This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) and over a dozen of his House colleagues urged federal fisheries regulators to consider science from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute before following through on a 2016 commercial and recreational closure of the South Atlantic red snapper
Published: Friday, June 17th, 2016 @ 12:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) today released new details on a planned website attack that would have resulted in NCGOP party funds being diverted into non-Party accounts controlled by Chairman Harnett.
Published: Sunday, April 10th, 2016 @ 8:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A poet and writer of many short stories, including the ones using the "Flim Flam Yarn" title, Guy Owen was launched into fame with comical and popular The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Roger D. Knapp, age 71, a resident of Washington, NC passed away on June 13, 2015.
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 11:49 am
By: Announcements
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There's an old saying that says "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." The phrase is used to emphasize the fact that simply making something easy to do does not guarantee anybody will do it.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 @ 3:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The doors to the Kannapolis Research Center opened in 2008, thanks to the funding of billionaire owner of Dole Foods David Murdock - and North Carolina taxpayers.
Published: Sunday, December 28th, 2014 @ 3:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Saturday, May 24, 2014 the Washington Police Department arrested Rodney Darnell Putney, age 25, of Washington Street Washington.
Published: Tuesday, May 27th, 2014 @ 7:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Anointed One's administration is about to propose some changes to the Government's dietary guidelines.
Published: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 @ 12:43 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Harris Teeter started out as two independent grocery stores. In 1939, Willis L. Teeter and his brother Paul opened Teeters Food Mart in Mooresville with a $1,7000 loan.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Co-founder of Food Town (later renamed Food Lion), Ralph Ketner started working in the grocery business as a child in his father's meat store in Salisbury, North Carolina and later as a teenager during the Depression in his brother's Kannapolis, North Carolina store.
Published: Monday, December 2nd, 2013 @ 1:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina isn't the only state that plans to idle its Work First poverty program temporarily after October if the federal government shutdown continues. Other states also are moving in the same direction, officials say.
Published: Wednesday, October 16th, 2013 @ 11:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The reasons we have consented to limited government are to preserve the freedom to pursue happiness, the freedom to be different and the freedom to be left alone.
Published: Thursday, August 1st, 2013 @ 12:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Considering that the foundation of government in our country is based on the Constitution, wouldn't it make more sense to teach lawyers how best to preserve its integrity rather than inspire them to help dismantle it?
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2013 @ 11:02 am
By: Diane Rufino
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I'll tell you. Ms. Schumer's boy Charlie is involved in it and it is his staff doing the drafting.
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 10:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We're getting earth-shattering, heart-breaking, and sometimes infuriating details about the travesties that occurred at our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last year.
Published: Saturday, May 11th, 2013 @ 8:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Born on April 29, 1952 in the town of Kannapolis (Cabarrus County), North Carolina, Ralph Dale Earnhardt, like other racing oriented families such as the Pettys and the Labontes, was the son of a NASCAR driver.
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2013 @ 1:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's too bad the Washington Monument remains closed following last year's earthquake. That is traditionally the first thing the bureaucrats (read - politicians) threaten to close when they haven't received the total amount of money they have requested in their budgets.
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 6:06 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Diversity, as commonly used by government, academia, and industry, has become so normalized that we are all expected to embrace it unquestioningly.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 1:03 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Tomatoes that don't rot for a year; sunscreen made from watermelons; and super-cancer-fighting broccoli: These are but a few of the wonders on display at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis.
Published: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 @ 8:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the ancient Roman author Vegetius wrote that those who desire peace should prepare for war, he was offering a timeless insight about the risks of presenting a weak front to an aggressive opponent. If only James Madison had taken the insight to heart.
Published: Monday, June 11th, 2012 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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