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Mr. Dale Eugene Taitt, age 80, a resident of 4760 Virginia Dare Drive, Washington, NC died Monday March 16, 2015 at River Trace Nursing Center.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 4:20 pm
By: Announcements
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Bernice Foreman Peed, age 88, a resident of 65 Four Paws Road, Aurora, NC died Monday, March 16, 2015 at her home.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 4:08 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Stone William Robert Prechtl, 16, a resident of 1684 Carrow Road, Chocowinity, died Sunday, March 15, 2015.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 3:56 pm
By: Announcements
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State lawmakers have started reviewing Gov. Pat McCrory's budget proposal for the 2015-2017 biennium. It sets out McCrory's General Fund spending plan for $22 billion in each of the next two fiscal years. The General Fund makes up a significant chunk of the overall state budget of more than...
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thirteen East Carolina University students passed up trips to warmer locales this week for a "staycation" in sleeping bags on the floor of the Greenville Community Shelter.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Speaking at a Raleigh, North Carolina, luncheon on March 10, UNC system president Tom Ross warned of "dangerous" trends in higher education today, especially in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:11 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Prudent fiscal management is our first responsibility as stewards of taxpayer dollars...
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:08 pm
By: Chris Downey
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If North Carolina's tax burden has no effect on business decisions and the performance of the economy, as left-of-center politicians and editorialists have repeatedly insisted, then why are they so enamored with targeted tax breaks?
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Clint Eastwood began as a popular television actor during the 'Golden Age' of television, staring as Rowdy Yates, on the fabulous T.V. Western "Rawhide".
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 11:41 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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On February 23, 2015, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a Breaking & Entering and Larceny that occurred at a residence on Bear Creek Road in Grimesland.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 10:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Removing outdated legal barriers to consumer health care choices could help corral rising Medicaid costs in North Carolina, reform advocates say.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 6:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University programs in medicine, nursing and rehabilitation counseling have been ranked among the best graduate schools in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 6:33 am
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory will testify before the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure hearing entitled "Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill: Laying the Foundation for U.S. Economic Growth and Job Creation Part II" on Tuesday. In his capacity as a member of the Executive...
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 6:15 am
By: Chris Downey
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Hoping to loosen the monopoly hospitals have on a variety of medical procedures and facilities, State Rep. Marilyn Avila, R-Wake, has introduced House Bill 200, a measure repealing portions of the state certificate-of-need regulatory statutes.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Each year, you have all kinds of groups ranking members of Congress according to their voting records. The Club For Growth, for instance, champions the concepts of limited government and fiscal conservatism.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 12:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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East Carolina University associate professor Sharon Rogers has spent hours weighing high school football players before and after practice.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 11:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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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: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a world, where religious fascism is growing and spreading at home and abroad, America's amateur president continues to lecture Christians, while bolstering the plight of Muslims, and, oddly, it is the Christians dying at the murderous, bigoted hands of Muslims.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 11:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Vidant Medical Center (VMC) has received full Chest Pain Center accreditation from the national Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC). The accreditation includes percutaneous coronary intervention, in which blocked arteries are opened to allow adequate blood flow to the heart.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 10:40 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In recent years, teacher shortages, along with high attrition rates in rural areas and in fields such as secondary math and science, have prompted state officials to look to the UNC system for more teachers.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 9:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Prospective and current business owners will no longer have to travel in order to attend most workshops sponsored by the Small Business Center at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 8:05 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Stefan M. Selig and Walmart Vice President of U.S. Manufacturing Cindy Marsiglio joined Michael D. Penner, President of PEDS® Legwear (PEDS), for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the opening of PEDS' new $16 million...
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 8:00 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The most recent Civitas Poll shows North Carolina voters strongly support laws protecting the integrity and stature of the election process.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 2:41 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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At the behest of Representative Walter Jones, there is hearing THIS MONDAY at Manteo over the proposed Offshore Drilling studies between the Outer Banks and the pristine Gulf Stream.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Throughout the month of March, in recognition of National Nutrition Month, the East Carolina University Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center and Pitt Partners for Health are offering free grocery store tours aimed at teaching community members how to eat healthy on a limited...
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 2:28 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The bottom line is that the governor's budget would increase K-12 education spending by 2.8 percent, or $235 million more, than the 2014-15 N.C. state budget.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The registration deadline is approaching for the first Miss Gullfest Pageant to be held Saturday, April 18, at Beaufort County Community College as part of the college's annual spring festival, Gullfest.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:50 am
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after learning that the United States Coast Guard had suspended the search for seven U.S. Marines, stationed at Camp Lejeune, and four Louisiana National Guard air crewmembers aboard an Army helicopter that went down Tuesday during a night...
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:46 am
By: Chris Downey
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Born in the small town of Godwin (Cumberland County) in 1900, David Marshall "Carbine" Williams was the creator of the M-1 Carbine, the U.S. Army's favorite semi-automatic rifle during World War II.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Acclaimed octogenarian film director /actor Clint Eastwood, and rising film star Bradley Cooper, who producer of American Sniper may just have a monetary, and critically acclaimed hit on their hands with the Chris Kyle biopic that each are so powerfully responsible for.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The AP is reporting that, like the Locke Foundation, the Heartland Institute, and a number of other think tanks, private companies, and individual scientists, Koch Industries, headed by philanthropists and donors to free market causes David and Charles Koch, has received a letter demanding...
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sources tell me that members of the NCGOP Executive Committee were informed via email this morning that current state party chairman Claude Pope will not be seeking another term in office.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Now that Gov. Pat McCrory has released his budget proposal for the 2015-17 biennium, there are at least two fiscal issues dividing North Carolina Republicans this year.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 4:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Republicans begin their fourth year leading our state legislature it is fair to assess how they and we are doing under their control.
Published: Sunday, March 15th, 2015 @ 10:44 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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