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East Carolina University has become the 77th educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 5:50 am
By: ECU News Services
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State Treasurer Dale Fowell has sweetened a deal for hospitals to sign on to his Clear Pricing Project.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 8:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU junior kicker Jake Verity has been named to the 2019 Lou Groza Place-kicker Award Watch List, according to an announcement by the Palm Beach County Sports Commission Wednesday.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 1:01 pm
By: ECU Sports
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Fiery arguments over hemp regulation smoldered out Wednesday, July 24, when House members reversed feverish efforts to criminalize the plant’s smokable flower.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 12:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A bill making it easier for someone to become a licensed funeral director has cleared the Senate.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 4:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Joan D. Wynn, PhD, RN, chief quality and patient safety officer for Vidant Health, has been awarded the North Carolina Healthcare Association’s (NCHA) 2019 Clinical Leadership Award.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 1:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Medicaid program is for those in the shadows, the most unfortunate and needy of our citizens. As discussions of expanding our state’s Medicaid program continue — and hold up the new budget — it’s worth asking: Is our current Medicaid program adequately serving those in the shadows?
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, the Buddy Bengel campaign announced that it will post having raised just over $94,000 and has $71,000 cash on hand as of June 30th, 2019. Bengel officially announced his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor on June 3rd.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 9:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The 25th Annual "Meet The Pirates" event presented by Piggly Wiggly Fresh Buy, East Carolina's preseason football fanfest, is scheduled for Saturday, August 17 at Bagwell Field inside Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium from 4-8 p.m.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2019 @ 7:31 am
By: ECU Sports
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Senate Bill 584, Criminal Law Reform, is another attempt to clean up North Carolina’s mishmash of criminal laws. Picking through the disarray is proving a slow process for lawmakers.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 8:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Law enforcement officers are in high demand, and Beaufort County Community College sent three more graduates out into the community to begin their careers.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 8:14 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Before mounting a defense in the Common Cause v. Lewis partisan gerrymandering trial, one lawmaker has issued a news release hinting at arguments he and fellow defendants are likely to make.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 7:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It started with a simple request on Saturday morning, Jan. 13, 2018. Duke Energy lobbyist Kathy Hawkins asked Ken Eudy, Gov. Roy Cooper’s senior adviser, to help expedite a state official’s signature on an agreement tied to Duke’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline project.
Published: Monday, July 22nd, 2019 @ 10:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced its seventh-annual Team Academic Excellence Awards, naming ECU to the list for the first time in program history.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 2:01 pm
By: ECU Sports
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Entering its sixth season in the American Athletic Conference, ECU has been selected to finish fifth in the East Division of the AAC as voted on by members of the media.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 8:41 am
By: ECU Sports
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ECU's Alec Burleson was officially named to the 26-man 2019 Collegiate National Team roster USA Baseball officials announced Monday evening. With his selection, it marks the second consecutive summer a Pirate will play for the Collegiate National Team following Jake Agnos and Bryant Packard in 2018.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 2:14 pm
By: ECU Sports
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U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and N.C. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest this week gathered a roundtable of school-choice advocates to pitch Education Freedom Scholarships.
Published: Saturday, July 20th, 2019 @ 12:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Beaufort County NOW, Symbiotic Network's (SNI) proud proprietary creation, is open for the business of the region of northeastern North Carolina, and to continue to provide the public it's only original Moderated Informational Platform for the expression and promotion of people, products, places.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2019 @ 2:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The pervasiveness of summer vacation in music, film, and TV is indicative of the remarkable role it plays in the life of Americans.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 2:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A trio of ECU men's basketball student-athletes were honored by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) as it released its 2018-19 NABC Honors Court.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 1:50 pm
By: ECU Sports
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On Wednesday evening, July 17, President Donald J. Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence came to Minges Coliseum, home of the ECU Pirates' men's and women's basketball teams, to continue kicking off his 2020 presidential campaign ("Keep America Great!").
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 11:22 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Republican U.S. Senate challenger Garland Tucker has made double-digit gains on incumbent Thom Tillis, according to new polling data from the Tucker camp.
Published: Saturday, July 20th, 2019 @ 4:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers, after so many fits and starts, finally persuaded enough of their nervous colleagues to vote to begin fixing North Carolina’s archaic and broken system of governing alcohol, a move some 80 years in the making.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2019 @ 11:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Former ECU pitcher Jake Agnos has been named the American Athletic Conference Male and Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year the league office announced Tuesday morning.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 1:29 pm
By: ECU Sports
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The loudest proponents of alcohol reform in North Carolina — lawmakers such as Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, and Sen. Rick Gunn, R-Alamance — now have their colleagues’ unwavering attention.
Published: Friday, July 19th, 2019 @ 1:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Rep. Holly Grange, a New Hanover County Republican, made it official. She’s running in 2020 for governor.
Published: Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @ 2:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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“The Nature Principle” by Richard Louv has been selected as the 2019 Pirate Read at East Carolina University.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2019 @ 6:12 pm
By: ECU News Services
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After slogging through a mass of statistical data and redistricting jargon, day three of Common Cause v. Lewis brought the court back to the fundamental questions: the constitutionality of Republicans’ gerrymandered maps and the legal implications of the controversial Hofeller files.
Published: Thursday, July 18th, 2019 @ 2:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A dispute over a K-3 reading contract is heating up after the company at the center of the controversy, Istation, sent a cease-and-desist letter to three people who have publicly criticized a decision to grant the contract to Istation.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 6:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We have a codependent relationship - the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly and myself.
Published: Saturday, July 20th, 2019 @ 8:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Construction started on the largest public driving pad in North Carolina, and Beaufort County Community College celebrated with a groundbreaking ceremony.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 4:47 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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