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County Republicans request the State Party intercede to correct issues.
Published: Friday, May 1st, 2026 @ 6:19 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Public meetings provide public with what is happening and why in Beaufort County; more awareness is needed.
Published: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 8:57 am
By: Dave Hudson
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The City of Washington flirts with violating NC Statutes on open public meetings.
Published: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 10:40 pm
By: Gary Ceres
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"MAGA Republicans descending on their school board meetings after January 6, like January 6."
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 @ 2:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Duke Energy's plans would raise energy costs between $86 and $95 a month per household.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 3:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Beaufort County's majority, a veritable coalition of nominal Republicans and Democratic Socialists, voted against improving the quality of the filming of the board's meetings, all within their blissful quest for abject mediocrity.
Published: Friday, April 15th, 2022 @ 6:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and the republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee expanded their ongoing probe into the federal government’s policing of school board meetings to include the Department of Education.
Published: Thursday, February 3rd, 2022 @ 4:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. House Redistricting Committee submitted its proposed state district maps Friday, Oct. 22, after two months of public hearings and open meetings.
Published: Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 12:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Task Force for Safer Schools is finalizing a statement chiding parents for strongly voicing their views and at times disrupting recent school board meetings.
Published: Sunday, November 14th, 2021 @ 7:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Task Force for Safer Schools is finalizing a statement chiding parents for strongly voicing their views and at times disrupting recent school board meetings.
Published: Friday, November 12th, 2021 @ 11:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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No big announcement. No contentious public meetings. No press conference. But most important — no economic incentives.
Published: Friday, May 17th, 2019 @ 4:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The Beaufort County Commissioners met December 3, 2018 to discuss a myriad of issues, but not least of which was the approval of 110,000.00 of already budgeted public money to significantly change the construct of filming those general meetings, and to what degree we provide a quality product.
Published: Friday, December 21st, 2018 @ 7:30 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined Thursday to take up Rowan County v. Lund, a North Carolina case that gave the high court the opportunity to uphold its previous rulings pertaining to prayer before public meetings and to clear up conflicting rulings on legislator-led prayer in lower courts
Published: Friday, June 29th, 2018 @ 1:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Nash County Republican sat through two legislative meetings in two weeks hearing Duke Energy officials describe subsidies and carve-outs handed over to the solar energy industry at taxpayer expense
Published: Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 @ 5:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A government body can't block the media from reporting on one of its public meetings because its leader doesn't like the coverage he thinks it will get.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Media law experts believe the North Carolina Military Affairs Commission violated the spirit — if not the letter — of state laws requiring the conduct of public meetings in a transparent manner
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2017 @ 9:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As student protesters continue to wreak havoc at public meetings and expand their list of complaints against the University of North Carolina system's leadership, they will do nothing but hurt their chances of being taken seriously, said student Zack King.
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2016 @ 2:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said he is "alarmed" that the state Department of Public Instruction and State Board of Education agreed, possibly in violation of state open meetings laws and legislative requirements, to shift funds intended to help children learn to read into maintai
Published: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 6:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory will attend the quarterly meetings of the Republican Governors Association. The meetings will begin Monday and continue through Wednesday and be held in Aspen, Colorado.
Published: Tuesday, July 21st, 2015 @ 2:05 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Advocates for reform of the way North Carolina draws its congressional and legislative election maps are taking their arguments to audiences across North Carolina. Redistricting reformers have conducted public meetings recently in Greensboro, Fayetteville, and Charlotte, with other events...
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Congressman Robert Pittenger, home for the summer recess, has been holding Town Hall Meetings in his district. In a recent one, a Tea Partier rose to ask Pittenger what he described as an easy question, requesting a simple yes or no answer.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2013 @ 8:10 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Last week state Sens. Thom Goolsby (R-New Hanover) and Tom Apadoca (R-Buncombe) sponsored legislation (SB 125) to make it a class 3 misdemeanor to violate public records and open meetings laws, which would at long last give those laws some teeth.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2013 @ 10:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Beaufort County Republican Precinct Committee meetings will be held this coming Tuesday in the Beaufort County Court house with doors opening at 6:00 pm.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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NC DOT announced today it will hold two public meetings about proposed toll changes on its ferry routes.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 8:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I disagreed with the late Bill Friday on nearly every public policy issue you can imagine. But over two decades of regular phone conversations and occasional meetings, Mr. Friday and I never had a disagreeable moment.
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 10:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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What is the Sunshine Law? Every State has a Sunshine Law that provides public access to public records, public meeting minutes, and open meetings.
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2011 @ 10:05 am
By: Betty Murphy
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