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Mrs. Edna Dail Owens, age 81, died Friday, July 3, 2015 at River Trace Nursing Home in Washington.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 10:59 am
By: Announcements
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We seem to be trying to make America into whatever political party you favor. It is about time to consider the real part of July 4, 1776 . . .
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:43 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Basic economics can help us make better decisions for our families and for public policy
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Listen to members of the education establishment, and you will hear that not enough people are going to college. Listen to higher education reformers, particularly political conservatives, and you will hear that too many are going to college
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:06 am
By: John William Pope Center
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On Saturday, June 6, North Carolina's Commerce Department Secretary and staunch defender of corporate welfare, John Skvarla, appeared on WRAL's On the Record...
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The theme of this year's issue of the award-winning North Carolina Literary Review is "North Carolina Literature in a Global Context." The print issue features cover art by Chapel Hill resident Eduardo Lapetina, a native of Argentina.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm
By: ECU News Services
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There are concerns that students who pursue careers in education represent the least capable of those students who pursue college degrees. As Thomas Sowell observed in Inside American Education, "Consistently, for decades, those college students who have majored in education have been among the...
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 8:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, stating that states cannot ban same-gender couples the right to marry in all 50 states.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:55 am
By: McCrory Communications
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There was a time when one's initiation into the fraternity of journalism included a profound indoctrination into the value of the First Amendment to the survival of our Republic.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few are surprised our legislature came up to the deadline to pass a new state budget and was forced to pass a continuing resolution. It’s a regular occurrence.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:44 am
By: Tom Campbell
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On June 17th, 2015, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a Fraud at a business on NC 33 Hwy E. in Blounts Creek.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you want to find an education issue where there seems to be universal agreement in North Carolina, talk about testing. Most everyone agrees we subject our kids to too much of it.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:42 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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For the second straight fiscal year, the North Carolina Medicaid program ended the year with cash on hand.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 8:24 am
By: Christopher Maye
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In a recent piece in the New York Times, University of Chicago law professor Tom Ginsburg urges us to "Stop Revering Magna Carta." Ginsburg tries to persuade us that our reverence is misplaced by pointing out that Magna Carta was neither "the first document of its type" nor "a ringing endorsement of
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 7:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If a job is once begun, never leave it till it’s done, be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all. One of my mom’s mini-sermons.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:30 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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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, July 4th, 2015 @ 2:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following Independence Day statement.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:51 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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I visited the Army recruiter before joining the Navy to see if I could stay home as a conscientious objector but since I was not a seminary student or a member of some strange organization he suggested that I volunteer for the dangerous job of Medic and be exempt from carrying a weapon.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:39 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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On March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered one of the most important speeches in our country's history.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:30 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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In nearly three decades of writing a syndicated column on North Carolina politics and government, I've always received reader response.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina announced today that Herbalife Ltd. will be expanding in Forsyth County.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:20 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The U.S. Supreme Court today vacated a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judgment that had allowed the city of Norfolk, Va. to suppress a banner protesting the government's illegal attempt to seize private property by eminent domain....
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 4:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory visited Hammocks Beach State Park today to discuss the Connect NC bond proposal. Connect NC will invest a total of $67.3 million in 28 state parks. Of that total, $1.5 million will be invested at Hammocks Beach State Park.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 4:03 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The term “Founding Fathers” of the United States includes many great and courageous and wisely forward-thinking men.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Timeline of Events Leading to the Revolutionary War and beyond to its conclusion, and through the anti-climatic birthing pains.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:54 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Governor Pat McCrory signed two bills into law today to support foster care children and families. Surrounded by bill sponsors Senator Tamara Barringer, Senator Tommy Tucker, Senator Kathy Harrington, Representative Sarah Stevens, other legislators and former foster care children, the governor...
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 3:50 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Over the last few weeks, debates in the North Carolina legislature have focused on the budget and the stark differences between the House and Senate versions. This week I would like to discuss more of the politics of the budget process and what that means for spending measures.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A group of Lake Norman-area business leaders traveled by chartered bus to Raleigh on Tuesday to urge state legislators to support a bill that would cancel the state’s contract with a private company to build and operate toll lanes on Interstate 77 between Charlotte and Mooresville.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed the following bills into law.
Published: Saturday, July 4th, 2015 @ 12:57 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Recently I was thumbing through my copy of Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State, an anthology of collected essays by noted historian H. G. Jones. (He wrote a weekly column from 1969-1986.) The editors Randell Jones and Caitlin Jones, unrelated to the history columnist, write that...
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 11:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bernard W. (B. W.) Collier II took the oath of office as Director of the State Bureau of Investigation at the State Capitol in a ceremony attended by his family, Governor Pat McCrory and Department of Public Safety Secretary Frank Perry.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 9:42 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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It's going to take a while longer for the North Carolina Legislature to pass its two-year budget. Part of the hold up will be finalizing an agreement on reforming the state's certificate of need (CON) law, which requires health systems and medical providers to first obtain a hall pass from the...
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 9:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina is the first state to lose a voter photo ID case and the Republicans in the state legislature were the deciding factor.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 2:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A celebrity member of the NCGOP establishment sent along to us this article from The Weekly Standard — edited by Bill Kristol, who invested heavily in the 2014 primary challenge against Walter Jones — expressing frustration with “missing an opportunity” to finally GET Walter Jones.
Published: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 @ 2:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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