North Carolina requires occupational licensing for more than 700 professions, which generates an absurd amount of bureaucracy and red tape. Occupational licensing forces people to pay a fee, and often go through needless additional training, in order to legally practice their profession in the state
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 8:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A Goldsboro-based organization headed by the Rev. William Barber this year received nearly $350,000 of your tax dollars. Yes, that William Barber — the ringleader of highly partisan political protests against the General Assembly the past few years.
Published: Monday, January 19th, 2015 @ 8:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and William “The Round Rev” Barber have all made a name for themselves by getting in the media and claiming that (1) whitey is keeping the brothers and sisters down, and (2) they, themselves, ARE down with “the struggle.”
Published: Tuesday, December 30th, 2014 @ 5:42 am
By: Brant Clifton
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News of the senseless, tragic ambush murders of two NYPD officers is reverberating across the country.
Published: Friday, December 26th, 2014 @ 10:52 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As early voting opens for the 2014 general election, an attorney representing the state in the lawsuit fighting state election law reforms is seeking further information regarding statements made earlier this month by the Rev. William Barber at the state NAACP convention.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 2:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yep. That's the verdict handed down by Washington Post columnist and drive-by media pundit E.J. Dionne regarding our US Senate race this year.
Published: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We've had judges try to tell us that Jefferson, Adams & co. all created a right to taxpayer-funded abortion when they drafted our Constitution.
Published: Friday, October 10th, 2014 @ 7:20 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Most preachers are pretty busy with church stuff on Sundays. Not the most-holy-of-holies, reverend Bill Barber, though. The Round Rev was busy preening in front of the slobbering sycophants and their cameras
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 12:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Recent comments from Rev. William Barber, self-appointed spokesman for the “Moral Monday” protests and leader of the NC state chapter of the NAACP, confirm that his vision for society endorses an aggressive use of violence against innocent individuals, and seeks to negate morality itself.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 6:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Mrs. Barbara Marie Lounsbury LaBarbera, age 78, a resident of 101 Cowan Street, Washington, died Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:52 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Barbara Marie Lounsbury LaBarbera, age 78, a resident of Washington, NC died Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 11:47 am
By: Announcements
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We've had that rotund, jheri-curled oaf Bill Barber out there for months hollering about the white Republicans on Jones Street.
Published: Saturday, June 21st, 2014 @ 6:41 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The so-called legislative short session kicks off on Jones Street Wednesday. The N&O has already started smooching Phil Berger's posterior.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Just try to implement some kind of frugality in public education budgets. You'll get all kinds of teeth-gnashing, wailing and crying about starving tha lil' chil'ren.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 1:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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At a community meeting at Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven, Dr. David Herman, president and CEO of Vidant Health, unveiled more details about the agreement to keep Vidant Pungo Hospital open and to transfer ownership of the hospital to the Belhaven community.
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 10:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The April 1st closing date for Vidant Pungo Hospital is rapidly approaching.
Published: Sunday, March 30th, 2014 @ 10:20 am
By: Betty Murphy
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Get in line in Greensboro. They're handing out money and they're not saying no. That's not just the view of a few cynical observers. One City Council member expressed that sentiment during debate over a $1.9 million incentive for a proposed $40 million downtown hotel.
Published: Tuesday, March 4th, 2014 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Rev. William Barber, president of the NC NAACP and initiator of the Moral Monday protests, continued his attack Tuesday on what he called "a monster voter suppression bill" and likened efforts to award Opportunity Scholarships to children from low-income families to segregationist actions of...
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 12:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Any political movement that can turn out tens of thousands of protesters on a chilly morning in February must be deemed impressive.
Published: Friday, February 14th, 2014 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last month, in a sermon the media described as "fire and thunder," the Rev. William Barber, head of the NC NAACP, mounted the pulpit of Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and began to excoriate all things political - to the right.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 9:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Former Charlotte TV news anchor and radio talk show host Vince Coakley announced Tuesday that he plans to run as a Republican for the 12th congressional district seat vacated by quasi-Marxist race pimp Mel Watt.
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 2:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At an hour when many children her age are sitting down to complete their homework, seven-year-old Mckinsey Burt tosses her book bag aside and sprints down a basketball court at East Carolina University.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Apparently, our esteemed state attorney general learned NOTHING from the Duke lacrosse case.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 8:10 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Yep. *The civil rights movement sure has come a long way.* Tim Scott, a black South Carolinian whose life epitomizes what MLK was talking about in his famous 1963 speech, is being attacked by one of the alleged heirs of King's legacy.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 11:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Teacher pay and other education spending are supposed to dominate the upcoming short session at the General Assembly.
Published: Tuesday, January 21st, 2014 @ 8:35 am
By: Brant Clifton
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"You get what you pay for" goes one popular old adage. And in North Carolina, it appears that we had for some time been paying to secure one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. But lo and behold, when you stop paying people not to work, more people actually go back to work.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When I first heard about what happened Monday night in Rocky Mount, I couldn't believe it. A reader from the Rocky Mount area tipped me off to an incident at that night's city council meeting. He directed me to this video, which details it in all its, um, glory.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 12:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The head of the state's NAACP said the civil rights organization is broadening its lawsuit against North Carolina's new voter ID law and election law changes.
Published: Monday, January 13th, 2014 @ 9:54 pm
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 Round Rev and his rabble regularly showed up at The Legislative Building in Raleigh over the last year demanding that education spending and teacher pay be elevated to at least match "the national average."
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 10:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Boy, how things change. One of the missions of the NAACP's founders was to protect the integrity of elections and people's right to vote.
Published: Saturday, January 4th, 2014 @ 1:47 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Three families will be celebrating Thanksgiving together this year, grateful that two young boys have a new chance at a healthy life. Tuguldur Ganzorig, 1, and Munkhbayar Munkhbat, 2, of Mongolia, along with their mothers and an interpreter, have spent the past few weeks living with a host family...
Published: Saturday, November 30th, 2013 @ 3:54 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Bill Barber, his rabble, and their allies in the media and North Carolina Democrat Party have been hitting us with sob stories about the short-changing of higher education in North Carolina that apparently started when that bad man from Charlotte moved into the executive mansion on Blount Street.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 10:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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