Major League Baseball and the players’ union are at a standoff over proposed pay for the 2020 season with days to go until their informal deadline of June 1.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2020 @ 8:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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Robert Euker Hawkins, 85, of Washington, North Carolina passed away peacefully on Thursday, November 28, 2019 at The Service League of Greenville Inpatient Hospice House.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 9:48 am
By: Announcements
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) applauded the unanimous passage of bipartisan legislation he co-sponsored that would criminalize lynching, attempts to lynch, and conspiracy to lynch for the first time in American history.
Published: Saturday, February 16th, 2019 @ 12:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The National Football League is having a very difficult time finding acts to play the halftime show for the league's annual Super Bowl - and musicians are beginning to call the prime time performance slot the "least-wanted gig" in music.
Published: Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 @ 10:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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An all-male a cappella group at a prestigious university will no longer sing one well-known Disney song because some audience members - and one sophomore who wrote an article about it for the student newspaper - found it to be "uncomfortable."
Published: Friday, December 7th, 2018 @ 3:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A recent study by the League of Women Voters reported "77 percent of private schools receiving vouchers are using curricula that do not comply with state standards, leaving many students unprepared for college-level coursework or careers in certain fields."
Published: Saturday, July 7th, 2018 @ 8:46 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Friday, the British police arrested Tommy Robinson, founder and former leader of the English Defence League, a far-right anti-Islam group
Published: Sunday, June 3rd, 2018 @ 2:04 pm
By: Daily Wire
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This morning, Triad Business Journal ran a piece with the title, “N.C. governor ‘open to options’ to keep NFL in Charlotte.” Of course, we all know what that means: state money, tax breaks, incentive payments, corporate welfare
Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 @ 6:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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MLS has chosen finalists for their next two expansion teams, and neither North Carolina bid made the cut.
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 11:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As most of you may know, I take education very seriously.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017 @ 2:30 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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It's a cool October evening at Guy Smith Park in Greenville. The defending national champion East Carolina University Club Baseball team is warming up before their intrasquad scrimmage
Published: Saturday, November 25th, 2017 @ 3:28 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Legends Football League, formerly known as the Lingerie Football League, responded to the NFL this week by announcing that they stand for the national anthem because the sacrifices made by American heroes are "far too sacred" to protest.
Published: Sunday, October 1st, 2017 @ 9:16 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Before joining the John Locke Foundation, I spent 28 years in the sports industry as an executive, investment banker and consultant
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2017 @ 10:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On the Thursday "What Matters in North Carolina" program, host Mark Shiver spoke with Brian Balfour, executive vice-president of the Civitas Institute, to discuss the proposed Wake County sales tax increase on the Nov. 8 ballots, which will go to fund a mass transit plan
Published: Tuesday, November 1st, 2016 @ 2:46 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory updated elected officials from many of the North Carolina League of Municipalities' 540 member cities, towns and villages today on the ongoing efforts to recover from Hurricane Matthew, including the latest on the governor's Hurricane Matthew Recovery Task Force he established
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2016 @ 9:45 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Baseball is all the rage in Fayetteville, with the city close to signing a deal that would commit $35 million for a new baseball stadium in the hope of attracting a minor-league team to town.
Published: Friday, October 21st, 2016 @ 4:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Economic Development Advisory Board meeting is scheduled for 3:00 PM on Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2016 @ 1:12 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory joined community leaders and representatives from the Texas Rangers organization today to celebrate the return of baseball to the City of Kinston.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2016 @ 4:09 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Economic research has shown that stadium subsidies are bad public investments. That hasn't reduced the desire of local governments to throw money at professional sports teams
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2016 @ 6:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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He was not one of my old drinking buddies, but I shared a few drinks with him over the years.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 2:50 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Traditionally, city and county Parks and Recreation (P&R) departments provided the public with parks and user-fee-supported sports leagues -- soccer, softball, etc. Now, many P&R departments have expanded well beyond these boundaries. Some provide uncommon services that benefit only a...
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 3:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In its largest ever donation, The Service League of Greenville has pledged $2 million to Vidant Medical Center Foundation to help build the new cancer center and bed tower currently under construction on the Vidant Medical Center campus. This contribution to the new facility, which is set to open...
Published: Saturday, September 26th, 2015 @ 12:53 am
By: Chris Downey
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The hearing that will determine the fate of North Carolina's election reform law wrapped up Aug. 7. Groups that included the NC NAACP and the League of Women Voters of NC, joined by Eric Holder's (and Loretta Lynch's) U.S. Justice Department, are suing the state over election reform legislation (th
Published: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 11:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I am pleased to see folks reflecting on the status of youth sports. As a parent of two elementary school students, I have seen the successes and failures of sports programs in my community.
Published: Saturday, January 3rd, 2015 @ 9:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal judge in Winston-Salem today denied a petition to enjoin the State Board of Elections' implementation of new voting laws enacted in August 2013. (Text of order).
Published: Thursday, August 14th, 2014 @ 9:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The media hysteria over the budget debate on Jones Street is reaching a crescendo.
Published: Tuesday, July 29th, 2014 @ 4:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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What are Kay Hagan's positions on energy issues? It depends on the audience and whether or not it's an election year.
Published: Friday, June 6th, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: Christopher Maye
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We are hearing a lot about bullying lately. Its in our schools. Its in our work places. Its on the roads.
Published: Monday, April 7th, 2014 @ 7:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Raised in Littleton, North Carolina, Ella Baker graduated valedictorian from Shaw University on 1927.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 1:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Though a League of Women Voters presentation on the Affordable Care Act on Monday sounded more like talking points from the Obama administration than a current assessment of the national healthcare law's impacts and flaws, some uninsured people in attendance said the session was informative.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 7:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The League of Women Voters supports a national universal health care system, and in support of that aim one of its North Carolina units has created a speakers bureau that is offering public presentations with information on the Affordable Care Act and training public librarians to answer...
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2013 @ 7:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Red Sox baseball has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. It was introduced to me by my father at my first game in 1973.
Published: Friday, November 1st, 2013 @ 7:27 pm
By: Mike Hayes
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The state is asking a federal court to dismiss two lawsuits - one filed by the North Carolina NAACP and one filed by the League of Women Voters of N.C. - challenging the new law requiring voters to present government-issued identification when voting and changing other...
Published: Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As to why the NAACP and the League of Women Voters have filed separate complaints against the North Carolina Governor and the State Board of Elections due to HB 589 being signed into law on Monday, August 12, 2013, it could be that North Carolina is a political "battle ground" state.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 2:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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