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Jim Martin was the most underappreciated governor in our state’s modern history.
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2024 @ 6:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Beaufort County Community College recognized its top-performing students on April 27.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:28 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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You have to give legislators credit for identifying an issue that has needed addressing for decades. They introduced a bill that would eliminate the power of the sitting governor to name the members of the State Board of Education.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 7:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Beaufort County Community College recognized its top-performing students on March 6 for high achievements and overcoming obstacles.
Published: Thursday, March 9th, 2023 @ 6:30 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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Beaufort County Community College recognized its top-performing students on April 26 at the Academic Awards Ceremony.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 12:13 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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Beaufort County Community College student Katie Council was selected as the winner of the Governor Robert Scott Leadership Award. The North Carolina Community College System chooses one student per year for the award that recognizes student leadership among all 58 community colleges in the system.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 6:32 pm
By: Attila Nemecz
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In a few days members of the North Carolina House and Senate will respectively name new members to the UNC Board of Governors (BOG).
Published: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 @ 10:19 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Bill Friday was right. Friday, the founding president of the 16 campus University of North Carolina System, fought with then-Governor Bob Scott in 1971 over the creation of the new system
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 11:39 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Founding UNC President Bill Friday was fond of boasting that our universities were the "crown jewels" of our state. Friday welcomed the restructuring of all public universities into a consolidated system in the 1970s, but he disagreed with the 32-member Board of Governors
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2017 @ 3:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Yogi Berra once said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 10:12 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In Governor McCrory's Recommended Budget for the 2015-17 biennium, he suggested the creation of a cabinet-level department, the Department of Information Technology (IT). Whenever the government suggests creating a new department or agency, it must weigh the cost of creating the department...
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2015 @ 5:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Steve Logan, former East Carolina University head football coach, recently remarked that things don't usually turn out well for head coaches. The same is often true for anyone who serves "at the pleasure" of someone or some group. UNC President Tom Ross is the latest example.
Published: Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @ 2:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In researching my upcoming biography of former North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin, I've been conducting personal interviews, rooting through boxes of archival material, and collecting press coverage of Martin's 26-year political career as a county commissioner, congressman, and governor.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 @ 4:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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