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If you are like me and have small caliber handguns to carry with your new permit and your retired consultant police officer does not like pocket carry holsters, I see no reason to pay for a Sneaky Pete holster when $7 options are available.
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 @ 1:42 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Power plays are seldom pretty. Republicans have the political power in our state, but just because you have power doesn't mean you have to use it
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 @ 1:19 am
By: Tom Campbell
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If you're a Conservative or Republican there's a lot to like in the state budget.
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 @ 1:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I see an opportunity here. In order to capitalize on our Gluten Hysteria, someone ought to come out with a product that is called, 100% Gluten Free Gluten.
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2016 @ 3:23 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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It's flattering when the executive editor of the News & Observer calls to ask if he could meet me to discuss a column I'd written
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2016 @ 3:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Events for the week of December 27, 2016
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2016 @ 3:10 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Verna Lee "Honey" Brotchie, age 91, a former resident of Washington, NC, died Monday December 26. 2016 at River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2016 @ 12:18 pm
By: Announcements
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Although North Carolina encompasses many islands, our state is certainly not an island when it comes to economic growth and social development
Published: Tuesday, December 27th, 2016 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A controversial Oct. 15 resolution passed by the national board of the NAACP calling for a nationwide moratorium on public charter schools has led some North Carolina lawmakers and school-choice advocates to question whether the NAACP is more beholden to powerful lobbies
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 9:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What do the $15 minimum wage, Obamacare, and proposed gun control laws all have in common? Of course, we could say, uncontroversially, that they are all policies supported by progressives and at least in part form the backbone of modern day progressivism's policy agenda
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If I could predict the onset of America's next recession with precision, I wouldn't tell you about it. I'd become a money manager and make a pile of it by timing the market
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 6:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State health officials encourage North Carolinians to take health and safety precautions during the winter months
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 6:27 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Mr. Thomas Bragg Chrismon, age 79, a resident of 811 River Rd., Washington, died Sunday December 25, 2016 at his home.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:50 pm
By: Announcements
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Lt. Col. Edwin E. Robbins, U.S. Army-Ret., age 83, a resident of 661 East Water Street, Belhaven, died at his home, Friday, December 23, 2016. Born in Washington, NC., he was known locally as "June Bug."
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:45 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Margie Woolard Stevens, age 57, a resident of 218 Woolard Lane, Washington, died Friday December 23, 2016 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:40 pm
By: Announcements
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Susan Louise Constantine Lemay, age 68, a resident of Hudnell Street, Washington, died Thursday, December 22, 2016 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:33 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Alberta Boyd Hodges, aged 98, was a resident of Arapahoe, NC and passed away at Grantsbrook Nursing Center on Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:28 pm
By: Announcements
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The ability to succeed in higher education - as defined by college readiness - has been one of the stated goals of the State Board of Education for every student in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At last, the rabbit patch declares that the Christmas season is upon us. There is a wreath on every door with little twinkling lights that brighten the late autumn fog.
Published: Sunday, December 25th, 2016 @ 11:43 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The lovely December moon has risen over the field, supper is cooked and I am in another session of gift wrapping.
Published: Sunday, December 25th, 2016 @ 12:11 am
By: Michele Rhem
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The "Freedom in the 50 States" report, now published by the Cato Institute, uses hundreds of datasets to rank states by fiscal, regulatory, and personal freedom.
Published: Saturday, December 24th, 2016 @ 10:53 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Goose Creek State Park Calendar of Events for January, February, 2017
Published: Saturday, December 24th, 2016 @ 6:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The term "justice" stands pretty well on its own. But attempts to add a qualifying adjective to "justice" can prove problematic
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 5:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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All is merry and bright at the rabbit patch. There is a Christmas tree by the farmhouse window -and at long last-full of shining lights.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 2:50 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The evidence is undeniable: North Carolina has outperformed regional and national averages in most standard measures of economic growth, including job creation, gross domestic product, and personal income, since conservatives took control of state government
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The most important business of the people in the first meeting of a singular political /governmental year is the selection of the board's chairman. Almost always, maybe always, it sets the roles of certain commissioners to do the people's business for the balance of the year.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 2:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Please note AOP will be closed on December 25 & Monday as usual. Bring your family & visitors by for a visit & tour when AOP reopens on December 27 at 10 AM
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 2:12 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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This is a short 3 minute appeal for funds to save the Snowflakes who are having trouble adjusting to the recent election.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 1:02 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) releases the following statement
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 12:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Some East Carolina University construction management alumni are working on the biggest project ever built on campus
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 12:22 pm
By: ECU News Services
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NC Capitol Connection provides an overview of yesterday’s contentious special session called to repeal HB 2.
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 11:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In his new video "Just Say 'Merry Christmas,'" Dennis Prager argues that efforts to replace "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" are misguided. In the name of "inclusivity," he says, we are excluding the roughly 90 percent of Americans who celebrate Christmas
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 11:26 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Mr. George Frank Moore, Jr., age 63, a resident of Litton Lane, Suffolk, Va., died Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at his home
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 11:06 am
By: Announcements
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