|
Roy Cooper was mending fences. Just not the ones you might have imagined
Published: Monday, May 29th, 2017 @ 4:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Most people will remember April 4, 1968 as the day that Martin Luther King was assassinated. While that was a more histrionically important event, that date will always seired in my mind as the date of a battle we fought in Vietnam. I was only in country for a couple of months and the loss of comr
Published: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 10:20 am
By: Tony Adams
|
|
Many years ago, I copied a chart of the 72 names in Hebrew without definitions from a long forgotten book title.
Published: Wednesday, April 5th, 2017 @ 11:53 am
By: Ted McDonald
|
|
Dr. James Otteson, a business school professor at Wake Forest University, came up with an intriguing idea
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2017 @ 1:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
After I reached that magic number, I no longer had to carry a false ID. A perspective from both ends of the age divide.
Published: Thursday, April 6th, 2017 @ 9:45 am
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
Learning through trial and error is not the best way to gain knowledge. We all need some guidance or we will fall into the Cliché "those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it."
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2017 @ 11:47 pm
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
Answer: When the majority are Republicans. They can't be herded together just for the sake of a win.
Published: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017 @ 10:01 pm
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
"The 26th day of April in each year - commonly known as Memorial Day."
Published: Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 @ 8:31 am
By: Ted McDonald
|
|
If I understand the current law regarding our intelligence agencies ability to legally conduce surveillance, it is broken down into two categories.
Published: Saturday, April 1st, 2017 @ 3:57 am
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
It was a poignant moment in a heartfelt push for stronger laws to prevent opioid addiction
Published: Saturday, March 25th, 2017 @ 3:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Strokes are the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States and the top cause of serious long-term disability, and two East Carolina University biology professors are working to identify genetic markers that indicate greater risk of recurrent stroke
Published: Saturday, March 25th, 2017 @ 1:17 am
By: ECU News Services
|
|
Numerous visits to the gun range supplemented with YouTube videos, has not improved my accuracy. A friend loaned an Air Pistol for backyard practice.
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2017 @ 11:36 pm
By: Ted McDonald
|
|
Senate leaders are proposing a $1 billion middle class tax reduction plan that would lower personal and corporate income taxes, increase mortgage interest deductions, and allow for unlimited medical and charitable tax deductions
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 8:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
Thanks to a recent donation to the College of Business, the Student Pirate Investment Fund is set to go live
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 12:39 am
By: ECU News Services
|
|
Two highly regarded Republican political consultants told an audience of state lawmakers, lobbyists, and renewable-energy entrepreneurs Tuesday they should consider government intervention into the renewable energy market a "slam dunk" conservative issue that wins at the ballot box
Published: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 @ 9:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
After a long and eventful life, the spark plug of Rock and Roll has passed at 90 years old. Perhaps his greatest contribution was his cross over to Rock and Roll. While most of the south was still in the throes of segregation, Chuck stole the musical heart of a whole generation of white kids.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 @ 7:22 pm
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
East Carolina University students on spring break took a trip to the beach, but instead of soaking up rays, helped build a living shoreline to protect habitat
Published: Friday, March 17th, 2017 @ 2:02 pm
By: ECU News Services
|
|
It is not a medical condition but a state of mind. I realize that this may be treading on sacred ground, but if you bear with me you may see my point.
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 1:13 pm
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper sought common ground during his first State of the State address to the Republican-controlled General Assembly on Monday night
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2017 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
I know that many have been anxiously awaiting the next version of the Bobby Tony Dictionary series. Well here is another installment. Most people would start at the front of the alphabet. A and work towards Z, but since I'm dyslexic I'm going the other way
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2017 @ 10:53 pm
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
Between 9 p.m. Feb. 23 and 8 a.m. Feb. 24, 16 students from the College of Engineering and Technology (CET), the College of Business (COB) and other University colleges came together to help launch a company
Published: Thursday, April 20th, 2017 @ 4:55 am
By: ECU News Services
|
|
But you would think it was only invented on November 8, 2016. The word originally was used in horse-racing when it referred to checking all horses in a race by a veterinarian. The original term was to 'VET' because of the examination.
Published: Monday, March 13th, 2017 @ 11:27 am
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
Rep. Jimmy Dixon, R-Duplin, wants to scale back North Carolina’s renewable energy mandates and find out how much renewable power actually goes on the grid.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2017 @ 6:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
She was one of the founding members of the group Sister Sledge, which was another Philadelphia group founded in 1971. Joni and her sisters came from a musical family. Her father was a tap dancer and he mother was an actress. Her grandmother was an opera singer.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2017 @ 5:24 pm
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
Juvenile offenders 16 and older are charged and tried in North Carolina as adults, no matter how minor the offense
Published: Monday, March 27th, 2017 @ 11:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
|
|
It is common for conservatives to use the term 'Fly-Over-Country' to describe that base of support that cannot really be identified with any specific beliefs but seem to all reside somewhere between the two left coasts of New York and California.
Published: Friday, March 10th, 2017 @ 6:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
We are definitely in uncharted political territory here. Trump's "take no prisoners" approach is something we have not seen before from the Republicans.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 8:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
|
|
Don't miss it - March 9 Dueling Pianos Chamber/AOP Fundraiser
Published: Monday, March 6th, 2017 @ 2:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
|