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Funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will also identify new routes for passenger rail within NC
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 9:14 am
By: Governor's Office
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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper reestablished the Andrea Harris Equity Task Force through an Executive Order to continue the work that the group has done to address social, economic and health disparities in underserved and underrepresented communities.
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 11:03 am
By: Governor's Office
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Cultural Arts LIVE Conference will feature virtual learning on art, music, writing, dance and more
Published: Monday, November 30th, 2020 @ 10:42 am
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced new appointments to boards and commissions across North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 @ 10:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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At least 79 teacher assistants and instructors at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill are threatening to withhold grades unless their demands in the Silent Sam controversy are met, local activists say
Published: Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bill Friday was right. Friday, the founding president of the 16 campus University of North Carolina System, fought with then-Governor Bob Scott in 1971 over the creation of the new system
Published: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 11:39 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Originally, the term "Federalist" referred to supporters of the federal constitution of 1787. The Federalist political party emerged during George Washington's presidency.
Published: Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 @ 8:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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William Blount, the eldest son of Jacob Blount, Sr., and Barbara Gray Blount, was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, on March 26, 1749.
Published: Saturday, April 18th, 2015 @ 2:24 pm
By: John William Pope Foundation
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In the summer of 1918, five large German submarines (U-boats) crossed the Atlantic and operated against the lightly protected shipping off the North American coast.
Published: Saturday, March 21st, 2015 @ 4:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born in the small town of Godwin (Cumberland County) in 1900, David Marshall "Carbine" Williams was the creator of the M-1 Carbine, the U.S. Army's favorite semi-automatic rifle during World War II.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week Gov. Pat McCrory released his budget proposal for the 2015-2017 biennium, his spending plan for $22 billion in each of the next two fiscal years. While there are some positive spending decisions in this budget, there are also some discouraging choices in certain areas of government...
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2015 @ 2:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Josiah Collins III was born in Edenton, North Carolina in March 1808.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 1:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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W. Richard ("W.R.") Moore of Washington, N.C., former Special Deputy Attorney General, passed away after a brief illness on January 4th, 2015, at the age of 65.
Published: Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 @ 12:56 pm
By: Announcements
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Well-known for his popular magazine columns later reprinted in collection form, including Grenadine Etching (1947) and The Old Man the Boy (1957), Robert Ruark became even more of a household name after Something of Value (1955) was turned into a popular 1957 movie.
Published: Tuesday, January 6th, 2015 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Born in Wilmington on December 29, 1915, Robert Chester Ruark was known as the "poor man's Hemingway" and he became one of North Carolina's most prominent twentieth-century writers.
Published: Saturday, November 29th, 2014 @ 8:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Cherokee were the first Native American residents of present-day Buncombe County, and German, Scottish, and English settlers inhabited the area in the early to mid-1700s.
Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Found in Yancey County, Mount Mitchell is the largest mountain in North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, August 30th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The August 24, 1587 baptism of Virginia Dare, the first English born Christian in the New World. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Sunday, June 15th, 2014 @ 1:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On December 28, 1700, Lawson -- with a party of five Englishmen and various Indian guides picked up along the way -- set out on a brave journey through the wastes of Carolina.
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Executive Mansion was completed in 1891 and remains one of the state's finest examples of the Queen Anne style of Victorian architecture.
Published: Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 @ 1:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory, in conjunction with the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, released the participants in the 2013 Inaugural parade. This year's parade will be held on Saturday, January 12, in downtown Raleigh and will include participants from around the state.
Published: Saturday, January 12th, 2013 @ 12:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Dare County, one of North Carolina's coastal counties, has a rich history with national significance.
Published: Saturday, November 24th, 2012 @ 6:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The first settlers were French Protestants from Virginia. Among early inhabitants were John Lawson, surveyor general of the colony and author of the first history of Carolina (1709), and Christopher Gale, first chief justice of the colony.
Published: Saturday, November 17th, 2012 @ 9:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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