A vile strain of racial tension has infected our national discourse
Published: Sunday, September 10th, 2017 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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She was one of the founding members of the group Sister Sledge, which was another Philadelphia group founded in 1971. Joni and her sisters came from a musical family. Her father was a tap dancer and he mother was an actress. Her grandmother was an opera singer.
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2017 @ 5:24 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Monkeys are not humans and humans are not monkeys but they could have been.
Published: Tuesday, September 20th, 2016 @ 2:54 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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My husband and I received an invitation to a party in St. Louis to celebrate the marriage of a friend from his Vietnam days. Since I'm retired and no longer have to worry about using up precious vacation days, we decided we'd make a road trip of it.
Published: Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 @ 3:04 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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It's a basic concept: Limit comparisons to items that can be compared reasonably. But too much of today's political discourse relies instead on apples-to-oranges comparisons, those comparisons that are unreasonable or perhaps impossible.
Published: Friday, September 2nd, 2016 @ 6:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 10th anniversary of East Carolina University's Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series kicks off in September with speakers of internationally renowned and wide public interest.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 12:40 am
By: ECU News Services
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If you reach your money spending objective, there will be a big payoff waiting for you.
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2016 @ 5:31 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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If you are cursed with that dreaded of all mental conditions of having an overactive mind that requires constant input, I have a suggestion for you.
Published: Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 @ 1:41 am
By: Bobby Tony
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He was just a poor Wilmington, North Carolina boy, but he and the devil went to Georgia. Born on October 28, 1936 he turns 78 today.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:44 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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As I wind down the series, I just had to present a couple of the Disco songs of the era. I have never been a dancer past the jitterbug era and never could learn the later other dances of the 60-70's including the John Travolta moves.
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 10:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Economist and syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell - a North Carolina native, by the way - is fond of denying that there are permanent solutions to problems. Instead, he insists, "there are only tradeoffs."
Published: Friday, April 3rd, 2015 @ 4:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today's pop music is predicated upon the lowest common denominator of the human experiment. There is little that is uplifting, no building upon the art of the past, just make money, and lots of it, paid by the dimmest bulbs of all time.
Published: Sunday, March 1st, 2015 @ 4:12 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The plight of the low-wage fast-food worker has been a focus of some political activism lately. The ostensible goal is drumming up support for significantly raising the minimum wage. Sympathy for workers should not, however, lead one into supporting causes that merely seem to address the problem whi
Published: Friday, December 12th, 2014 @ 10:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Health Discoveries," a production of ECU-TV, will launch at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 31. The "Health Discoveries" series, hosted by Dr. Samuel F. Sears, will highlight specific successes of East Carolina University faculty in solving important health problems via research, teaching and service.
Published: Saturday, September 6th, 2014 @ 9:24 am
By: ECU News Services
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I didn't need to listen to an 18-hour lecture series on the history of China to be reminded of the drawbacks of government monopolies, but it never hurts an argument to discover a new example of its thesis.
Published: Sunday, August 25th, 2013 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina could save more than $3 billion in Medicaid prescription costs over the coming decade by negotiating discounts through pharmacy networks...
Published: Monday, June 24th, 2013 @ 5:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I'm glad to see news reporters and policy analysts devoting increasing attention to a subject Carolina Journal readers will find familiar: the role that public policy plays in discouraging work.
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2013 @ 4:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For decades, rising tuition rates have been almost as reliable a feature of American life as death and taxes. A substantial part of those increases has been used to fund large amounts of tuition "discounts," a combination of merit- and need-based...
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 3:47 pm
By: Duke Cheston
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In a past column I described the political debate about North Carolina's economy as a disagreement among three schools of thought about how best to stimulate growth.
Published: Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Robert Belcher has resigned his position as Chairman of the Beaufort County Board of Education but will remain on the board as the representative from his district.
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2011 @ 1:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This 60-hour course will prepare students to take the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Captain’s Exam. Boatmanship, rules of the road, chair reading and mapping are just a few of the items covered in this cour
Published: Monday, August 30th, 2010 @ 5:22 pm
By: Judy Jennette
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