North Carolina lawmakers pushed back against Common Core education standards by passing legislation to require the teaching of cursive handwriting in elementary schools
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2016 @ 11:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Compromise Is What Washington D.C. Work...Or Does it?
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2016 @ 10:05 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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The smartest man who ever lived in the entire history of humankind on the face of the earth is about to publish an open email to every email address in the entire world.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 1:32 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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They say that some of the best exercise you can get is riding a bicycle. It helps to burn calories as well as provide cardio vascular conditioning
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2015 @ 10:40 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Those who want to place government-mandated limits on carbon dioxide (often erroneously and sometimes maliciously referred to as just "carbon") emissions claim that their goal is to keep the planet from overheating — that is, to prevent global warming.
Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Kay Hagan thinks businesses should be mandated to provide PAID leave to employees to deal with family concerns like childbirth or sick children.
Published: Monday, August 4th, 2014 @ 8:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last fall when the American Heart Association issued new guidelines to help doctors teach their patients about their risks of developing cardiovascular disease – accompanied by a bulky computer spreadsheet calculator – one ECU physician thought he had a better idea.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 2:28 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The story began in the early 1990s, when Baker lived in Houston, Texas, with his family. He had recently sold his computer company and was looking for a new pursuit to spice up retirement.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 1:13 pm
By: John William Pope Foundation
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An education in law is meant to teach the law and legal reasoning. To learn basic skills is the aim of primary and secondary schooling. Yet here at Leiden Law (part of Leiden University, the Netherlands' oldest and most prestigious university), we are increasingly sacrificing the law to teach...
Published: Friday, September 6th, 2013 @ 4:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In late May, my husband and I welcomed our first child, Edward James Robinson. We're calling him Ned. After the first few weeks of sleepless nights and a very steep learning curve, the hospital bills came. They're only the first of many expenses involved in raising a child - and they're chump...
Published: Monday, September 2nd, 2013 @ 12:42 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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If reforming North Carolina's tax code were easy, one of the many tax-reform efforts of the past 20 years would have succeeded. Didn't happen.
Published: Thursday, June 6th, 2013 @ 10:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate leaders used a Tuesday press conference to announce their long-awaited tax proposal, a proposal that would lower personal and corporate income tax...
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Having a student qualify for state is starting to become a habit for the Washington High School Math Team.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 2:26 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is truly comforting to know that the Anointed One is turning to the creation of jobs - or do you suppose that is but more rhetoric intended to give him something that sounds good to talk about as he pursues his reelection bid (which has clearly already started)??
Published: Sunday, June 19th, 2011 @ 2:24 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Thanks to the federal government, every property in Beaufort County is presently eligible for 100-percent financing through the USDA Rural Housing Program.
Published: Sunday, September 5th, 2010 @ 12:51 pm
By: BCN
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