Governor Pat McCrory has designated Charlton L. Allen of Iredell County as the next Chairman of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. Allen will succeed current Industrial Commission Chairman Andrew T. Heath, who will become State Budget Director effective February 1st.
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2016 @ 9:47 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Industrial Commission Chairman Andrew T. Heath announced today the appointment of five deputy commissioners.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 10:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory signed an executive order today to crack down on employee misclassification practices in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:05 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Everybody seems to have some memory of the term "Military Industrial Complex" as if it were some sinister and evil concept.
Published: Tuesday, August 25th, 2015 @ 8:29 am
By: Bobby Tony
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On August 7, 2015, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of an industrial accident at a business on Frederick Road in Chocowinity, NC. Chocowinity Volunteer Fire Department and Chocowinity EMS and began life saving measures.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: Chris Downey
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Seven students at Beaufort County Community College have earned the Core Curriculum Credential from the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) as part of a new program made possible by a grant from the Duke Energy Community Foundation.
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 4:38 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory has nominated Christopher Loutit for appointment to the North Carolina Industrial Commission, pending approval by the North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 3:07 am
By: Chris Downey
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Over the past few decades, much of American higher education has become ideologically left wing. You might have thought, however, that business schools could resist the trend. You'd be mistaken.
Published: Monday, March 9th, 2015 @ 5:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Historians and history majors among our campus community certainly remember the significance of Sunday's date - December 7. The date was designated by Congress in 1994 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. While we take time to remember our veterans and fallen soldiers on other days...
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 4:09 pm
By: Barbara Tansey
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We seem to be like little kids these days obsessing over entertainment more than understanding. This article states is well from all sides with plenty of links to prove their point
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 12:18 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that initial payments will be mailed to the victims of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina. The payments were made possible when Governor McCrory signed the budget bill that included funding championed by former Representative Larry Womble and other legislators.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 8:49 pm
By: Chris Downey
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These candidates have taken a position to stop the jproposed Southwest County Jail in the Chocowinity Industrial Park.
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 4:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Several years ago the county was refused USDA financing for a justice center at the Minute Man site because the project's sponsors could not demonstrate sufficient community support for the proposal.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 7:29 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Last week I sent you an estimate of the operation expense advantage that could be achieved by a remodeling the Washington courthouse as opposed to building in Chocowinity.
Published: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 @ 10:32 am
By: Warren Smith
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These are estimated daily expense numbers for the new 176 bed jail as based on an average 140 inmate population, i.e., 110 local inmates plus 30 transfers from state prison system (Al Klemm,: My Turn WDN, March 15, 2014).
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: Warren Smith
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The Southwest County Jail, after the final piece of the puzzle fell into place when Chocowinity's government overruled their advisory board on permitting, was a go.
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 5:36 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County's Board of County Commissioners voted by the slimmest of margins, by a vote of 4 to 3,
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Several weeks ago Duke Energy presented a report about the potential use of the Chocowinity Industrial Park, and the fact that what we have there is a fabulous piece of business real estate that could attract many hundreds of new jobs.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
By: Keith D Kidwell
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What can I say??? It was entertaining / it was enlightening / it was comical / it was sad . . . I only have a page and I could write a book on the Beaufort County Council Meeting last night whose main topic was a possible new Law Enforcement Center.
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:32 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Earlier last year you began acting on a proposal to fund a new jail at the Washington Industrial Park.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 5:28 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Here is my line of thinking.
Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 11:18 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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