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The Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh excitedly touts that "General Admission to all facilities is FREE!"
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 8:14 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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I have a "good" elderly retired USAF Colonel who sends me all the hate stuff over our President. I was down at Havelock on Election Day.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 8:10 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Governor Pat McCrory and Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane announced today that state and municipal leaders have tentatively agreed to a deal that would sell the Dorothea Dix property to the City of Raleigh.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 6:55 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Gullfest, the spring festival at Beaufort County Community College to be held April 18 and 19, will feature a new event for the 2015 event - the first Miss Gullfest Pageant.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 6:52 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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Now that Republicans are leading both chambers in Congress and in the North Carolina legislature, intra-party differences will garner more attention than they have in the past - particularly from those hoping the new GOP majorities will be chaotic, disastrous, and short-lived.
Published: Monday, January 12th, 2015 @ 5:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Projections about a mass teacher exodus in North Carolina sparked by Republican legislative policies not only have failed to materialize, but also turnover rates declined last year, according to an annual report issued by the state Department of Public Instruction.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Janet Cutler, a certified family nurse practitioner will be joining Vidant Family Medicine- Belhaven located at 216 Haslin Street.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 11:00 pm
By: Chris Downey
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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: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, yet another study claiming that expanding Medicaid in North Carolina will create tens of thousands of jobs was released and dutifully reported by the media. The findings of such studies, however, are based upon a fatally flawed assumption that Medicaid coverage equates to access to...
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 10:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Cellists, pianists, violinists and violists from around the world have converged at East Carolina University for its first-ever Winter Workshop.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Today I am announcing that I am changing my party affiliation to Unaffiliated. This has been a difficult decision as I have been a Democrat since I first registered to vote.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 10:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Incoming House majority leader Mike Hager is trying to open up the decision making process in the General Assembly's lower chamber.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 7:44 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I've been writing about media bias for 20-plus years, since that day in the early '90s when the scales fell from my eyes and I saw what was happening in my chosen profession. I was managing editor of The Herald-Sun in Durham, and I began seeing things I didn't like, not only in the national media, b
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We know the public position of Dick Cheney that the evil terrorists deserved being tortured.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 2:14 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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On 1-8-2015, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Kasey Demon Bragg, 37 years of age, of 103 Third Street in Aurora. Bragg was charged with Possession of Cocaine, Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 12:37 pm
By: Chris Downey
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One of the most honest and revealing academic articles in a long time will soon be published in the premier journal in social psychology.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 11:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A new report from the Center for American Progress claims that the "Great Recession" devastated public university investments nationwide. Specifically, it says that over a five-year period, tuition has skyrocketed, states have withdrawn public investment, and low-income families have been pushed...
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 11:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Thom Tillis takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's film tax incentives program has changed significantly. Formerly a refundable tax credit of 25 percent of qualifying production expenses capped at $20 million per production, the program now is a $10 million grant program.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Because of the tremendous benefits conferred by better education, it would be great if policymakers knew precisely what silver bullets to fire to eliminate obstacles to higher achievement.
Published: Sunday, January 11th, 2015 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted in favor of legislation that would create thousands of American jobs through the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 10:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Pretty much as soon as the polls closed on Election Day 2014, the political prognosticators began laying bets on what will happen by Election Day 2016. At the national level, attention quickly focused on the seemingly endless parade of Republicans seeking to take on Hillary Clinton.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Uptown Greenville reached record levels of investment in 2014 with the Uptown Parking Deck, the Community Smith Superblock project, and The Boundary @ West End development, among many others.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ms. Wendy Joyce Taylor, age 54, a resident of 3591 Gilead Shores Road, Blounts Creek, NC, died Saturday, January 10, 2015 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:31 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Sarah Dixon Mayo, a resident of 108 Village Circle, Washington, died Saturday at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:23 pm
By: Announcements
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Barbara Everett Roberson, 79, wife of the late Larry Craig Roberson, died peacefully Friday, January 9, 2015, in Advance, NC following a stroke.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:15 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Maggie Lean Murschion Satterthwaite, 88, of 481 Belhaven Square, Belhaven, died Friday, Jan. 9, 2015.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:07 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Mae Bell Walker Harris, age 96, a resident of 202 Walls Mill Road, Aurora, NC, died Thursday January 8, 2015 at Carolina East Medical Center.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 8:53 pm
By: Announcements
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Miss Carolyn Cherry Waters, age 76, formerly of Washington, died Wednesday, January 7, 2015.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 8:49 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Mary "Jean" Hancock Walker, age 82, a resident of Forecastle Ct., Pamlico Plantation Community, Washington, NC, passed away on Friday, January 9, 2015.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 8:34 pm
By: Announcements
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Jean Marie Hoagland, a resident of N. King St., Bath, NC, died Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Arrangements will be announced.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 8:31 pm
By: Announcements
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I got a call yesterday from someone - very familiar with the inner workings of the state House Republican Caucus - who had just read my item on Democrat Paul Tine's departure from the Democrat Caucus.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 7:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary John Skvarla along with the Economic Development Partnership of NC announced today that White Labs, Inc. is opening a new facility in Buncombe County. The company plans to create 56 new jobs over the next three years and invest...
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 1:19 pm
By: Chris Downey
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North Carolina's so-called Welcome Centers are indeed a welcome site for full-bladdered motorists in need of a pit stop. And the available maps and tourism brochures may come in handy for curious travelers as well.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 11:26 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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