Who IS Alex Bradshaw? Politicos from Murphy to Manteo are asking this question.
Published: Monday, March 31st, 2014 @ 9:21 am
By: Brant Clifton
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We got hit with headlines this week suggesting that roadwork across the state could grind to a halt very soon -- thanks to the Federal Highway Trust Fund running out of money
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I wrote an article about ferry tolling last week. That article talked about current events. The issue of a major policy change in funding transportation has been around since at least 2007.
Published: Wednesday, March 5th, 2014 @ 3:34 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Why release hypothetical November matchup results when filing hasn't started and we still have a May primary election?
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2014 @ 11:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When state officials realized they had a clogged and inefficient criminal justice data system following the 2008 murder of former UNC-Chapel Hill Student Body President Eve Carson, they turned to the state controller's office for a solution to the problem.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 9:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Traffic jams happen when too many cars try to traverse too little roadway. Thus there are two main ways to reduce the number of traffic jams. One is to reduce the number of cars trying to travel the same road at the same time. The other is to increase the road capacity that cars can travel.
Published: Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 @ 6:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Anelys Rojas, a young woman from Venezuela who lives in Cary, is learning English. She helped test accessibility at several sites in the Spanish-language travel guide for people with disabilities: ACCESO Carolina del Norte.
Published: Monday, December 9th, 2013 @ 6:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At the precise moment I heard that longtime Republican strategist Jack Hawke had finally lost his battle with cancer, I was editing a book chapter about the 1984 race for North Carolina's governor. It was a pivotal campaign in the state's political history, as the Democratic Party fractured and...
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Don't look now, but North Carolina's long-maligned highway system is showing signs of significant improvement.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Don't look now, but North Carolina's long-maligned highway system is showing signs of significant improvement.
Published: Monday, September 9th, 2013 @ 1:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Adelaide Houston DeRosa, 82, of New Bern, passed away on Sunday, June 30, 2013. Mrs. DeRosa was born on Oct. 21, 1930 in Pantego, NC, the daughter of Laird and Nora Houston. She was a graduate of New Bern High School, class of 1949, and of Craven Community College.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
By: Announcements
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This was supposed to be a great weekend for Thom Tillis. He's presiding over the state House at a historic time for the NCGOP. The state GOP convention was in his neck of the woods.
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 8:55 am
By: Brant Clifton
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What's this about Republicans trying to raise taxes, ah, make that tolls?
Published: Friday, May 31st, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Big Barry in DC and Speaker Thom are getting a real taste of what Tricky Dick Nixon went through in 1974. * It sure blows when people start raising a stink about your heavy-handed iron-fisted management style.*
Published: Friday, May 24th, 2013 @ 11:34 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Guess what? Evidence is suggesting that toll road projects - like the one proposed for I-77 in Mecklenburg County - may not be the budgetary magic bullet that the state bureaucracy is hoping for. ABC NewsChannel 11 has the story.
Published: Sunday, May 19th, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Ernest Gadson, of 810 N. Pierce St., Washington, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at home
Published: Thursday, May 9th, 2013 @ 10:22 am
By: Announcements
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North Carolina legislators seriously talked up tolls on I-95 in 2011 and 2012, but that idea got shot down by Renee Ellmers, Mike McIntyre, a number of legislators with districts along the interstate thoroughfare, and a huge outcry from the citizenry.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 5:57 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Jonathan Worth served as general superintendent of the Fayetteville and Western Plank road beginning in 1856.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 @ 9:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep.-elect Joe Sam Queen, D-Haywood, cannot collect damages worth three times the amount of money his 2010 state Senate opponent spent on television ads in their campaign.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 12:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The average North Carolinian has endured hundreds of broadcast ads, print mailers, emails, phone calls, news stories, and personal visits about politics during the 2012 election cycle.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 12:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The "good roads" state is quickly turning into the "traffic congestion" state. Both rural and urban interstates are poorly maintained and congested.
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 3:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A battle simmering between landowners and deer hunters who use dogs shows no signs of easing. Landowners believe that deer-dog hunters are infringing on their property rights because they have little recourse if hunters let dogs run loose on their land.
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2012 @ 12:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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There's a bipartisan move afoot to cap North Carolina's tax on motor fuels at 37.5 cents a gallon this year, along with some political discussion about cutting the gas tax further in future years.
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 @ 10:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Irene Hodges Gladson, a resident of Chesapeake, Va., passed away peacefully on May 27, 2012, surrounded by her family after a long illness in her 90th year.
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 @ 3:19 pm
By: Announcements
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Public Hearing on ferry tolls to be held on Monday, March 19, 2012 at 7:00 pm Auditorium, Pamlico Community College 5049 Highway 306 South Grantsboro, NC 28529 (in Pamlico County, NC)
Published: Saturday, March 17th, 2012 @ 8:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Your calls and emails are helping!
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2012 @ 2:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Interesting things going on in North Carolina about transportation. We now have toll roads and ferry fees.
Published: Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 @ 7:33 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Robert “Bobby” E. Gladson, 77, a resident of Chocowinity, died Friday, Jan. 20, 2012.
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2012 @ 9:13 am
By: Announcements
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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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The City of Washington Administrative Offices will delay opening until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, due to expected poor driving conditions in the early morning.
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2011 @ 7:34 pm
By: BCN
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Better late than never as we take a pictorial stroll through Washington, North Carolina's Harbor District: Or is it Washigton's Art District?
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2010 @ 10:40 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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