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North Carolina's 2016-17 state budget responsibly limited the growth rate of state spending, wisely padded the state's Rainy Day Fund, cut taxes further and continued one of the most aggressive trends of teacher pay increases in the nation.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:27 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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One thing I've learned in my years of teaching in the U.S. is that many young Americans are moral relativists. As students in elementary and secondary schools, they were taught that there is no moral fact of the matter
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:22 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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State health officials continue to encourage North Carolinians to take preventive measures against mosquito bites and to stay informed of the risk of Zika virus infection before traveling to areas with local, active transmission, now including Miami, Fla.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:20 pm
By: Russell Allen
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Governor Pat McCrory joined state and local officials today to announce a $145,000 grant to help fund a key pedestrian bridge on the Middle Fork Greenway. The grant was funded by the North Carolina Department of Transportation Contingency Fund
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:10 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed the states of North Carolina and Tennessee a victory on Wednesday when it struck down a Federal Communications Commission rule that pre-empted the states' regulation of municipal broadband service within their borders
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you think about it for a while, you will realize that almost every talent in life is the result of repetition and desire. With the proper desire someone will spend the time and effort to repeatedly practice the skill they are trying to master.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 11:15 am
By: Bobby Tony
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East Carolina University football player and graduate student Jeffrey Coprich has turned a tragedy into a way to honor his sister while advocating a lifelong hobby - reading.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 11:03 am
By: ECU News Services
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On August 9, 2016, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested, Jonathan Cooper, 31 years of age, of 305 Riddick Road in Pantego. Riddick was charged with three (3) counts of Possession with Intent to Sell and Deliver Cocaine.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 10:06 am
By: Russell Allen
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With fewer than 90 days before the November 8th elections it is fitting to consider who can and will vote and what can be done to encourage voter turnout
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 1:02 am
By: Tom Campbell
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On July 27, Civitas’ Susan Myrick pointed out the conflict of interest of Judge Michael Morgan, who is not only running for the one opening on the state Supreme Court this year.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:56 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Department of Transportation Secretary Nick Tennyson joined federal, state and local officials today to celebrate the opening of the next phase of the Fayetteville Outer Loop
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:55 am
By: McCrory Communications
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It began with the short lived DNC's (Democrat National Committee's) email scandal, swept under the media rug by the owned Democrat press, which, oddly, was blamed on the Russians and Donald Trump.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Several years ago, the University of Colorado Boulder did something pioneering in American higher education.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 12:15 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that Direct Pack, Inc. will locate a new East Coast facility in Richmond County, creating 94 jobs over the next five years
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 4:49 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Three more elected officials joined the outcry of citizens across the state for Roy Cooper to do his job as Attorney General
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 4:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On July 21, 2016 the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a larceny from a residence on Tuscarora Ave in Bath
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 4:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The filing period for all nine Wake County school board seats opens at noon Thursday and ends at noon Wednesday, Aug. 17.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One week ago today, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that the Obama Administration made a $400 million cash payment to the Iranian government at the same time four prisoners were released from their custody
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 12:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. James Aaron Calhoun, age 65, a resident of Washington Street, Washington, NC died Saturday, August 6, 2016 at his residence.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 11:33 am
By: Announcements
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I must be invisible. I've never been polled by a poll. You would think they would have found me by now. Are they making all this up?
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 9:25 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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On Monday, in the midst of her presidential campaign complete with her claims of "short circuiting" and continued deception regarding the FBI's email probe, the Democratic Party's presidential heir apparent found herself the defendant in a federal court case
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 3:40 am
By: Jim Kouri
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East Carolina University's College of Health and Human Performance dedicated the Psychophysiology and Biofeedback Laboratory in the Carol G. Belk Building in honor of alumnus Max Ray Joyner Sr. on July 20
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 3:31 am
By: ECU News Services
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The McCrory campaign released the following statement in response to Larry Hall's press conference politicizing coal ash
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 3:23 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused on Thursday to put a hold on its order striking down North Carolina's voter ID law and related election reforms while the opinion is on appeal.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 3:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an email statement, Arends claims that since Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton refuse to stop them - some may claim they even help them - it's up to proud Americans to save the United States
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:46 am
By: Jim Kouri
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Could it be that Higher Education's big problem is the use of the word "Higher".
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:38 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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It began, remarkably enough, as the national political convention that would be normal, far out-distancing the abnormality of the Republican national convention, one week earlier, where the luminaries of past presidents and political competitors did not show up to nominate Donald J. Trump.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dear AOP Board members, please take a moment each day if you can between now and Aug 24 for the Turnage as the Favorite Events Venue in town.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 2:18 am
By: Russell Allen
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The 10th anniversary of East Carolina University's Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series kicks off in September with speakers of internationally renowned and wide public interest.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 12:40 am
By: ECU News Services
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Please be advised that this report explains how the Clinton Family's alleged money laundering enterprise brought millions of dollars from suspicious donors to the Clinton Foundation's coffers on a money trail that ran through Canada
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 12:39 am
By: Jim Kouri
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Former SBI agent claims reports on crime lab were malicious, ruined her career.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory announced he will ask the Supreme Court tomorrow to reinstate North Carolina's common sense voter ID law.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 12:12 am
By: McCrory Communications
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According to a report (PDF) published by the NC Department of Public Instruction, 79,575, or 5.2 percent, of North Carolina's public school students attend a charter school in North Carolina this year.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 12:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Following Hillary Clinton's press conference this afternoon where she once again contradicted FBI Director James Comey's statements regarding her email scandal, the Burr campaign calls on Deborah Ross to state whether she believes Hillary Clinton has misled the American people in her public statemen
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2016 @ 11:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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