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Social media has conditioned us all into making instant decisions on the whim of the moment. Almost every medium of the electronic media has a feature to Like, Share, Comment, or Copy which allows the reader to engage in the process.
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2017 @ 8:44 am
By: Bobby Tony
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These Silver Half Dollars sell for $80 today. You will easily find more information on laptops. Funds were raised in 1925 but real progress was delayed until the 60s.
Published: Tuesday, July 25th, 2017 @ 12:40 am
By: Ted McDonald
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The problem here in America is that the citizenry deserves the 1st Amendment right to a "free press", but not a fair press, and while that is constitutionally true, the "free press" still is responsible for some semblance of principled behavior, or those of an unprinciple nature lose respect.
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 12:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A recent article on Beaufort County Now impressed me with the short sighted vision of many companies regarding Employee Training and Apprenticeship programs.
Published: Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 @ 8:34 am
By: Bobby Tony
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It's now a full-scale debate - about property rights, the free market, and, in fact, freedom of choice
Published: Saturday, July 1st, 2017 @ 10:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Summer is here and there are many great events coming to AOP over the next few months
Published: Saturday, July 1st, 2017 @ 7:31 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina lawmakers have given the green light to a bill protecting free speech at public universities
Published: Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 5:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Harry Truman had his issues, particularly when it came to his daughter and their hounding of his politics. "I don't give them Hell, I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell." - Harry Truman
Published: Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 @ 4:00 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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This fall, East Carolina University Honors College alumnus Thomas Vaughn '15 will join the National Weather Service in Wichita, Kansas as one of 31 new hires by the federal agency that is responsible for providing weather, water and climate data, forecasts and warnings across the country
Published: Thursday, June 29th, 2017 @ 1:56 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, gave an impassioned defense of the $23 billion bipartisan General Fund budget compromise Wednesday morning, and the House quickly followed his motion to override Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of the spending plan in a 76-43 vote
Published: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've noticed breathtaking naivete displayed through forum letters and articles recently.
Published: Saturday, July 1st, 2017 @ 7:18 am
By: Diane Rufino
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East Carolina University dermatology resident Dr. Randall Proctor likes to take his family to the beach, but he's careful to make sure they're protected from the sun's rays
Published: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017 @ 2:25 pm
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina distillers could begin seeing a significant boost in sales as visitors as early as this coming weekend
Published: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017 @ 1:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina excise tax on distilled spirits has risen to the fifth-highest in the country, according to recent data from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2017 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University (ECU) has named a new dean for the Brody School of Medicine and senior associate vice chancellor for medical affairs for the Division of Health Sciences
Published: Sunday, July 16th, 2017 @ 11:27 am
By: ECU News Services
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One of the tricks of the mind is that we remember things like a snapshot. After a few years our image of the past is cast in indelible concrete like an old picture in the shoe box up in the attic or a statue in the town square
Published: Thursday, June 29th, 2017 @ 9:45 am
By: Bobby Tony
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An East Carolina University faculty member will team up with researchers at Memphis and Temple to improve the well-being of student-athletes in the American Athletic Conference
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2017 @ 1:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina Chief Justice Mark Martin isn't happy with the way state judges get on the bench
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2017 @ 9:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At a Monday news conference, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would veto the state budget
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2017 @ 8:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The East Carolina University Police Department gained four new officers as Adrian Baker, Jonathan Bryant, Meagan Johnson and Megan Johnson were sworn in during a ceremony held on Wednesday, June 21 at the Greenville Centre
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2017 @ 4:21 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Ken Burns' documentaries give us great history lessons and the CSA letters personify the history.
Published: Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 12:51 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Recently, I wrote about a lesser known truth that I write poetry - when I was young on scraps of paper - now that I am older, and have the means to database these words in message for all posterity, I do it here.
Published: Wednesday, June 28th, 2017 @ 3:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Belhaven's annual fourth of July celebration for 2017 is scheduled and the events are listed here.
Published: Tuesday, July 4th, 2017 @ 9:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The President's Travel Ban has been temporarily reinstated, in part, while the Supreme Court reviews the case that was blocked heretofore by liberal Activist Judges from ultra liberal states.
Published: Saturday, July 1st, 2017 @ 7:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University graduate students Molly Albecker, Spencer Miller and Kenyann Stanford traveled with their mentors and ECU Graduate School faculty to Raleigh as representatives for North Carolina Graduate Education Day held May 16 at the Legislative Building
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2017 @ 10:12 am
By: ECU News Services
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Gertrude Respess claims Wilkinson Solar, and its parent company Invenergy Solar Development, last year took advantage of her dying husband Rhonda to obtain farmland for a large solar installation in Beaufort County
Published: Monday, June 26th, 2017 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, used Gov. Roy Cooper's own words to urge him to sign a $23 billion General Fund budget, reminding him the N.C. Constitution gives more power to the General Assembly than the executive branch
Published: Sunday, June 25th, 2017 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mark Walker is a Baptist minister, so his explanation as to why he and other Republican congressmen survived a mass assassination attempt isn't surprising
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2017 @ 11:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory says Roy Cooper, his Democratic successor, is repaying his trial lawyer campaign contributors by hiring them for expensive, politically motivated lawsuits against the GOP-led General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, June 20th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Core Democrats and the Democrat Media have long proved that if not for the Double Standard, they would have no standards at all. At the core of their
Published: Monday, July 3rd, 2017 @ 6:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A state Superior Court panel and the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt Gov. Roy Cooper and his political allies two setbacks
Published: Sunday, June 18th, 2017 @ 9:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Like many great scientific discoveries, Daniel Wilkinson's came almost by accident
Published: Sunday, June 18th, 2017 @ 10:51 am
By: ECU News Services
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