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The federal government is sending out a $1,200 Federal Economic Impact Payments (otherwise known as a federal stimulus payment) for a qualifying adult.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 @ 1:42 am
By: Governor's Office
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Calm down people!
Published: Friday, April 10th, 2020 @ 1:34 am
By: LifeZette
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I used to live in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, when I was young and could barely remember anything of substance.
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 @ 9:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Last week’s news that McClatchy newspapers were declaring bankruptcy wasn’t a complete surprise.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 3:34 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Like a lot of political junkies, I switched on the news last Monday night to watch the Iowa caucus returns. It was 10:00 PM (Eastern Time) by the time I had tucked the kids in and done some housework.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2020 @ 12:40 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The federal courts have become political, rather apolitical, which is what they were intended to be.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 @ 5:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Jackson Paper Manufacturing Company, North Carolina's largest recycled paper producer, will open a new plant in Burke County, creating 42 jobs, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Saturday, August 18th, 2018 @ 2:33 am
By: Governor's Office
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Why do our courts allow the silly people to push them around?
Published: Monday, February 5th, 2018 @ 9:33 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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Newspapers refuse to die. On a superficial level, that's a good thing.
Published: Sunday, October 1st, 2017 @ 1:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A day after UNC-Chapel Hill wrapped up its meeting with the NCAA's infractions committee, North Carolina's highest court has delivered the university a victory in a separate - but related - case
Published: Sunday, August 20th, 2017 @ 5:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a bill that would change the way local governments issue public notices and referred to the measure as an attack on newspapers
Published: Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 @ 8:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Farewell to February, with its' paper lace, hearts and best chances of snow on the rabbit patch.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 @ 8:18 am
By: Michele Rhem
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Shooting Steel videos and installing cheap metal targets on his farm. The above photo is not practical. Steel plates in old tires seem best.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 3:51 am
By: Ted McDonald
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Governor Roy Cooper announced today that Clearwater Paper Corporation will launch a major expansion at its facility in Cleveland County, creating 180 jobs over the next two years.
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2017 @ 1:25 am
By: Russell Allen
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This really has me concerned!
Published: Monday, January 23rd, 2017 @ 10:59 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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It is that time, when bells are ringing and children are singing. It is the Christmas season, the most wonderful time of the year, many say.
Published: Saturday, December 31st, 2016 @ 7:37 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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It has been suggested that the expansion of free market think tanks on our college campuses is educationally harmful.
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) commented on the release of the 28 classified pages of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001
Published: Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 @ 9:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I realize that this is Foolishness of the first order but let your mind wander with me a moment.
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 10:12 am
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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A resolution Congressman Jones introduced to urge the House Intelligence Committee to publish the 28 classified pages of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2016 @ 9:54 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) met with General James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, about declassifying the redacted 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001
Published: Wednesday, May 25th, 2016 @ 12:23 am
By: Christopher Maye
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The poor guy was all alone in the midst of 40 other people.
Published: Monday, May 2nd, 2016 @ 4:51 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In 1972, at the University of Georgia, our college newspaper staff opposed the proposal to change the name of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism to the Henry W. Grady School of Mass Communications
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I realize that this is Foolishness of the first order but let your mind wander with me a moment.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:32 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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An East Carolina University art professor has been recognized once again by the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, which is cataloguing his papers, photographs, sketches and letters.
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 7:24 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Reporter Lynn Bonner and the News and Observer showed us once again why people have stopped buying newspapers: Reporters keep trying to make the news, not report it.
Published: Saturday, December 6th, 2014 @ 4:12 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Newspapers never have been hesitant to shame a public official into appropriate behavior. It's a time-honored tradition. Have you ever noticed things like "Sen. Blowhard did not return a phone call," or "Rep. Self-Dealer did not answer an email" in news stories? Those are there not just to let...
Published: Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 @ 10:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It tells a gripping story. The 131-page report by Kenneth L. Wainstein and his colleagues peels back 18 years of scandalous secrecy at UNC-Chapel Hill to reveal that between 1993 and 2011, more than 3,100 students took "paper classes."
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 12:12 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Is the market for news and information in North Carolina overly concentrated in a few hands?
Published: Saturday, August 16th, 2014 @ 9:05 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much has been written about the attorneys the Governor and the legislative leaders have hired to defend the Voter Information Verification Act (VIVA) against lawsuits brought by the NC-NAACP, the ACLU and the U.S. Justice Department. In contrast, to date, there have been no stories spotlighting the
Published: Sunday, July 6th, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Almost every day we hear the Anointed One making some grand pronouncement about something or other. Invariably he is "backed up" by folks who would seem to be from the constituency he seems to be romancing that particular day.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 4:01 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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