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Fiancé of mass shooting victim claims that he didn’t know memorial event would be so political and feels used
Published: Thursday, November 17th, 2022 @ 6:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Almost as dumb as wearing face masks to stop Covid
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 9:53 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Maybe you remember the classic 1975 film, Network, where the anchor Howard Beale, throws open a window and shouts, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 5:38 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Every child deserves to grow up in a safe community surrounded by a loving family and to have a future filled with opportunity and with hope.
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 7:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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House and Senate Republicans are stuck in a debate about oversight of the state's largest mental health provider and who will control mental health services for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians
Published: Thursday, July 13th, 2017 @ 1:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Susan Martin is running for a third term to represent House District 8, taking in two-thirds of Wilson County and one-third of Pitt County, where she is being challenged by Charlie Pat Farris, who is a lawyer, lifelong resident, and military veteran
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 2:24 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In any industry, the quality of service or whether one receives services at all hinges on one critical element: access
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2016 @ 10:25 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The U.S. Department of Justice should butt out of North Carolina's mental health problems, since it is partially responsible for getting us into the situation we now face.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:31 am
By: Tom Campbell
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More than half of North Carolina voters and 70 percent of Republicans would be less likely to re-elect Gov. Pat McCrory if he supported the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, according to a poll released today by the Foundation for Government Accountability.
Published: Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 @ 7:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Gary Pendleton believes the tax-cutting and program consolidation strategies he pursued while serving four terms as a Wake County Commissioner are a good template to follow as a state representative in House District 49.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If anyone you love is mentally ill God help you, because the odds of getting adequate help elsewhere are about as good as winning the lottery. I speak from experience. My brother is bi-polar.
Published: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Today, Governor McCrory delivered a press conference where he outlined many of the state's initiatives and what he plans to oversee through his cabinet during the 2014 legislative year and into 2015.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 3:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the Crisis Solutions Initiative, a new state effort aimed at addressing the failures of Gov. Easley's 2001 mental health reforms.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory and DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos deserve credit for trying to sort out and find solutions to our Mental Health program. North Carolina's 2001 mental health "reforms" have been a disaster and the McCrory administration is the first to seriously address them.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Almost unheard of before 1966, mass shootings like the Newtown massacre have become more and more frequent in modern American life.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 6:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Perdue was wrong on several levels to have committed the state to an agreement over the Dorothea Dix property, but so is the legislature wrong in reneging on the deal.
Published: Monday, March 25th, 2013 @ 7:57 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The physical abandonment of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh is a final exclamation point on the state's moral abandonment of the mentally ill, essentially returning us to mid-19th century conditions when the mentally ill were confined to jails, locked in attics or hidden from sight in poorhouses.
Published: Saturday, October 27th, 2012 @ 8:14 am
By: Tom Campbell
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