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There are many people who overlook the brilliance of the US Constitution. They argue that it is outdated and unfit to adequately govern such a modern nation as ours in the 21st century.
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The notoriously frugal Donaldson family cleverly posed as illegal immigrants, scoring a free week at a luxury hotel in downtown New York City.
Published: Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 @ 10:53 am
By: Babylon Bee
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There is no animal control in the city limits of Washington. This must change.
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2023 @ 5:11 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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Highlights the Work of NCCash.com, Gives Lesson on Government to Students
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The issue of spending many millions of taxpayer dollars to build a new Beaufort County jail is again raising its head.
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 11:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As a Fiscal Conservative, I have always made it my goal, as a county commissioner, to hold spending down to keep our taxes low.
Published: Saturday, October 8th, 2022 @ 7:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Inflation is more than just an expensive trip to the grocery store or gas pump
Published: Sunday, July 24th, 2022 @ 7:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Beaufort County's Commissioners wrapped up the people's budget after a feigned attempt at some deliberations; none, however, were intended to be constructive by the majority.
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2022 @ 7:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Past time govt's have stolen retirement accounts
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2022 @ 6:43 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, might be America’s most interesting personality, and is surely one of its wisest and noblest characters.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:42 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Beaufort County Commissioners Meet in a Special Called Meeting to Decide the Tax Rate for 2020 /2021On Monday June, 8, 2020, Beaufort County's Commissioners met to finish the 2020 /2021 budget; make no cuts with a hastily constructed economic recession raging, and retained the .635 per 100 dollars evaluation as the ad valorem tax rate for Beaufort County tax payers.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 12:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Voter Identification Assurances & Election Reforms
Published: Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 @ 10:25 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Thursday, March 4th, 2021 @ 4:17 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The year 2020 is the year of election interference and election tampering. No other presidential election (aside from the election of 1960 between Nixon and John F. Kennedy) has been fraught with such intentional, deliberate, anti-American, unconstitutional, and treasonous activities.
Published: Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 @ 7:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The majority leader in North Carolina’s state Senate offered his colleagues good advice for this year’s legislative session.
Published: Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 @ 11:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I do get it. Some folks, within today's America, seem to need a tribal gathering point, and for the consumer intellect, scoring well while shopping is a tempting scorecard to behold, it tends to register in the pathos of the chronic consumer long beyond 'the shopping experience'.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2019 @ 10:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It was a tempest in a teapot-or a tempest over a tweet. A J.P. Morgan #MondayMotivation tweet took the form of an imaginary conversation between a customer and their bank account and was deemed offensive.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 9:28 am
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Commissioner Jerry Langley formally initiated the conversation among the Beaufort County Commissioners that a new jail or "Public Safety Complex" (vernacular for Progressives) should be considered and built.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 3:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Friday is never a dull day when I am working. It is easier to get up in the morning, no matter the conditions . . .for it is Friday!
Published: Monday, March 11th, 2019 @ 4:26 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Voters tend to credit the governor for a state's strong economy and fiscal health
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 @ 9:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While reminding us that the leader of the free world maintains some semblance of life outside the arena, these presidential pets rarely served overtly political purposes
Published: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation allowing counties to impose an additional quarter-cent sales tax to raise revenue within their jurisdictions
Published: Saturday, March 31st, 2018 @ 7:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It may do us well to review what our Founding Fathers conceived as a just and suitable federal tax plan
Published: Friday, February 9th, 2018 @ 2:32 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Lylas' snowman has been around so long, he should have had a name. It was -6 degrees F this morning at the early service.
Published: Wednesday, January 10th, 2018 @ 9:17 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Earlier this year, the commission delivered a report to the General Assembly urging, among other reforms, legislation raising the default age teenagers charged with nonviolent offenses would be tried in adult courts from 16 to 18 years old
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2017 @ 7:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lost beneath headlines highlighting the rancorous repeal of House Bill 2, N.C. lawmakers took another vote on the same day that could produce major long-term positive benefits for state government finances
Published: Thursday, April 6th, 2017 @ 9:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The evidence is undeniable: North Carolina has outperformed regional and national averages in most standard measures of economic growth, including job creation, gross domestic product, and personal income, since conservatives took control of state government
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 2:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recently I attended a meeting of a committee of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors that has a mission of "setting goals for economic impact." Higher education's role in the economy cannot be ignored; the extent of that role is, however, highly debatable
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 @ 3:03 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The words "ambitious state budget" must test well in polls and focus groups
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2016 @ 2:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The United States has grown far too large to still be considered a "republican form of government" as guaranteed under Article IV. The question is this: How do we get this form of self-government back?
Published: Sunday, August 14th, 2016 @ 11:05 am
By: Diane Rufino
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