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Saying the current plan is antiquated, a legislative agency on Monday recommended that the state scrap its three-tiered system for awarding economic development grants.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Elections today announced that it has hired veteran reporter and anchor Jackie Hyland as the agency's public information officer. Hyland spent more than two decades covering national and local news in New York, Dallas, and Raleigh, most recently at the CBS-affiliate WRAL.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:25 am
By: Chris Downey
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She arrived as an unpaid intern at the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, and now East Carolina University junior nursing student Aleigha Criego is having a hard time leaving.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:23 am
By: ECU News Services
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The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013, along with the massacre of nine black churchgoers last summer in Charleston, South Carolina, created racial hysteria and gave rise to an anti-intellectual movement that has now extended to American campuses
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:18 am
By: John William Pope Center
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On October 31, 2015 Bobby Tony submitted a unique comment about one of my Blog Postings.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:14 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Does our state's constitution mean what it says? That's the question asked by a recent lawsuit filed in Wake County Superior Court. At issue is the constitutionality of recent changes to how justices are elected to the North Carolina Supreme Court. The case will not only require our courts to...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:09 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today released the following statement in response to Roy Cooper's call for more gun control in North Carolina...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:08 am
By: Chris Downey
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Through a series of eight public forums, East Carolina University is seeking input from faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members in the search for a new chancellor.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:06 am
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory has selected Jason Disbrow of Southport to fill a district court vacancy in the thirteenth judicial district (Brunswick, Columbus, and Bladen Counties). The vacancy was created by the resignation of District Court Judge Marion Warren, who was recently appointed Director of...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 5:01 am
By: McCrory Communications
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I know, I know, we just finished Thanksgiving, but Christmas is right around the corner, and I always want things a bit neater around the house before I start decorating.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:50 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Since 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has been on American college campuses recruiting students to join a movement to isolate Israel.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Nashville-Civitas Center for Law and Freedom (CLF) Lead Counsel Elliot Engstrom will be a featured panelist at the Heartland Institute's Emerging Issues Forum on Dec. 9 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:39 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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College Professor, Dr. Everett Piper, blasts student who felt offended at a college sermon. We need more college leaders like Everett.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Several dozen physicians from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have been chosen by their peers for inclusion in the 2015 "Best Doctors in America" list.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:35 am
By: ECU News Services
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Two of state government's most influential fiscal administrators overseeing budget and revenue operations are leaving their posts, and Thursday Gov. Pat McCrory called a news conference at the Executive Mansion to announce their successors.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the White House, November 24th, Obama meets with France President Francois Hollande, a fellow Socialist to our Hussein, and little was accomplished, other than Obama pledged America's undying friendship and that he is so 'looking forward to jetting off to the 150 nation summit of Climate Change'.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Governor has announced additional customer service improvements for the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NCDMV) for 2016. The office-based improvements are aimed at reducing wait times, particularly for obtaining new driver licenses and identification cards as well updating...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 12:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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During the 1787-89 debates over ratifying the U.S. Constitution, for example, North Carolina's population was divided over the necessity of a new constitution and what became known as the Bill of Rights.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, NCGOP Chairman Hasan Harnett released the following statement on N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper's high-dollar New York City fundraiser with "America's Worst Governor," Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:59 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Two families from Mongolia will celebrate their first Thanksgiving this week, grateful their youngest members have each received a second chance for a healthy life.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:52 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Today is World AIDS Day, which renews opportunities for health service agencies to work actively and collaboratively with partners to raise awareness about HIV and move closer to an AIDS-free generation.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:31 pm
By: Chris Downey
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A novel justification for governments heavily subsidizing otherwise unsustainable, expensive, inefficient renewable energy is to argue that all energy sources get subsidies. The general assertion is true as far as that goes. Still, the argument is often used as a variant of...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Over the last few weeks, the Raleigh News and Observer (along with its sister outlet, the Charlotte Observer) has been waging war on the opponents of Common Core and in particular on the Academic Standards Review Commission, the body tasked with reviewing the math and English standards and...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:51 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory strongly urged President Barack Obama to reconsider his veto threat after the U.S House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill sponsored by North Carolina Representative Richard Hudson to halt the administration's plan to take in thousands of Syrian and...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:24 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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In 1972, at the University of Georgia, our college newspaper staff opposed the proposal to change the name of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism to the Henry W. Grady School of Mass Communications
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I offer these as a starting point for reflective thought, in hopes that you can discuss this with your circle of friends. We are into the real political season now (Really?) and for most of us the opportunity to vote will occur in March this year.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 6:28 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Linda Lilly-Strickland, 68, of 1177 State Camp Rd., Vanceboro, died Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 2:16 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Adrien James Trumpler Sr., of 8715 Hwy 99 South, Belhaven, died December 26, 2015 at home.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 1:49 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Cassie Mae Francis Modlin, age 91, a resident of 150 Old Brick Road, Vanceboro, died Sunday January 3, 2016 at home.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 1:34 pm
By: Announcements
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John Fennebresque's friends and coworkers call him "Czar." That appears to be a fitting nickname, for his imperious exercise of authority was his downfall as chairman of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 12:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, Senator Tillis (R-NC), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement in response to President Obama's press conference at the Pentagon
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Progressive critics of North Carolina's historic 2013 tax reforms are quick to seize on topline unemployment rate figures in an attempt to discredit the rate cuts. But a closer look shows that in fact our state has enjoyed stellar job growth since taxes were cut.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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