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Invite those who hold the South dear, to honor those who gave their all to protect those that they loved from the tyranny of invasion and occupation, to participate in a memorial service at the Confederate Monument in Oakdale Cemetery
Published: Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 @ 3:26 pm
By: Charles Philip Williams
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UVA's anti-Israel student group used images of Hamas's Oct 7 attack to call for solidarity in 'resisting the occupation'
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 @ 4:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
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President Joe Biden said an Israeli occupation of Gaza would be a “big mistake” and that there must be a “path to a Palestinian state” in the wake of the ongoing deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Published: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 9:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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Occupational therapy professor enlists ECU filmmakers for public safety service project
Published: Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 @ 8:48 am
By: ECU News Services
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Jon Sanders, director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation, testifies Wednesday about occupational licensing before the N.C. House Regulatory Reform Committee.
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 5:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New Study Shows NC Creates the Most Barriers to Earning a Living in the Region
Published: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 9:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nationwide news outlets have begun reporting on a historic event: a local nurse has set a new record for time elapsed without mentioning her occupation being nursing, waiting a grand total of 3.0011 minutes.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 12:46 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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ECU’s occupational therapy program a perfect fit for Rogan twins
Published: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 8:51 am
By: ECU News Services
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The Institute for Justice (IJ) has released an update of its stellar “License to Work” report, which examines the burdens of occupational licensing regulations across the country.
Published: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Physical therapy, occupational therapy students partner for free clinic
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 @ 7:41 pm
By: ECU News Services
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ECU to offer North Carolina public universities’ only Doctor of Occupational Therapy program
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
By: ECU News Services
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According to the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC), more than 1,400 short-term, occupational skill training courses are offered across the state to train, retrain, and upgrade workers for current or future job skill requirements or certifications.
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Actor Alec Baldwin said the latest report from the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau exonerates him from the on-set shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.
Published: Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 @ 7:17 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Secretary of Labor, acting through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), enacted a vaccine mandate on November 5, 2021 for much of the Nation's work force.
Published: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I recently listened as a friend voiced frustration that she was not paid her worth. She believed that her occupation, in retail, was not as valued as it should be and that it was as worthy as any other employment.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 10:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. Denise Donica doesn’t live in the negative. Positive outcomes fuel Donica, an associate professor and chair of the East Carolina University Department of Occupational Therapy.
Published: Friday, June 11th, 2021 @ 4:34 pm
By: ECU News Services
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More recently, however, the massage board has been considering requiring a massage and bodywork license from reflexologists.
Published: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 @ 2:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Bill would eliminate provisions that broadly criminalize rules violations of certain occupational licensing boards
Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2021 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Occupational therapists who move to North Carolina would have an easier time getting back to work under a bill in the General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 7:27 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Donors make largest planned gift in allied health history
Published: Monday, December 21st, 2020 @ 1:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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HBO probably never expected one of its high-profile dramas to deliver a message about overly burdensome occupational licensing.
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 @ 9:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Adam Thierer and Trace Mitchell write at Real Clear Policy that the Trump administration has highlighted the need for occupational licensing reform.
Published: Thursday, March 12th, 2020 @ 7:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Heat-related illnesses, pesticide exposure and other occupational hazards face migrant and seasonal farmworkers each day.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2019 @ 10:16 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The N.C. Senate on Wednesday, June 26, unanimously passed House Bill 770, which prevents occupational licensing boards from automatically denying a license because of a prior conviction.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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An occupational license is a special kind of government regulation known as an entry regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2019 @ 8:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sometimes, when trying to explain how a political issue is a thorny mess, I've used the phrase "public-choice problem." Recent examples include such issues as occupational licensing, film incentives, government favoritism for renewable energy, even funeral regulations.
Published: Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 11:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans and Democrats rarely agree, but in North Carolina the two parties seem to have found some common ground in a bipartisan agreement, which comes at the crossroads of criminal justice reform and occupational licensing reform.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2019 @ 11:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Occupational licensing may have cost North Carolina more than 42,000 jobs and millions in economic losses, a new study from the Institute for Justice says.
Published: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 @ 2:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Funeral director is not exactly the kind of enterprise someone is prepared to comparison-shop for, but still, as with other services, the more options, the better for consumers
Published: Monday, October 8th, 2018 @ 10:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Vermont man’s attempts to work as a funeral director in North Carolina were thwarted when the N.C. Court of Appeals upheld a decision rejecting his request for a reciprocal license
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2018 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has added her state to the list of states working to restore the right to earn a living to their citizens
Published: Sunday, September 9th, 2018 @ 10:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Wilson Times editors took the General Assembly to task for passing House Bill 277, which would create a study group to decide how to the state should regulate naturopathic doctors as "licensed health care practitioners."
Published: Saturday, June 30th, 2018 @ 8:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is strange, isn't it, that a state that may be indirectly responsible for touching off the de-licensing revolution among the states still hasn't joined that revolution
Published: Thursday, May 3rd, 2018 @ 12:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Proving that great minds think alike, both Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and the Bard himself, William Shakespeare, memorably described the human tendency towards hypocrisy
Published: Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 @ 3:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In The Right to Earn a Living Act: A Well-Considered Answer to Licensing, I examined the first two statement of findings behind the Right to Earn a Living Act
Published: Monday, March 26th, 2018 @ 11:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, the Beverly Boswell for N.C. House Campaign released the following statement
Published: Friday, March 23rd, 2018 @ 4:37 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's generally a bad idea to try to speak for an entire country, especially when it's not your own. NBC's now-former Olympics commentator, Joshua Cooper Ramo, has learned the hard way that speaking for "every Korean" will quickly get you fired, particularly about an occupation by a foreign power.
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2018 @ 9:13 am
By: Daily Wire
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A pair of North Carolina occupational licensing boards warring over who may lawfully use acupuncture needles for treatment and therapy could thrust the state into another constitutional embarrassment, state Sen. Andy Wells said Tuesday
Published: Friday, January 12th, 2018 @ 10:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jon Sanders writes about a new report from the National Employment Law Project, which looks at how state occupational licensing laws make it difficult for people with arrest and conviction records to find work
Published: Sunday, December 31st, 2017 @ 2:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Occupational licensing rules may be keeping people from moving across state lines and toward job opportunities, a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 11:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's the holidays. Time for good cheer, glad tidings and songs of the season. Good will to all, peace and joy
Published: Saturday, December 9th, 2017 @ 2:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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