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On this variation of the "Chicken or the Egg" Conundrum, it is a most appropriate question to ask.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 8:10 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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In response to a request from Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) and the Dare County Board of Commissioners, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has agreed to hold an additional public scoping meeting on the Outer Banks.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 7:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It has taken some 2 months to get there, but I finally got a first-hand look at our basement jail which has been the source of much discussion in recent months.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 7:46 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Proving yet again that corporate welfare is a bipartisan problem, four Republican legislators last week introduced House Bill 117, NC Competes Act. The primary sponsors of the bill are Reps. Susan Martin (R-Wilson), Charles Jeter (R-Mecklenburg), Jeff Collins (R-Nash) and Bob Steinburg...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 7:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Pat McCrory announced during his March 2 visit to the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University that his budget will allocate $16 million over the next two years to stabilize the financial challenges at the Brody School of Medicine.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 7:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before a joint session of Congress, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) issued the following statement
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lovers of socialized medicine are quick to point out that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn't have some form of universal government run, i.e., single payer, health care system. While this may be true, the US system of health care payment and delivery does...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On February 23 around 9 am Washington Police responded to an armed robbery of Washington Coins and Pawn located at 828 Washington Plaza.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 1:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, last week accused committee Democrats of an "attempt to silence" the John Locke Foundation - and 106 other organizations that have expressed skepticism over apocalyptic claims of the role of human...
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 12:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Taste the Good Life tickets are on sale now at the Chamber of Commerce/Visitor Center.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced he is co-sponsoring the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2015, authored by Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), which enhances Congressional oversight of the Obama Administration’s negotiations with Iran.
Published: Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015 @ 12:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory, chairman of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Governors Coalition, announced today Governor Bill Walker (AK-I) has become the newest member of coalition.
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 @ 9:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It can be very difficult to grasp or visualize the vastness of the network of left-wing groups in North Carolina. But one way to start is with the key group on the left, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation - and the family that dominates it.
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 @ 5:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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If you want money from the Department of Homeland Security, you will need to start keeping track of the immigration status of suspects you arrest.
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 @ 5:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Mike Jackson, age 63, a resident of East Eighth Street, Washington, died Sunday, March 1, 2015 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 @ 5:38 am
By: Announcements
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Allen F Padgett, 67, a resident of 3451 Harvey Road, Washington, died Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at Emmanuel Free Will Baptist Church in Washington.
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 @ 5:37 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Claudette "Sue" Ware Crosby, age 80, of Washington, NC passed away Saturday morning, February 28, 2015.
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 @ 5:32 am
By: Announcements
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Thomas F. Mantz, age 85, a resident of River Road, Washington, NC died Friday, February 27, 2015.
Published: Monday, March 2nd, 2015 @ 5:27 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory has declared March 2 - 6, 2015 as Students@Work Week across North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 5:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Over the past four years, state policymakers in Raleigh have adopted a series of sweeping changes in public policy, including a new state tax code, school choice, new energy policies, election laws, and historic reforms of the regulatory process. Some North Carolinians have welcomed these...
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 4:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today's pop music is predicated upon the lowest common denominator of the human experiment. There is little that is uplifting, no building upon the art of the past, just make money, and lots of it, paid by the dimmest bulbs of all time.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 4:12 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Most United States governors have completed their annual State of the State and inauguration speeches, which included the outlines of their education priorities. They covered many trending topics such as the Common Core, early childhood education, and Career Technical Education (CTE), the latter of
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 10:11 am
By: Chris Downey
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When the N.C. Department of Public Instruction released school performance grades earlier this month, public school advocacy groups noted that the grades reflected the socio-economic makeup of the schools. They observed that schools with few students receiving free and reduced-price lunches...
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 10:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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You’ve heard the spin the media, the progressives and the professors have put on the closing of the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, but let’s step back and look at what this is and isn’t about.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 10:04 am
By: Tom Campbell
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America's golfing 'Neville Chamberlain' of foreign policy, remains cool, aloof and may help the World save itself from the 'scientifically proved' mild discomfort resulting from Climate Change.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 9:51 am
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: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 2:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems the folks on Jones Street have kicked off one heck of an orgy - apparently in honor of the box office success of '50 Shades of Grey.'
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 2:03 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I understand that you are leading the University trustees' investigation preceding their consideration of the proposed renaming of Saunders Hall, a proposal based on historical evidence that William L. Saunders, for whom the building is named, was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina...
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 10:24 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla III and the Economic Development Partnership of N.C. announced today that Scott Technologies, Inc. will be investing in growth of its Scott Safety headquarters in Union County, NC. The company plans to invest $28.7 million in Monroe...
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 10:24 am
By: Chris Downey
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Often described as the modern day Jimmy Stewart, Tom Hanks has the versatility of character adaptation to play roles that his audience identify with, especially in roles that offer him the range to be the quintessential American.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 10:23 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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A new advanced placement course in U.S. history has generated serious debate over exactly what information students should be taught in North Carolina public schools about our country's founding. Dr. Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation director of research and education studies, discussed the...
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 10:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Remember the kerfluffle late last year over the CRomnibus? Boehner, McConnell & co. all told us that they would only fund Homeland Security through February.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 10:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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In writing about the enchanting adventures of a 12-year-old boy in 19th century London, an East Carolina University theater professor has discovered a magical world of his own.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 6:23 am
By: ECU News Services
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America's vacationing, golfing, gala functionary, really cool (to the weak of mind) commander-in-chief continues, through world crisis, as America's first amateur president in modern times.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 6:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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