During the fall campaign in North Carolina, the presidential and gubernatorial races captured most of the attention
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 11:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Alvin Thomas Edwards age 88, a resident of Blounts Creek, NC died Friday November 18, 2016 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital of Washington
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 10:20 am
By: Announcements
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There is a saying a person's true character is revealed by what he does when no one is watching. That may be true but I have a slightly different viewpoint on the subject.
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 @ 5:23 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Republican state auditor candidate and former FBI special agent Chuck Stuber says he was puzzled that the agency's investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's private email server
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2016 @ 4:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The matchup in the Democratic primary for North Carolina Attorney General pits an insider against an outsider.
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2016 @ 10:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Higher education has already become an important issue in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary race. It should receive considerable attention in the first primary date, scheduled for October 13 on CNN.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, the North Carolina Republican Party slammed State Senator Josh Stein as he announced a campaign to succeed his former boss and Democrat candidate for governor, Roy Cooper.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 4:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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One issue that gets North Carolinian blood boiling is the former Center for Work, Poverty, and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's law school. To conservatives it is a symbol of the left's abuse of its dominance of academia, in which a Democratic politician...
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 5:31 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Texas, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New York, and North Carolina are in an exclusive club. Can you guess its membership policy?
Published: Saturday, July 25th, 2015 @ 9:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Feb. 27, the UNC Board of Governors voted to close the Center on Poverty, Work, and Opportunity at its Chapel Hill campus. Many on the left and faculty within the UNC system argued the board's decision was political and an attack on academic freedom.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 1:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The beginning of 2015 has been consequential for the University of North Carolina system
Published: Thursday, April 9th, 2015 @ 5:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The beginning of 2015 has been consequential for the University of North Carolina system. In January, the Board of Governors forced president Thomas Ross to resign from his position (he'll leave in early 2016), and in February the board garnered national attention after voting to close three centers
Published: Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 @ 5:52 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Great outrage has erupted from inside the University of North Carolina system due to the closure of three academic centers by the system's Board of Governors. The local media has published story after story by UNC academics excoriating the Governors for everything from a denial of free speech to...
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 3:15 am
By: John William Pope Center
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That's right, folks. The drive-by media, already trying to paint liberal gasbag and self-anointed "poverty" expert Gene Nichol as some Christ-like martyr, let this little gem slip,
Published: Wednesday, March 4th, 2015 @ 11:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Last week, a working group from the UNC system's Board of Governors drew national attention and student and faculty protest after it announced plans to discontinue three of the system's 237 centers and increase oversight of thirteen others.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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If the recent review of campus-based centers by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors was all an elaborate ruse to silence a critic of state Republicans, it would probably qualify as the most improbable, elaborate, and ineffective conspiracy in North Carolina history.
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 11:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's particularly disgusting to see our state's drive-by media try to compare the UNC Board of Governors' decision to shut down a scam on the Chapel Hill campus to McCarthyism or the state's one-time speaker ban.
Published: Tuesday, February 24th, 2015 @ 12:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Governors make lots of decisions. They propose budgets. They hire Cabinet secretaries and other key state officials. They appoint members to governing boards and licensing agencies. They sign or veto bills. They offer or withhold clemency to criminals.
Published: Sunday, February 22nd, 2015 @ 3:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a draft report released this week, the working group of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has completed its review of the 240 research centers scattered among the system campuses. It recommends further review of only 13 and closure of just three.
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mrs. Helen Olivia Edwards Whitley, age 93, a former resident of Lizzard Slip Road, Washington, died Monday, January 26, 2015 at River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Washington.
Published: Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
By: Announcements
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Are you frustrated with the current state of the NCGOP? Start organizing your like-minded friends to take over — or at least build a sizeable contingent within — your precinct and your county party organization.
Published: Saturday, December 27th, 2014 @ 9:56 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Whether your team won or lost a good friend put this week's elections in proper perspective.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:44 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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As the 2014 election cycle draws to a close, few states have drawn so much national attention as North Carolina, thanks to the tight Hagan-Tillis race, the dramatic turn in state government from blue to red, and our status as a presidential swing state in 2008 and 2012.
Published: Friday, October 31st, 2014 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Published: Monday, October 27th, 2014 @ 1:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Senator Kay Hagan's husband and son created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using $250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company to install solar panels at a building he owns.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We've got a political debate that's sure to draw a lot of media attention here in town Monday night.
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 5:33 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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With the opening of each dental community service learning center, East Carolina University is "changing the trajectory of oral health care in North Carolina."
Published: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014 @ 6:07 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It's always charming when two geriatric liberals attend the same event and come away with two very different accounts.
Published: Sunday, April 27th, 2014 @ 5:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A public records request filed by the Civitas Institute confirms that the UNC Poverty Center continues to use publicly funded resources for blatantly political activities in ways that are inappropriate, violate UNC policies, and possibly illegal.
Published: Thursday, March 6th, 2014 @ 11:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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We get a lot of lip service from lefties about the importance of respecting minorities and the minority opinion.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 11:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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As the old saying goes, "What's good for the goose is good for the gander." But some North Carolina professors have decided that they are neither goose nor gander.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2013 @ 6:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Bill Barber, his rabble, and their allies in the media and North Carolina Democrat Party have been hitting us with sob stories about the short-changing of higher education in North Carolina that apparently started when that bad man from Charlotte moved into the executive mansion on Blount Street.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 10:21 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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