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It wouldn't make much sense to buy beer for alcoholics in an effort to reduce alcoholism. So why is the state using tax dollars to mail garbage to suspected litterers?
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 8:08 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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We’ve learned that there just might be a crony capitalism angle in the amnesty fight for at least one powerful House Republican.
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 8:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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According to Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, President Obama's plan to excuse the illegal action of millions of immigrants not unlike Abraham Lincoln's effort to free slaves.
Published: Thursday, December 4th, 2014 @ 3:52 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Terry Holland, who led the East Carolina University athletics department during one of the Pirates' most successful periods, was honored by the school today as it named one of its sports venues after him.
Published: Wednesday, November 26th, 2014 @ 10:52 pm
By: ECU News Services
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North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and First Lady Ann McCrory invite you to celebrate the joy of the Christmas season in the Blue Ridge Mountains for the annual Holiday Open House at the Governor's Western Residence.
Published: Thursday, November 27th, 2014 @ 3:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Swaying to the sounds of some of the most iconic songs in American history, Julian Bond drove home a message: when it came to race relations during some of the last century's most tumultuous years, music defied bounds.
Published: Sunday, November 23rd, 2014 @ 12:35 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University seniors Robert DiDomenico and Amanda Higgins are pulling double duty in the upcoming production of "Kiss Me, Kate."
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 11:19 am
By: ECU News Services
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Years ago in the day of big movies shot with a majestic country and big social movements behind them, Steve McQueen starred in "The Sand Pebbles."
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 7:07 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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In 2011, Barack Obama said he did not have the constitutional authority to do what he is going to announce today.
Published: Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 @ 8:33 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Brandon Smith spotted a flowering plant he liked that was growing in the landscaping outside Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium and wondered what it was. He thought the plant would look good in the yard of his Greenville home. So he pulled out his phone and took a picture of it.
Published: Friday, November 21st, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Two Bolivian hearts were mended, and many local hearts warmed, over the past few weeks, thanks to a partnership between the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Vidant Medical Center and Samaritan's Purse's Children's Heart Project.
Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: ECU News Services
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Goose Creek State Park Calendar of Events for November, December, 2014.
Published: Friday, November 21st, 2014 @ 10:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It was a clear beautiful, royal blue sky day on Wall Street. The S & P futures were up markedly, awaiting a positive open, as I turn to get my first cup of coffee. I return to CNBC to get the morning business news, when I notice that the S & P futures are falling, and they're falling fast.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2025 @ 3:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Our proprietary Content Management System, Symbiotic Publisher, which powers Beaufort County NOW, has just gone through a major upgrade, and we are done for now. We will be adjusting BCN's template to one that can be more easily replicated and hopefully fully Responsive to all devices.
Published: Thursday, November 27th, 2014 @ 10:46 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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East Carolina University brick mason and U.S. Army veteran Ron Causey is proud to have helped build the Memorial Walk that honors service members.
Published: Saturday, November 15th, 2014 @ 10:03 am
By: ECU News Services
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An influential actress, producer, speaker and LGBT advocate brought an empowering message of moving beyond gender expectations and embracing differences to East Carolina University on Nov. 12.
Published: Friday, November 14th, 2014 @ 1:48 pm
By: ECU News Services
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East Carolina University remembered those who sacrificed and served during a Veterans Day ceremony on Nov. 11. "This day is about honoring service above self," said Dr. Steve Duncan, assistant vice chancellor and director of military programs at ECU.
Published: Sunday, November 16th, 2014 @ 9:20 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Beaufort County, here in Eastern North Carolina, is sparsely populated county that is deceptively lovely if you know where to look.
Published: Sunday, November 30th, 2014 @ 8:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Pretty Much. It started back it 2007, when Community Organizer Obama convinced most Democrats and squishy moderates that he was competent and capable of commanding this American ship, listing solidly left, too far left.
Published: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 @ 7:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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ECU marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War by installing and then tearing down a replica wall Nov. 3 – 6 on the brickyard near Mendenhall Student Center. The wall divided the city of Berlin, but also stood as a symbol for ongoing political...
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Many of us can remember the 'double rainbow, moment for the Yosemite junkie made famous on Youtube a few years back.
Published: Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 @ 10:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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After state legislators approved a ten percent reduction to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction's (DPI) $70 million budget, state education officials and their boosters sounded the alarm.
Published: Tuesday, November 11th, 2014 @ 5:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is absolutely amazing how many people have reacted to the recently completed elections in the same fashion as they would to athletic events. Yay, Blue Devils! Yay, Panthers! Yay, Thom!
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 11:04 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Five years after they graduated, 35 of the 70 members of the Brody School of Medicine's Class of 2008 were practicing primary care medicine. Among the four medical schools in North Carolina, that's the best rate of producing the kind of doctors the state needs most, according to an annual report...
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 6:08 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Infrequent Screenwriter / Director Cameron Crowe made another indelible mark in this film about himself, and how he did, or may would have interacted with notable Rock 'n' Roll artists, who humorously struggle to become dysfunctional Rock 'n' Roll stars.
Published: Thursday, December 30th, 2021 @ 2:53 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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"But Now he's (Wyatt) going to be a marshal and an outlaw. Best of both worlds, son." These words were spoken by a tubercular Doc Holliday, played by a gaunt 145 pound Dennis Quaid.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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"Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam" This refrain from Dave Dudley's country ditty, an integral melody in the soundtrack of the classic "Full Metal Jacket" regarding a more patriotic approach to the Vietnam predicament.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Polish immigrant Leonard Chess wanted a better life, and he built it on the talented backs of some pretty good musicians, like Muddy Waters, Etta James, Howl'n Wolfe, Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry.
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 3:13 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Just the film title itself, "Pulp Fiction" denotes a lightweight film. If one dissects the story, the message, the importance of the film, "Pulp Fiction" comes up light.
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 12:10 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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This tiny independent film is an enigma. It is also one of the ten most important indies in the last 25 years for one reason: It could not have survived, and prospered without its singular visionary.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 1:58 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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I always wanted to know an Atticus Finch, and yet I never quite met him. I never found him in any of my coaches, my teachers, my friends, the fathers of my friends.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 10:44 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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On 11-6-2014, at approximately 2230 hours, Patrol Deputies with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office responded to a shots fired called at the residence of Rolando Cariaga, 33 years of age, of 910 Carrow Road in Chocowinity.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 3:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Recently, I posted a pictorial on what is small to the eye, but large within the camera lens, which well expressed nature, adding a few examples of the whole 'Birds and the Bees' thing ... well, mostly bees.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 3:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Students and teachers from P.S. Jones Middle School came face-to-face with a creature from the deep ocean Tuesday during a tour of the Beaufort County Community College campus.
Published: Thursday, November 6th, 2014 @ 5:45 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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