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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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