exhausted legislators finally saw the closing gavel and heard the fat lady sing the "sine die," followed quickly by the Hallelujah chorus striking up the perennial tune, "There has to be a better way to run a state."
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 6:29 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Perfect is the enemy of good. I don't know who coined that phrase, but whoever it was, certainly got it right.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 6:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Jewel Marie Greer Triplett, age 80, a resident of Blounts Creek, died Sunday, August 24, 2014 at Service League of Greenville Inpatient Hospice.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 5:24 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Robert Fredrick “Tommy” Elks, age 78, a resident of Chocowinity, NC died Friday August 22, 2014 at Vidant Medical Center of Greenville.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 5:09 pm
By: Announcements
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If you listen to the drive-by media or the zombies and trolls following Bill Barber around, you’d think North Carolina state government was now a shoe-string operation.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 12:30 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Honors College students put East Carolina University's motto 'servire' - to serve - into action Aug. 22, spending their first day on campus helping the community.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 12:10 am
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory is encouraging high school students to apply for the Governor's Page Program.
Published: Monday, August 25th, 2014 @ 12:04 am
By: Christopher Maye
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North Carolina state government is spending more money per person this budget year than ever before. A new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report documents that fact, which gets lost in ongoing debates about state budget "cuts."
Published: Sunday, August 24th, 2014 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has appointed Special Superior Court Judge Lisa Bell to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Published: Sunday, August 24th, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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College of The Albemarle in Elizabeth City will present the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first production of the 2014/15 Performing Arts Center season.
Published: Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 @ 7:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It seems like a lifetime ago, but remember the euphoria when Baghdad fell in early 2003?
Published: Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Members of the Governor's Teacher Advisory Committee presented nine major recommendations on testing standards and assessments to Governor Pat McCrory today at a meeting at the Executive Mansion.
Published: Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 @ 3:58 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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We posted earlier about how new regulations on the use of unmanned drone aircraft in North Carolina *magically* appeared amid an appropriations bill that passed the state Senate.
Published: Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 @ 3:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Christopher “Chris” Lodge of Charles Hubert Lodge and the late Barbara Lodge, of 945 Magnolia School Rd., Washington, died Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 at Greenville Inpatient Hospice, Greenville.
Published: Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 @ 3:16 pm
By: Announcements
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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, August 23rd, 2014 @ 12:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's marvelous book Thinking, Fast and Slow, he distinguishes between what he calls our brain's "System 1" and "System 2."
Published: Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 @ 12:45 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Cascades Tissue Group will open a new manufacturing facility in Scotland County.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 9:10 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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For many years, state education and political leaders promised increasing our "investment" in public schools was the key to raising student achievement for disadvantaged students.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and the state of North Carolina have been selected for a nationally recognized program that will support its efforts to strengthen the state's workforce.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 6:08 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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The move Thursday by a Wake County Superior Court judge to strike down the state's fledgling Opportunity Scholarships program is seen as a short-term setback by supporters of the private tuition vouchers.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 6:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"The Ice Bucket Challenge" formed a major trend last week in social media, raising donations in viral amounts for the ALS Association
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 6:05 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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We usually try to keep our focus on events related to The Carolinas, but the circus in Ferguson, Missouri has us stepping out from those parameters.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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If you have to get advice on how to be safe taking selfies or need to be reminded not to publicly display material which you don't want public, you are stupid and should be placed in a zoo as "a rare species who was able to survive natural selection even though they shouldn't have.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
By: ECU News Services
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As Republicans continue to portray Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan as joined at the hip to an unpopular President Obama, and with congressional approval ratings in the ditch, the freshman senator’s best campaign strategy is to avoid national issues, political observers say.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory applauded a new report issued by the Commission on Workforce Development that shows North Carolina can narrow the skills gap by increasing direct collaboration between critical industries and the state's job training programs.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:09 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Tropical Storm system could form into a Tropical Depression or Storm by this time Monday Morning.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Think you know the answer to this question? I thought they represented the business interests of the City of Washington and the surrounding community with an occasional foray into Beaufort County business interests.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:00 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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The annual high school equivalency Assessment Day at Beaufort County Community College drew a record number of attendees on Wednesday, Aug. 20, with over 78 people from BCCC's service area attending the event. Fifty-five people attended last year.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 9:39 am
By: Judy Jennette
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