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N.C. counties entered into incentives contracts totaling nearly $284 million from 2009 to 2014, according to a first-of-its-kind John Locke Foundation Policy Report compiling statewide local incentives data. The report shows actual incentives payments totaled $144 million over the same five-year per
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 2:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed House Bill 59 into law which gives immediate protection to victims of domestic violence who seek emergency protective orders.
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 1:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Same girl as in the Guess Who is coming to Dinner but my turn to turn the tables
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 5:18 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Sen. Ted Cruz criticizes Sen. Maj. Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for telling a flat-out lie about Export-Import Bank
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 5:10 am
By: Diane Rufino
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We understand — thanks to very good sources in the Raleigh area — that feelers are being put out by political pros to test former NCDOT secretary (and Army general) Tony Tata as a potential GOP primary candidate against congresswoman Renee Ellmers.
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 4:17 am
By: Brant Clifton
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While we're heading down the dangerous slippery slope of government-sponsored censorship surrounding the display of the Confederate flag and certain Civil War generals and other historical figures, we should also be demanding that certain other statues be taken down
Published: Saturday, August 1st, 2015 @ 12:26 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The N&O issued a tearful goodbye this morning to the "education judge." SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEECH! (The what?):
Published: Saturday, August 1st, 2015 @ 9:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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With the economic collapse of the last decade brought on largely due to the bursting of the housing bubble, does anybody still think it a good idea for government to encourage investments in "underserved" populations
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Department of Public Safety (DPS) Secretary Frank L. Perry and State Budget Director Lee Roberts met with Moore County leaders today to highlight the public safety improvements included in Governor Pat McCrory's Connect NC bond proposal.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 10:02 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Is it just me or have we come to a time when people can say anything they want with no sense of remorse of concern for others?
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Homeschooling reached a milestone in North Carolina in the 2014-15 school year. The number of students enrolled in homeschools in the state topped 100,000
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new audit shows that the agency that spent $29 million training blind North Carolinians to operate snack bars had no way of tracking whether the program actually helped those blind operators.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted in favor of legislation that would require congressional approval of federal rules that impose significant burdens on the American economy. H.R. 427.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 6:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 1:25 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The John Locke Foundation recently commemorated the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta (Latin for “Great Charter”).
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 10:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Each year, dozens of students at Beaufort County Community College benefit from scholarships offered by the BCCC Foundation, but it does much more.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:47 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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Sixty-two campers in kindergarten through 10th grade are taking part in the East Carolina University School of Art and Design's STEM to STEAM Summer Camp held July 27-31.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: ECU News Services
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In recent weeks, conservative legal scholar Kurt Lash and libertarian legal scholar Damon Root have treated readers to a lively online debate about how best to interpret Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which reads
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 1:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Senate passed a six-year highway bill that includes provisions previously introduced by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC)
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 12:46 am
By: Thom Tillis
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Azucena Warren beat breast cancer in 1998, following treatment at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center in Greenville.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:52 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It sounds like something out of one of The Godfather movies, or the final days of Nixon. But the reports we're getting make that headline look like a real possibility.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:50 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory is offering rewards of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible in two seperate murder cases.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:17 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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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: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled in Board of Regents v. Southworth that using mandatory student fees to fund student organizations and speakers does not violate the First Amendment rights of those who disagree with the content.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Vidant Health is committed to enhancing the quality of life for the people and communities it serves, touches, and supports
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:26 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 3:39 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Think food, hula hooping, dancing, and lots of family fun. National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and public camaraderie to make our cities safer, better places to live
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 3:37 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Joseph E. Hofmann, age 89, a resident of Washington, NC passed away on July 29, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington, NC.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 11:05 am
By: Announcements
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Today, the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee held a hearing regarding the persistent homeless veterans population that continues to plague 40,000-45,000 of the men and women who served our nation in honor.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 10:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mainstream media accounts missed the mark when treating recent Wake County school board campaigns as fights pitting supporters of diversity against supporters of neighborhood schools, or longtime residents versus newcomers from out of state, or north Raleigh and western Wake County residents against
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 9:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This is a resolution to propose that Article I, Section 4 be removed from the NC state constitution, in part to acknowledge that the federal government unconstitutionally required the provision and in part to reassert state soverignty
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The N.C. Supreme Court gave a boost to school choice efforts on Thursday by declaring that the state's fledgling Opportunity Scholarships Program met constitutional muster.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the Tea Party era, the Tenth Amendment to The US Constitution has been getting some much needed attention.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:22 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Let's take a giant leap into the present of 2015 and see what we have on religious society.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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