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This weekend marks the end of a sports era. Since I was around at the beginning, I want to join others in mourning the loss of over-the-air broadcasts of ACC sports.
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2019 @ 8:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I'm a Billy Joel fan, and I saw him long ago with Elton John at the Omni in Atlanta. I got reacquainted with his music when I listened to the Billy Joel station on SiriusXM on a January trip to the mountains-both up and back.
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2019 @ 4:48 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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The Map Act may have reached the end of the road.
Published: Thursday, March 14th, 2019 @ 4:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Venezuela entered its fourth day of blackouts in an "electricity crisis" that plunged most of the country's 23 states, including the state home to the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, into complete darkness.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 2:27 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Trump's 2020 budget, which was released today, builds upon incredible success and keeps his promises to the American people.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 9:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mark Davis said he is the happiest person in North Carolina after being appointed to a seat on the N.C. Supreme Court. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, is not so pleased
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This Thursday, March 14 will mark the new beginnings of the Beaufort County Conservative Club. Meeting 6:30 pm at King Chicken in Washington NC.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 8:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Jim Carroll released the Administration's Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 National Drug Control Budget, which requests a record $34.6 billion for counter-drug efforts.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 8:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, many of the leaders in North Carolina's efforts to get people leaving prison on track to lead productive lives came together in Greensboro to learn, share information and develop new strategies during the 2019 North Carolina Reentry Summit.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 2:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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During the early morning hours of March 12, 2019 the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received an anonymous tip about a possible threat of a school shooting.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 2:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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One of the fastest growing public universities in North Carolina is now within reach of residents of Beaufort County.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 2:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The following is a statement from Kim Westbrook Strach, executive director of the State Board of Elections, in response to the federal grand jury subpoena issued to the State Board regarding the 9th Congressional District election fraud investigation.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 2:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This weekend, Media Matters released a compendium of old Tucker Carlson quotes from the period 2006 to 2011 - a period during which Carlson routinely called into the shock-jock show Bubba The Love Sponge.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019 @ 1:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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Uptown Greenville Announces Annual Award Recipients
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As a result of a hearing in the Superior Court of Beaufort County on November 26, 2018, the court (Jeffery B. Foster, Judge presiding) denied the motion of the Plaintiffs (William Ray Leary, Donna Lay and Gerald Seighman) to compel the Commissioners.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Crowded is an understatement. Twenty-six candidates from four political parties lined up to seek the vacant 3rd U.S. Congressional District seat in a July 9 special election
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and David Rouzer (R-NC-07) applauded President Trump for signing the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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America is roaring back, and now is the time to invest in the future of America.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 9:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A straw poll was held at the 3rd Congressional District Meeting on Saturday, March 2 to see which candidate for the US House (to fill the seat vacated by Congressman Walter Jones' untimely passing) and Michael Speciale was the winner.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 10:00 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Here's a good news-bad news story that needs a happy ending. The good news is that as of January our state's unemployment rate was 3.6 percent. When you consider it was 4.5 percent last February that's cause for celebration
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 9:59 am
By: Tom Campbell
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If my laptop research is correct, each Congressman has a $940,000 budget to hire 18 full time staffers.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 7:51 am
By: Ted McDonald
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The North Carolina General Assembly lags behind most other states as one of seven state governments that doesn't offer video of any legislative sessions or committees
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 7:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For decades, the Democratic Party has often taken the Jewish-American vote for granted.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 7:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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Adults who don’t receive health insurance through their employer struggle to find affordable plans when they look to buy coverage on their own from an insurance company
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 1:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the Fresh Face™ of the Democratic Party, found herself on the wrong end of a rather damning expose from The New York Post.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 1:46 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Monday, March 11, White House Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russ Vought will release the President's Fiscal Year 2020 Budget of the United States Government.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 1:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Gov. Roy Cooper named Judge Mark Davis as Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 @ 1:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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March 2019 Calendar
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 11:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Court Gives the State More Time to Pay $730 Million Judgment in Lawsuit over School Technology FundsA Wake County Superior Court judge signed a consent order giving the state more time to pay a nearly $730 million judgment in a lawsuit over school technology funds
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 9:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Board of Elections staff will host a public hearing Wednesday, March 13, to receive comments on proposed rules regarding the implementation of North Carolina's new voter identification requirement.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 7:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Tanner Boyd was like most of his peers in his teens. He had a vague idea that he wanted to stay in Beaufort County, but he had no clue what he could do as a career.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 7:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to eliminate the five-month waiting period before ALS patients can receive the Social Security Disability Insurance benefits they earned by contributing to Social Security.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 6:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's largest insurer has brokered an agreement with three national health care companies to open intensive primary care clinics this year in areas lacking services.
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 2:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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