Governor Roy Cooper today urged legislative Republicans to provide funding for smaller class sizes to phase in the currently unfunded mandate when they convene in Raleigh next week
Published: Monday, January 8th, 2018 @ 1:25 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Utility contractor killed by falling tree during storm cleanup in Alexander County
Published: Thursday, October 26th, 2017 @ 8:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Enrollment Changes Have Consequences
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2016 @ 3:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A reporter for the Western Carolinian of Salisbury in 1825 wrote, "The mining interest of the state is now only second to the farming interest."
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2016 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced that the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry passed his amendment to the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 that would give North Carolina counties the final say as to whether their land is designated as wilderness study areas
Published: Saturday, September 17th, 2016 @ 7:55 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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Voters in Jackson County went to the polls this week and voted pretty decisively — with 64 percent saying yes — to a local-option sales tax referendum
Published: Saturday, June 11th, 2016 @ 8:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today...
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 8:16 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina will receive more than $23 million to expand Wi-Fi access to K-12 classrooms throughout the state, bringing the total funding for this initiative to nearly $40 million.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 7:05 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory briefed citizens from the State Emergency Operations Center Wednesday morning on the response to last night's snowfall across the state.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 10:26 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today...
Published: Friday, February 13th, 2015 @ 7:27 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Niche.com, Inc. is a Pittsburgh, PA-based company that evaluates and ranks K-12 schools, colleges, cities, and neighborhoods. They recently released their 2015 ranking of public schools and school districts in each state, as well as a national ranking of private and public schools and districts.
Published: Thursday, January 29th, 2015 @ 8:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Yes, state board member, Maja Kricker, really did rule at the State Board of Elections (SBOE) meeting today. Her opinion was the only opinion that counted when it came to the five member SBOE voting on one-stop variance requests made by county board of elections.
Published: Friday, August 1st, 2014 @ 3:16 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 @ 2:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their General Meeting on Monday, March 10, 2014
Published: Monday, March 10th, 2014 @ 4:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina's housing market remained relatively stable in the post-recession years of 2010-12 according to the American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 11:47 am
By: David Winstead
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Maurice Edward Jefferson, Jr., died August 12, 2013, in Atlanta. Georgia. He was the father of two children.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 8:38 am
By: Announcements
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The hottest trend these days among mainstream media-types is to publish names and addresses of people who have concealed-carry permits. WRAL and a newspaper in NY tried it -- and got burned.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2013 @ 11:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Executive Mansion was completed in 1891 and remains one of the state's finest examples of the Queen Anne style of Victorian architecture.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 1:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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From the mountains to the coast, floods of endorsements for John Tedesco continue to call on voters to pick the only proven conservative in the race who has the vision and tenacity to improve our schools.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 3:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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History is full of cases in which people subverted their own just causes by acting impulsively rather than carefully considering the costs and benefits.
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 12:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Dan Forest for Lt. Governor campaign today released the following endorsements for his campaign. This list is a partial listing of endorsements for Dan's campaign, as more will be released this week.
Published: Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 @ 11:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"The mining interest of the state is now only second to the farming interest." So wrote a reporter from the Western Carolinian of Salisbury in 1825. There was enough demand by 1830 for a Charlotte-based Miners' and Farmers' Journal to begin publication.
Published: Saturday, April 7th, 2012 @ 10:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dan Forest, Republican candidate for the office of North Carolina Lt. Governor, today received the iCaucus endorsement.
Published: Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 @ 11:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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"If you would understand anything," wrote Aristotle, "observe its beginning and its development." Without a solid grounding in the history of our state, North Carolinians cannot hope to chart the right course for the future.
Published: Friday, March 23rd, 2012 @ 10:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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