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The N.C. Court of Appeals will decide in Zander v. Orange County whether the county must refund millions of dollars in school impact fees collected since 2009.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023 @ 9:24 am
By: Carole Warnecki
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James Cameron, acclaimed director of Avatar, a 2009 movie about estrogen-infused Smurfs, is releasing the much-anticipated sequel in theaters worldwide.
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2022 @ 4:27 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Mail-in voting, which has substantially changed results around the country since it was widely implemented in 2020 during the COVID crisis, has been pushed by the Democratic Party for over a decade.
Published: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022 @ 6:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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In 2009, then-Vice President Joe Biden told the nation the federal government had to spend money to keep from going bankrupt.
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2022 @ 11:16 am
By: Daily Wire
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I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2022 @ 6:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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For years, even before Mr. Trump was elected, I was witnessing a mighty "sea change" in the American spirit of patriotism and overall collective intellect, which began to wane in 2009, and has now devolved into a condition that concerns me greatly.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 1:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For the few years that the Turnage Theater did operate as an ongoing concern, they did book at least one Christmas show each year. In 2009, they booked, and I did attend "Christmas the Cowboy Way, featuring the Riders in the Sky.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 8:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Touching film full of life lessons, with more than its share of unforced humor, "The Blind Side" was easily one of the best films of 2009.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 5:31 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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John Tien previously served in the Obama Administration as the National Security Council Senior Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2009-2011.
Published: Wednesday, April 14th, 2021 @ 6:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On November 28, 2009, Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada ran out of his parents’ Council Bluffs, Iowa, home without shoes during a snowstorm. They never saw him again.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 1:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
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District Court Judge Pell Cooper, Gov. Roy Cooper's brother, manages three businesses - an apparent violation of state judicial rules designed to prevent conflicts of interest by judges. In 2009, state officials forced another district court judge who refused to leave two corporate boards to resign
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As most of you may know, I take education very seriously.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 2:30 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The last term of George W. Bush was an unmitigated disaster. When Barack Hussein Obama took office in January, 2009, it was a fast ride, unabated, downhill, and it just would not cease.
Published: Thursday, December 1st, 2016 @ 11:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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In 2009, the General Assembly passed a law prohibiting online bullying of juveniles. The rarely-used law recently was struck down as unconstitutional, with the N.C. Supreme Court holding that the poorly worded law violates First Amendment free-speech rights
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2016 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I published this Blog Posting on January 1, 2009. It really is a history lesson. You remember history. They used to teach a lot of it in our schools.
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 11:56 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In 2015, the city of Raleigh spent $4.62 million on on-road bikeways. Between 2009 and 2015, Raleigh grew its bikeways from 73 miles to 179 miles
Published: Monday, July 25th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) has signed onto a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Interior, asking for all correspondence relating to federal lands that were considered, analyzed, or designated as national monuments since January 20, 2009.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's $1.1 trillion dollars. It's 2009 pages. It was written by FOUR lawmakers and a bunch of lobbyists.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 4:34 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Back in 2009, when I started my radio talk show, I knew that President Obama would be one of the worst presidents this nation has ever had.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 5:47 am
By: Rod Eccles
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North Carolina's largest cities dealt with nearly 240 economic development contracts and promised $65 million in incentives from 2009 to 2014
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 7:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Back during the CB craze almost every city had a CB handle. Tampa was the Cigar City and probably still is, but its biggest cigar producer closed down in 2009.
Published: Sunday, September 20th, 2015 @ 9:56 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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In 2008-2009, a legal battle took place in Guildford County Superior Court over whether third-party investigations into city police department are subject to our state's public records law. The issue is one of great importance for advocates of government transparency, as citizens have a right to...
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2015 @ 12:12 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Beaufort County NOW (BCN) did not have its best month to date, but it did have it's third best month so far this year, which means it was our third best month since we began it September, 2009. We'll take it.
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 4:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. counties entered into incentives contracts totaling nearly $284 million from 2009 to 2014, according to a first-of-its-kind John Locke Foundation Policy Report compiling statewide local incentives data. The report shows actual incentives payments totaled $144 million over the same five-year per
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 2:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2009, the General Assembly passed a law prohibiting cyberbullying - the use of the Internet or social media networks for deliberate harassment - of minors.
Published: Friday, July 10th, 2015 @ 2:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States economy expanded at .2% for the first quarter, 2015, which is better than zero expansion in GDP (Gross Domestic Product), which is better than negative expansion, but not an economy that anyone should be proud of; certainly not the Obama Administration.
Published: Friday, May 8th, 2015 @ 1:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina has transformed from the Pepsi Generation to the Pepto population. In 1950, the median age in our state was 26.5 years. By 1981, it was almost 30 and the N.C. Division of Aging and Adult Services reports it as 36.9 years in 2009.
Published: Sunday, April 12th, 2015 @ 4:10 am
By: Tom Campbell
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From 2009 to 2013, the University of North Carolina system gradually increased its minimum admission standards. Students entering UNC schools this fall had to score at least 800 on combined math and verbal SAT tests to be admitted.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 5:08 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The 2009 so-called "stimulus" passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When the Common Core state standards for K-12 were rolled out in 2009, few foresaw the impact on higher education. Alarms about the takeover of the entire educational system with the new national standards and tests in math and English language arts were often dismissed.
Published: Friday, September 19th, 2014 @ 10:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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William Harding Harris, age 64, formerly of the Acre Station community, Highway 32, Plymouth, NC, died August 11, 2014, from complications of a massive stroke suffered on June 16, 2009.
Published: Friday, August 15th, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: Announcements
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I chose to return to school at the age of thirty-eight. I had been working on the floor for a large manufacturing company when lay-offs began there in late 2008 and I took a small buyout in early 2009 to avoid what was more than likely the ax next.
Published: Tuesday, April 29th, 2014 @ 12:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In 2009, the Pope Center produced a report on the UNC School of the Arts. The report's author, Max Borders, showed that on a per-student basis, UNCSA is North Carolina's most expensive publicly funded university. He concluded that, because of the expense and the school's uncertain economic...
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 12:45 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Senator Kay Hagan appears to be longing for those good ol' pre-2009 days of taxing and spending with Marc and Tony and the gang in the North Carolina Senate.
Published: Saturday, January 11th, 2014 @ 2:12 am
By: Brant Clifton
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It's a far cry from those heady days in 2008 and 2009 when a certain former state senator from Greensboro aspiring to be a US senator was telling us that we were going to eat every bit of our ObamaCare, and we were going to like it.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When she joined the Senate in 2009, Kay Hagan was an enthusiastic cheerleader for ObamaCare.
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2013 @ 6:18 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In a 2009 Pope Center article, Professor Robert Blumenthal poses several questions to parents and prospective college students: "Does the institution [you're considering] have sufficient financial resources to deliver the education it promises? Does it have sufficient operating funds to provide...
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2013 @ 11:03 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Beaufort County Commissioners voted 4 to 3 to move as "quick as is practicable" to effect an earlier property revaluation in order to correct the property values that were the cumulative effect of a revaluation performed in 2009, and enacted on January 2010.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2013 @ 12:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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