It is clearly time to increase the minimum wage. How can anyone be expected to live on the paltry minimum currently in force.. They really can't.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:49 am
By: Jim Bispo
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State House speaker and Senate candidate Thom Tillis likes to talk about what the General Assembly — under his leadership — has done to improve the business climate in the Tar Heel State.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Summer’s longer days and warmer temperatures offer more opportunities to eat fresh fruits and vegetables but not everyone knows how or where to get healthy foods.
Published: Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 @ 2:16 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The School Nutrition Association (SNA) recently held its National School Breakfast Week. The 2013 theme, "Be a Star with School Breakfast" helped students understand how eating a healthy breakfast at school helps them shine like their favorite stars.
Published: Thursday, May 9th, 2013 @ 7:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There are a lot of folks (me among them) who believe that when your negotiation includes Richard Trumka across the table and Chuckie S. moderating, you don't have much of a chance of coming out anywhere near even.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 6:14 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Visit fast-food restaurants in March, and you'll notice fish sandwiches atop the menus and order screens. It's the Lenten season, a time when many believers, particularly Catholics, abstain from eating meat on Fridays...
Published: Friday, March 15th, 2013 @ 10:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Many who heard Becky Vinson speak on campus Wednesday already knew the outlines of her inspiring life story. From newspaper stories and an ESPN video, they knew she came to East Carolina University as a single mother struggling to pay tuition and rent while raising two kids.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 5:22 pm
By: ECU News Services
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As childhood obesity rates continue to rise, the debate over the role of public schools in promoting healthy lifestyles has intensified. Public health advocates contend that schools can curb obesity by banning the sale of junk food and soda.
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2012 @ 2:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Isn't it curious that the media (with the exception of ABC and FoxNews) refuses to cover a hate crime shooting of a victim at a conservative pro-life organization in Washington, DC if the perpetrator is a leftwing zealot?
Published: Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 @ 9:06 am
By: Alicia Colon
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In a word, no. And while free speech is essential to forge a nation that ever strives to protect the liberty and justice that was so hard won, free speech, for the individual, does not come without the tethered responsibility of good citizenship.
Published: Thursday, August 2nd, 2012 @ 2:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It is amazing how many things politicians and bureaucrats can think up for other people to do. We are repeatedly directed to implement all manner of great sounding things.
Published: Sunday, May 20th, 2012 @ 6:43 am
By: Jim Bispo
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The Beaufort County Economic Development Commission will have a group of talking points, which we have listed here below.
Published: Monday, March 19th, 2012 @ 2:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Feb. 19, 2012 the lead article in the WDN tells us that according to the intrepid chairman of NC-20 (a coalition of 20 eastern North Carolina counties) "We killed sea level rise inflation".
Published: Sunday, February 26th, 2012 @ 7:59 am
By: Jim Bispo
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America, as a whole, has fallen further and further into a self-destructive pattern. There are several things that can be seen everyday throughout the country, one major issue is that of being overweight.
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 @ 2:55 pm
By: Leslie Schneider
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Riverside restaurant opens its doors to crowds of patient patrons
Published: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 @ 10:02 pm
By: BCN
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North Carolina chain to open location in area
Published: Thursday, January 14th, 2010 @ 9:26 pm
By: BCN
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(252) 555-6789 :: 1429 Carolina Ave, Washington, NC 27889
Published: Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 @ 4:03 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Regionally renowned traditional country and bluegrass band Molasses Creek keep community in the forefront out on Ocracoke Island.
Published: Thursday, October 29th, 2009 @ 2:24 pm
By: Bryan Oesterreich
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