Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) today announced an expansion by Mayne Pharma at its Greenville site. The specialty pharmaceutical company develops and manufactures branded and generic...
Published: Friday, August 28th, 2015 @ 10:24 am
By: McCrory Communications
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This week Carolina Journal reported on an important ruling against an occupational license in Texas. State leaders should take note.
Published: Friday, August 28th, 2015 @ 9:30 am
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 (EDPNC) announced today that Albemarle Corporation will move its corporate headquarters to Charlotte
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 7:36 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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As a very public advocate of parental choice in education for most of my adult life, I am used to having my intentions questioned.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The best way to electrocute yourself is to grab both the positive and negative ends of a highly charged transformer. The same may be true of some issues, but here I go.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 5:18 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Just when I think the NC Chamber can't sink any lower, they DO.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 1:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Hillary "Larry" Holden Bartley, born May 2, 1921, a resident of 725 US 264 Bypass, Belhaven, died Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at his home.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:59 am
By: Announcements
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The N.C. Division of Non-Public Education is the state agency responsible for home and private school oversight and data collection. This week, the agency published annual private and home school statistics for the 2014-15 school year.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Critics questioned whether a recent state audit attributing a 9 percent savings in Medicaid costs to the nonprofit Community Care of North Carolina was a useful guide to policymakers weighing reforms in the government health insurance program covering 1.4 million poor, elderly, and disabled North Ca
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 9:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Based on the latest track data (see attached) we must get more serious about our preparation for a Hurricane to impact Beaufort County.
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 8:48 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc., will create approximately 700 jobs at a new bio-manufacturing facility in Johnston...
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 2:49 am
By: McCrory Communications
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It has been four years since Republicans took control of our legislature. They now control all three branches of state government.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 11:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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When you think of community colleges, you tend to think of things like, Offshore-Re-education-Camp-Lesson-6oh, job training and continuing education.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 6:09 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2001, the voters in Mississippi decided the keep the stars and bars on their flag.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:58 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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State Rep. Rob Bryan plans to introduce legislation creating a pilot program transforming as many as five perpetually failing elementary schools into charter-like entities under a new Achievement School District with its own superintendent.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a campaign email last week, Attorney General Roy Cooper made it clear he wants to engage in a public debate about policy. But while the attorney general and Democrat candidate for governor made his support for Obamacare clear.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I doubt if there will ever be a robot that can calculate the value of a human life.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:46 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that TTI Floor Care N.A., the marketer and manufacturer of the iconic Hoover, Dirt Devil and Oreck brands, will create...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:31 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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In June, the US Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code. The Court held that, under the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures, "The provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code that requires hotel operators to make their registries...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Vidant Health continues to assess the potential impacts of an incomplete state budget, including the uncertainty of Medicaid reform, its Board of Directors approved the fiscal year 2016 operational plan today.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 4:31 pm
By: Chris Downey
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If you do not think you are invested in the Stock Market, think again. If you have insurance, you are invested in the stock market.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:43 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Kudos to Gov. Pat McCrory and the General Assembly for moving budget talks forward and reaching an agreement on the spending number for the 2015-16 budget year.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I have always enjoyed film reviews ... well some of them. Obviously our readers do too.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 1:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Making progress on the establishment of two new schools, an enrollment of 30,000 students and the largest fundraising campaign in school history are among East Carolina University's priorities for this academic year, according to Chancellor Steve Ballard.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 12:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Mr. Hillary Bartley, age 94, a resident of 725 U.S. Highway 264 Bypass, Belhaven, died Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 12:52 pm
By: Announcements
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Arthur "Art" Blair Reams, age 72, a resident of 121 Fairway Drive, Washington, NC, passed away peacefully at his home Monday, August 24, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 12:42 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Richard Allen Potter, age 59, a resident of Chocowinity, NC died Sunday, August 23, 2015 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 12:30 pm
By: Announcements
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One of the most popular options for expanding educational opportunity is the Education Savings Account (ESA). Currently five states - Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee and Nevada - have passed ESA legislation, and at least 10 other states have bills in the works.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 10:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On August 19th 2015 at approximately 11:00 PM, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a shooting at a residence on Magnolia School Road in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 9:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Listen to mainstream education advocates, and you'll come away thinking that not enough people are going to college. But if you listen to higher education reformers, particularly political conservatives, you'll hear that too many are going to college.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Animal Colony" is an excellent book to help discredit socialism to young readers and to introduce them to proper notions of freedom.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 8:54 am
By: Diane Rufino
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E. M. Forster's frightening short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) depicts a post-apocalyptic world in which all human activity has been subsumed by a global digital network similar to the Internet (except that Forster's version is controlled by a worldwide government bureaucracy)...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 2:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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