877,255 N.C. Households Rely on the Affordable Connectivity Program to Get Internet Service and Stay Connected
Published: Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 @ 6:31 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Partnership with Alaska and Arizona universities brings rehabilitation services to remote communities
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 10:56 am
By: ECU News Services
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Wake Forest filed a series of state Supreme Court briefs Friday defending its decision to reject a proposed charter school in 2020.
Published: Saturday, February 3rd, 2024 @ 7:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Cooper Leads Bipartisan Letter Urging Congress to Continue Program that Helps North Carolinians Afford High-Speed Internet
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2024 @ 8:27 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper joined President Joe Biden in Raleigh today to announce $82 million in new investments from the American Rescue Plan’s Capital Projects Fund that will connect at least 16,000 North Carolina homes and businesses to high-speed internet
Published: Friday, January 19th, 2024 @ 7:37 am
By: Governor's Office
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Cutting-edge high-speed internet is on its way to some of North Carolina’s rural counties, Republican Senator Thom Tillis announced last month.
Published: Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 @ 9:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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CANCUN, Mexico — The Executive Committee of the North American Intergovernmental Committee on Cooperation for Protected Areas (NAPA) signed an updated Memorandum of Understanding this week outlining a framework for continued cooperation and coordination
Published: Tuesday, November 28th, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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WASHINGTON, NC— Beaufort County Community College cut the ribbon on its new building to house its boat manufacturing program on October 26.
Published: Saturday, November 11th, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Governor Cooper Urges Congress to Continue Program that Helps NC Families Afford High-Speed InternetRALEIGH: Congress must act to reauthorize the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) so that people can continue to afford to connect to high speed internet, Governor Roy Cooper urged North Carolina’s Congressional delegation.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 9:49 am
By: Governor's Office
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Rural Health, in partnership with East Carolina University and North Carolina State University, has been awarded a highly competitive Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society award
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 10:53 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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RALEIGH: Governor Roy Cooper today announced the state’s first Completing Access to Broadband (CAB) program awards totaling $22 million that will connect 6,012 households and 164 businesses in 14 counties to high-speed internet.
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 6:07 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A new study has found that 100% of men would immediately leave their desk jobs if a daring explorer showed up at their place of work and said, "My lad, I am in need of bold adventurers to join me on my tall wooden ship as I attempt to traverse the entire continent of Antarctica."
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2023 @ 8:52 am
By: Babylon Bee
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USDA funding will benefit 2,674 people, 84 businesses, 117 farms and four educational facilities
Published: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 @ 5:15 pm
By: Governor's Office
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The N.C. Home Builders Association supports a charter school operator's legal fight against the town of Wake Forst. The dispute sits now with the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2023 @ 7:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Coalition of Charter Schools urges the N.C. Supreme Court to overturn a split 2022 state Appeals Court decision in a charter school dispute.
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 @ 5:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: CommScope [NASDAQ: COMM], a global telecommunications leader, plans to add 250 new jobs with a $60.3 million investment to expand its fiber-optic cable manufacturing operations in Catawba County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 @ 4:11 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Grants will bring broadband to 25,000 N.C. households in 33 counties
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 7:36 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Young people won’t remember this, but there was a day not that long ago when our modems went from being able to handle 14.4 Kbps (thousands of bits per second) of data to 28.8 Kbps.
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2023 @ 8:22 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk said during an interview Tuesday night that the government needs to have a plan to physically shut down the power grid in areas that house “heavy duty” artificial intelligence servers in case mankind ever lost control of the AI.
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 2:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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"This is proof positive that North Carolina politicians and bureaucrats are prepared to trample on the rights of private property owners in order to benefit favored business interests,” said Jon Guze, Senior Fellow for Legal Studies at the John Locke Foundation.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case involving Wake Forest's decision in 2020 to block construction of a new charter school in town.
Published: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 @ 8:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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RALEIGH: North Carolina will get $500,000 to help more low-income households afford monthly high-speed internet service, Governor Roy Cooper announced.
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2023 @ 12:47 am
By: Governor's Office
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The lead of the Daily Mail said it all: “Scientists claim that there are fewer wild animals in neighborhoods where mostly people of color live — and their absence is affecting residents’ mental health.”
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 4:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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When former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, the identical twin of Arizona Democrat senator Mark Kelly, tried to get SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to let Ukraine use SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service for use by the country’s military, Musk rebuffed the attempt.
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 3:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO) will be voting Feb. 15 on a proposed study which will utilize managed lanes on Interstate 77.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 12:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Grant for improving digital equity to impact 29 regional counties
Published: Friday, February 17th, 2023 @ 1:02 am
By: ECU News Services
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Not only did the glut of coronavirus-tied bailouts likely result in billions of dollars of fraud, but it happened because government agencies in many cases did not take even basic steps to prevent it, and in other cases have declined to try to claw back improper payments
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 9:47 pm
By: Daily Wire
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ECU, ECU Health research focuses on improving rural health
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 @ 10:39 pm
By: ECU News Services
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With rising interest rates, experts expect the U.K. to remain in a recession into 2024
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 @ 10:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One Illinois county has faced connectivity issues with its computer servers due to an alleged cyber-attack.
Published: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 @ 12:56 am
By: Daily Wire
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Company’s After School Access Project helps bridge the “Homework Gap"
Published: Monday, October 31st, 2022 @ 9:12 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Beaufort County Community College awarded the contract for construction of a new building to house its boat manufacturing program to A.R. Chesson Construction.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 8:57 am
By: Attila Nemecz
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Cummins-Meritor, a business unit within Cummins’ components segment, will add 40 new jobs in Henderson County, Governor Roy Cooper announced today.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2022 @ 10:03 pm
By: Governor's Office
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