Consider this scenario. A couple of years before a politician is elected to his current job, he signs a lease agreement worth as much as $1 million with a large private company.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2019 @ 9:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Nancy Maxine Hunt Nash left her earthly realm, peacefully and at home, on October 15, 2018
Published: Friday, October 19th, 2018 @ 5:01 pm
By: Announcements
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District Court Judge Pell Cooper, Gov. Roy Cooper's brother, manages three businesses - an apparent violation of state judicial rules designed to prevent conflicts of interest by judges. In 2009, state officials forced another district court judge who refused to leave two corporate boards to resign
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tracing the ownership of the land hosting a Nash County solar farm built on a former cow pasture is complicated business
Published: Monday, March 12th, 2018 @ 9:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Agriculture equipment distributor LS Tractor USA will expand operations in Nash County, creating 31 jobs over five years, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017 @ 2:48 pm
By: Governor's Office
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My first grandchild had his 2nd birthday recently and his parents gave him a ukulele. My son asked me to tune it for him. I told him he was too young to appreciate the tuning but it was better just to let him get used to making sounds. The music might come later.
Published: Saturday, August 19th, 2017 @ 3:26 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Somehow muddleheaded Liberals, like goofy-almost-vice-president Tim Kaine, blamed the gun violence that saved the lives of countless young students.
Published: Thursday, December 8th, 2016 @ 2:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If there is an Article V convention, we will lose the Constitution we have, and another Constitution will be imposed.
Published: Monday, February 15th, 2016 @ 5:13 am
By: Publius Huldah
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The original country music outlaw was and still is an unabashed iconoclast in a world of conformity
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 11:52 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I got a chance to ride the rails with mom before planes and cars took over traveling
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 8:53 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I had no real clue what they were citing. It was early in the legislative works and got neither other publicity nor any explanation to me as an average citizen.
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 1:28 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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It was a lovely September day and we were working on a big pine tree in Tarboro. It had to be dropped just right and gently to prevent yard damage to an elegant front yard in a nice neighborhood of that lovely town in Edgecombe County.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 4:50 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Ted Rowland "Ron" Pinner, Jr., 64, of Nashville died Friday, May 23, 2014 at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Monday, May 26th, 2014 @ 1:51 pm
By: Announcements
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So how will the city pay for this event center? In the words of Charles Penny, Rocky Mount City Manager, "By expanding our tax base."
Published: Wednesday, April 9th, 2014 @ 12:28 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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We told you the other day about the outrageous behavior of the Rocky Mount City Council.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 3:53 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When I first heard about what happened Monday night in Rocky Mount, I couldn't believe it. A reader from the Rocky Mount area tipped me off to an incident at that night's city council meeting. He directed me to this video, which details it in all its, um, glory.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 12:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Nutkao USA, Inc. will be locating its nut butter manufacturing operation in Nash County.
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 8:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Susie Sharp, the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.
Published: Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 @ 11:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Jeff Collins may have foreshadowed debate on a proposal to rework the way auto insurance rates are set when he told a panel hearing his...
Published: Monday, April 15th, 2013 @ 4:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A county located on the border between the coastal and piedmont sections of the state, Nash County has long been heralded as a leading agricultural county in the state of North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, April 13th, 2013 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory and N.C. Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced that Nash Building Systems Inc., a manufacturer of metal roofing, metal building components and pre-engineered steel buildings, will expand its facility in Edgecombe County.
Published: Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 @ 4:51 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The first two times I lived in Washington, DC - doing internships during the summer of 1987 and the spring semester of 1988 - I ended up taking the Greyhound bus back and forth to North Carolina several times to see friends or pick up some extra cash as a newspaper reporter in Nash County.
Published: Saturday, December 22nd, 2012 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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David Hallock Nash died peacefully at home on Aug. 9, 2011. He was born in Norwalk, Conn., on Dec. 7, 1923, son of the late Harold L. Nash and Florence Starr Nash.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2011 @ 12:55 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. David Hallock Nash, age 87, a resident of Washington, died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011, at his home. Arrangements will be announced by Paul Funeral Home & Crematory, Washington.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 @ 4:44 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Kenneth Wayne Downing, 60, a resident of 1055 Weathervane Hill Drive, Rocky Mount, died Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at Nash General Hospital, Rocky Mount. The family will receive relatives and friends at 1055 Weathervane Hill Drive, Rocky Mount, and at 42 Brown St., Plymouth.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2011 @ 11:50 am
By: Announcements
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Mary Lou Coleman, 65, died Sunday, June 26, 2011. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at the Letchworth Funeral Home Chapel in Scotland Neck. The Rev. Reece Jones will be presiding. Mary Lou was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother.
Published: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 @ 2:16 pm
By: Announcements
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