The counties of Beaufort, Bertie, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell Washington and Wayne along with the Cities of Goldsboro and Washington were invited to attend an organizational meeting for a "Joint Land Use Policy Committee for the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base".
Published: Sunday, March 23rd, 2014 @ 10:48 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The new Beaufort County jail with sheriff’s offices, magistrates offices, 911 offices, possibly a courtroom, and maybe a gym is moving slowly forward.
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 1:13 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Why does the Left oppose school choice? It can't be because they oppose tax dollars going to private, even faith-based institutions. For decades, state and federal subsidies have flowed to private colleges and universities, including sectarian institutions. For decades, Medicare and Medicaid...
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bill Moyers - for many years an advocate on television for liberal causes - recently gave North Carolina a lesson in how to disguise bias and distortions as news, and we should pay attention to how he did it.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 11:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The liars in the remnants of our state's mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A battle over the North Carolina State Endowment Fund's right to sell its 123-square mile forest to an Illinois-based agribusiness firm appears to have ended. On Friday, a Wake County Superior Court judge ruled that the sale could proceed without an environmental impact statement, which a group...
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 10:22 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A new report from State Auditor Beth Wood says that the State Surplus Property office likely isn't getting all the revenue it could for taxpayers because of its bidding process, and suggests that the office move to an online bidding process similar to eBay.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 10:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Leaked email, UNC BOG nominations cause problems for NCGOP, bumps in the road for Senator-in-WaitingFor years, the UNC Board of Governors has been known as a popular destination for political cronies seeking patronage payoffs. Though, recent scandals within the university system had prompted state Republicans to talk up the idea of shaking the place up.
Published: Sunday, July 28th, 2013 @ 2:28 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Gov. Pat McCrory's Medicaid reform plan marks a "critical step forward" to help create a pro-patient, pro-taxpayer health care safety net. That's the conclusion...
Published: Friday, June 7th, 2013 @ 11:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I know we call ourselves "daily," but we're only human. Sometimes we need to stop and smell the roses. The staff and I did just that for the Memorial Day weekend.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 11:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As Gov. Pat McCrory moves ahead with attempts to fix what he calls an irreversibly broken Medicaid system fraught with cost overruns and mismanagement...
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The mission statement of Dix306.org, a lobbying group pushing to preserve a lease struck in December between the Perdue administration and the city of Raleigh, reads...
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democrats' last minute sweetheart deal to hand over Dix hospital property to the city of Raleigh is collapsing, and boys are those lefties upset.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 9:46 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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There are a lot of folks (me among them) who believe that when your negotiation includes Richard Trumka across the table and Chuckie S. moderating, you don't have much of a chance of coming out anywhere near even.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 6:14 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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I take this opportunity to express my thanks to all of the many people who have worked the last two years to help us promote the agenda of the Republican Party and to bring you up to date on some of the recent history of our County party.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 12:44 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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When Gov. Pat McCrory released his first state budget plan on the morning March 20, I happened to be driving to Charlotte for a meeting.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 @ 10:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It seems like ages ago, but there was once a RINO herd in Beaufort County, and it formed once to stamp out principled Conservatives.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2013 @ 6:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Still puzzled about how North Carolina can rank so highly on some national measures of business climate, and still have among the worst-performing economies in the country?
Published: Friday, July 27th, 2012 @ 9:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What Led Self-professed Conservative Walter Jones to Endorse Self-professed Liberal Arthur Williams?This system worked quite well; they were a great team - Ed was unbeatable and Arthur was to be the ascending Democrat in one local seat or another, after Ed retired, and Ed did one day retire.
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2012 @ 1:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On May 7, 2012 the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners began to clean up the mess which local economic development had become during the last decade of unsupervised cronyism.
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 9:19 am
By: Warren Smith
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On Thursday, March 8th, 2012 at 12:30 pm at the front door of the Beaufort County Courthouse, 102 W. 2nd St., Washington , N. C., a sale to the last highest bidder will be conducted for one parcel of approximately 80.0 acres of land located on the east side of Cherry Run Road, Washington, NC.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2012 @ 5:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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As might be expected, the text of the Magna Carta of 1215 bears many traces of haste, and is clearly the product of much bargaining and many hands.
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 @ 12:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Every Friday, a list of the current foreclosure inventory in Beaufort County is compiled for your reference.
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2011 @ 10:30 am
By: Leslie Schneider
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