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As children of the 1980s now having our own kids, we often look back at our own childhoods and think: "I can't believe my parents let me do that." Parenting back in the 1980s was simply a different ball game than parenting today.
Published: Saturday, February 17th, 2024 @ 3:32 am
By: Babylon Bee
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"We watched what middle class was in the 80s and 90s."
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2024 @ 1:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In recent elections, North Carolina has often been referred to as a battleground state. In some ways, that was the case in the late 1780s. On November 21, 1789, North Carolina approved the U.S. Constitution. It was not a quick decision.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 8:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Joe Biden attempted to downplay widespread supply chain issues across the country this holiday season by suggesting that it is similar to past years when popular toys were not widely available.
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2022 @ 10:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Most people think the Satanic Daycare Panic took place in the 1980s, but it stretched into the early 90s as well.
Published: Sunday, April 17th, 2022 @ 1:29 am
By: Daily Wire
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A mash-up of ’80s pop-punk and Elizabethan style comes together in “Head Over Heels,” a musical opening Wednesday at East Carolina University.
Published: Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 @ 2:25 pm
By: ECU News Services
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In the 1980s and 90s, a serial killer and rapist terrorized Paris, France. Last week, he was finally identified as a retired French police officer.
Published: Saturday, November 20th, 2021 @ 7:33 am
By: Daily Wire
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Those of us who remember actor Rob Lowe’s exploits in the 1980s are likely to be at least a bit surprised by positive coverage of Lowe at National Review Online.
Published: Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 @ 2:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As Tears for Fears sang in the 1980s, everybody wants their taxes lower.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Former East Carolina basketball coach Charlie Harrison, who guided the Pirates for five seasons in the 1980s, passed away on Monday, April 13, at the age of 70.
Published: Saturday, April 18th, 2020 @ 9:04 am
By: ECU Sports
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Supreme Court in February to hear appeal of law blocking development in highway corridors... When Gene Kirby bought nearly 42 acres of land along High Point Road in the early 1980s, he envisioned eventually going into business with his son and building apartments on the property.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When East Carolina University's production of "Rent" opens Nov. 19, the audience will return to the 1980s thanks to the backstage work of Rebecca Johnson and Delta Smith.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:59 am
By: ECU News Services
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To the extent that Roy Cooper has a reasonable chance of defeating Gov. Pat McCrory for reelection, it's because many of his fellow Democrats failed in their efforts to change the electoral process in 1980s and early 1990s.
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 @ 4:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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During the 1970s and 1980s, America saw a growing federal deficit that caused states to react. North Carolina rewrote its constitution in 1971, and as part of that constitution the state is required to pass a 'balanced budget.' More specifically, the state's total expenditures cannot exceed its...
Published: Friday, January 30th, 2015 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the 80s and 90s, Democrats worked really hard to make voting easier for their lazy, shiftless, poorly-educated target market.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 8:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The first and only time I ever helped take a political survey was during my undergraduate days at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill back in the 1980s. I was one of many journalism students who made phone calls on behalf of the Carolina Poll, a regular survey of North Carolinians on...
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 5:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My title has two meanings. The first is that, since the 1980s at least, what calls itself literary criticism has consisted largely of abstract theory, less concerned with literature than with itself.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The last commander of Fort Fisher before its surrender to occupying Union forces, James Reilly's postwar years reveals the bond that many former Confederate and Union soldiers exhibited during the 1880s and 1890s.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. Jeffrey Ferguson was having a quiet summer afternoon recently when a call came in on his radio. A person had called 9-1-1 reporting that a female relative in her 80s was complaining of stroke-like symptoms. The caller was in a nearby neighborhood.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2013 @ 7:28 am
By: ECU News Services
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During the years that North Carolina was riding high - particularly the 1980s and 1990s - state policymakers wrung their hands about the problems associated with a fast-growing, successful economy.
Published: Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although Raleigh is a much different state capital than it was when I started writing about politics in the late 1980s - the ratios of plaids to pinstripes...
Published: Monday, February 4th, 2013 @ 8:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If your tenure in our state stretches back no further than the early 1980s, you may not be aware of the fact North Carolina's license plates used to say "First in Freedom" rather than "First in Flight."
Published: Thursday, January 31st, 2013 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Pentagon budget is a popular target of leftists when the whole concept of cutting spending gets raised. Stories from the 80s about alleged $2000 toilet seats are recycled.
Published: Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 @ 2:10 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The Shakedown is one of the area's top variety bands, blending various musical styles into one cohesive groove.
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2011 @ 2:28 pm
By: Announcements
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