Governor Pat McCrory signed into law today a bill authorizing the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to establish a police department, a tribal alcohol law enforcement division, a natural resources law enforcement agency, and a probation and parole agency through the Cherokee Marshal's Office.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 8:10 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Jean Shepherd's humorist view a of one family's Christmas skewed toward the bizarre in a very cold northern Indiana - very industrial, very middleclass, and of course, very funny.
Published: Saturday, May 16th, 2015 @ 2:06 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Gov. Pat McCrory appeared on WFNC radio in Fayetteville Thursday morning and reiterated his effort to prevent North Carolina from being swept into the political maelstrom that engulfed Indiana and Arkansas over religious freedom and gay rights.
Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The lefties tried to suggest that North Carolina's approval of an amendment to its state constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman was going to be an economic development nightmare.
Published: Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 @ 12:23 pm
By: Announcements
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It gets downplayed in the drive by media, but the public school are required to report annually to the legislature on the crime situation within the state's public schools each year.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 10:03 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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This will likely NOT run on CNN or other media. Since its first subject is the Bush Administration ---Fox News won’t divulge it either . . .
Published: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 4:53 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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A former Indian Trail town planner testified under oath in September that in the early 2000s, town leaders ordered him to commit illegal acts in approving developers’ plans.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 12:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the Catawba Indian Nation awaits a ruling from the U.S. Department of the Interior on acquiring land in Cleveland County to build a $340 million resort/casino, it is battling in South Carolina courts to create a similar gambling property on its border reservation in Rock Hill.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 12:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The South Carolina-based Catawba Nation would not be the first Indian tribe to operate a casino in a state where it has no reservation if it is able to open an entertainment resort in Cleveland County.
Published: Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 @ 4:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When Indian Trail Councilman David Waddell chose to submit his resignation from the council in Klingon - the fictional language of the aliens from the "Star Trek" franchise - it was just one of many unusual things going on in the bedroom community near Charlotte.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2014 @ 1:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Catawba Indian Nation's plan to build a $340 million casino/resort in Cleveland County would end the Eastern Band of Cherokees' gaming monopoly in North Carolina. First, the proposal must receive unprecedented federal approval in a case complicated by murky laws, allegations that campaign contri
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With the passage of HB 589 VIVA/Election Reform, the North Carolina legislature has produced the first comprehensive updating of our election laws in several decades.
Published: Monday, August 19th, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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We talk a lot today about how the Constitution no longer means what it used to and it no longer protects individual freedom and liberty as it used to.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2013 @ 9:19 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Who could possibly be against protecting women against violence? The renewal of the disingenuously-named Violence Against Women Act sailed through the Senate with 78 of 100 votes and 238 votes out of 435 (87 GOP votes) in the House.
Published: Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ 8:39 am
By: Brant Clifton
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His administration is known for bringing more control to the colony. Sixty-one laws were passed, including provisions punishing libel against public officials and participants in riots.
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2012 @ 9:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Robeson County is about as yellow-dog Democrat as you can get. In 1972, while George McGovern was getting destroyed nationwide by Richard Nixon - he was winning comfortably in Robeson County.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 8:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Young adults largely supported Barack Obama's message of hope and change during his 2008 presidential campaign. Now, four years later, many young people are struggling with the impact of the nation's economic changes.
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Robert “Joe” Lawson, age 73, died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, in New Haven, Indiana. He is survived by his wife Linda, daughter Kelley and her husband Musa, grandson Zain, brother David Lawson and wife Doris, and nieces and nephews.
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 @ 11:08 pm
By: Announcements
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Maurice Lan Ange, 85, was born in Jamesville, N.C., on Feb. 3, 1926, to his parents, Adren and Emma Mizell Ange. He passed away Sept. 10, 2011, at Sentara Princess Anne Hospital after a brief illness.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 @ 6:36 pm
By: Announcements
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Though fears of big-government oppression abound, it is now easier than ever for American citizens to purchase and carry firearms.
Published: Thursday, August 26th, 2010 @ 6:33 pm
By: BCN
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