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On November 25, 2015 at approximately 10:08 pm, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a breaking and entering and larceny from a business on Cherry Run Road in Washington. The Sheriff's Office began an investigation and collected evidence.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:33 pm
By: Chris Downey
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In is in the nature of humans to try to find order and organization in all things.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:31 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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In the last two years, academics and scholars of public policy have identified North Carolina as a state with an overly complex criminal code that can ensnare small businesses, farmers, and individuals who unknowingly fail to comply with regulatory rules. In 2014, Professor Jeff Welty of the...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 12:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory signed a proclamation today declaring January Stalking Awareness Month in North Carolina
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:57 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Last week, the NC Department of Public Instruction released financial data for the 2014-15 school year. In the table below, I included per pupil expenditure figures and (composite) grade-level math and reading proficiency percentages for students in grades 3-8.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What IS a Republican? Is it merely someone who marks an 'R' on their voter registration card? Is it someone who seeks to protect the common people from the excesses of government bureaucracy?
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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North Carolina's tax code penalizes savings and investment by double taxing their returns - specifically interest, dividends, and capital gains. These biases can only be eliminated by removing savings and investment from the tax base, or by eliminating the returns to saving; for example...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hundreds of supporters of the $2 billion Connect NC bond referendum on the March 15 ballot gathered Tuesday on N.C. State University’s Centennial Campus to kick off a campaign they say is essential for a growing North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:39 am
By: McCrory Communications
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It was a protest that absolutely no one in Charlotte saw coming. A dive bar in a hip neighborhood was to be replaced with an apartment building with more retail space
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week's horrific terrorist attack in Paris seems to be causing changes in the way policymakers think about the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and, one way or another, those changes are likely to have an impact here in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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First, it was the Liberal, but not too sharp and not at all funny, women of The View, and then it was their messiah, Hussein Obama, stopping the Keystone Pipeline, and then attempting to explain that death truthfully.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The graph below compares the temperature predictions of the major climate models to actual climate change figures using satellite data, considered to be the most accurate, going back to 1979 when satellite records began. The graph, compiled by University of Alabama at Huntsville climatologists...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ms. Jeannitta Nina Luster, 51, resident of 904 East 8th St., Washington, died Fri., Jan. 01, 2016.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:18 am
By: Announcements
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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 Frontier Communications Corporation has committed to adding 200 jobs over the coming five years as part of a $4.3 million expansion...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Elizabeth Holliday Hill departed this earthly plane on Saturday, January 2, 2016 in Carlsbad, CA at the home of her loving daughter Katie.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:04 am
By: Announcements
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Regulation costs already reach at least $3.1 billion annually in North Carolina and might stretch to as much as $25 billion. A new John Locke Foundation Policy Report focuses on a tool designed to "rein in" state regulatory overreach.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 11:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The details of the trip are not important but I am happy to report that I did not come back broke.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:59 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Sunny skies greeted more than 200 people who attended the annual Veterans Day ceremony at East Carolina University on Nov. 11.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:56 am
By: ECU News Services
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Mildred L. Burrus, age 57, a resident of Pungo Village, Belhaven, NC passed away on Saturday, January 2, 2016 surrounded by her family.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:50 am
By: Announcements
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The Pope Center, for the most part, is about policy. Our mission is to conceive and promote policies that will improve higher education
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:37 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The News & Observer is doing its darnedest to ignore the growing criticism of Common Core standards. The paper's recent editorial "Defending Common Core" was an exercise in putting lipstick on a pig.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A driving program developed by East Carolina University graduate students is steering some local teens with autism toward greater independence.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:22 am
By: ECU News Services
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At first, legislative leaders — led by Rep. David Lewis — were cheerleading hard for moving North Carolina’s presidential primary from May to March.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:19 am
By: Brant Clifton
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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: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The election night tally back in 1988 showed that Jim Martin was the first Republican to win re-election as governor of North Carolina in the 20th century
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University is getting high marks by two national organizations for its efforts in supporting student veterans and military service members.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:03 am
By: ECU News Services
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How would you feel if the Federal government told you that your son or daughter had to share a bathroom or locker room with a student of the opposite sex?
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:56 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The "Jayvee Team", ISIS, as underplayed by American President Hussein Obama shortly after his Benghazi Cover-up was initiated, attacked multiple locations in Paris, France, killing many, wounding more.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Education unveiled its controversial College Scorecard website and accompanying data
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Last Friday the John Locke Foundation filed a brief in support of the plaintiffs in Kirby v. NCDOT, a case that is currently before the NC Supreme Court. We filed as amicus curiae ("a friend of the court") because we wanted to bring certain facts and arguments to the Court's attention.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State regulations cost North Carolina at least $3.1 billion and as much as $25 billion each year, according to a new economic analysis compiled for the John Locke Foundation. JLF is releasing the analysis along with its own report recommending a new tool to fight state regulatory overreach
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 9:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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