East Carolina will open a two-game road swing with its longest trip of the season, traveling to Dallas to face American Athletic Conference West Division contender No. 23 SMU Saturday.
Published: Sunday, November 10th, 2019 @ 8:15 pm
By: ECU Sports
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In front of a potential record crowd, the ECU women's basketball team will start its season and the Kim McNeill era on Wednesday morning as the Pirates take on Middle Tennessee State inside Minges Coliseum.
Published: Saturday, November 9th, 2019 @ 11:17 am
By: ECU Sports
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Here is a collection of news and updates around the web for the Carolina Panthers
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2019 @ 10:53 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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Remarks by President Trump at a Salute to America
Published: Monday, July 8th, 2019 @ 6:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A bill before the North Carolina General Assembly would let reflexologists practice without needing a license from the state Board of Massage and Bodywork Therapy.
Published: Sunday, April 21st, 2019 @ 11:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The recent legislative adjustments to North Carolina's 2018-19 state General Fund budget produced two main political controversies that we'll hear more about as we move through the campaign season to the November midterms
Published: Sunday, June 10th, 2018 @ 8:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most Americans have been propagandized rather than educated on the causes of the War Between the States (aka, The War of Northern Aggression; aka, The War to Prevent Southern Independence; aka, the Civil War).
Published: Monday, May 21st, 2018 @ 3:01 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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Almost as shocking as the allegations of sexual and racial misconduct about Carolina Panthers’ owner Jerry Richardson published Friday was the news Sunday night that the founding owner of the NFL franchise would sell it at season’s end
Published: Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Glen Campbell passes at 81 after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease
Published: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 2:01 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Summer is here and there are many great events coming to AOP over the next few months
Published: Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 @ 11:16 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Cooper issued the following comment on the plane crash that killed 16 service members.
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 10:35 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Even though we Georgians claim the Allman Brothers as our own, they actually did not settle in Georgia until after they were well on their way to stardom. Of course no good story stand on its own, they must be embellished with a bit of folklore.
Published: Sunday, May 28th, 2017 @ 12:57 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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A legislative oversight committee decided on Tuesday to delay a push to eliminate and consolidate a number of occupational licensing boards.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2016 @ 3:24 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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My favorite professional football team, the Carolina Panthers, have just defeated the Arizona Cardinals 49 to 15, and will be headed to the 50th Super Bowl.
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2016 @ 9:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In recent years, the microbrew industry in North Carolina has come into conflict with state regulations artificially limiting the growth of an otherwise booming business model. Specifically, North Carolina law mandates that a microbrewery may only distribute and sell its own beer if it sells less...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:26 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A recent Carolina Journal article highlighted an important ruling against an occupational license in Texas. North Carolina state leaders should take note.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week Carolina Journal reported on an important ruling against an occupational license in Texas. State leaders should take note.
Published: Friday, August 28th, 2015 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A ruling by the Texas Supreme Court earlier this summer striking down an occupational licensing requirement has raised hopes that other states, including North Carolina, will move to ease job licensing restrictions.
Published: Monday, August 24th, 2015 @ 6:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public school superintendents have been in the news lately, and it's not been flattering. Desperate to move on from the contentious tenure of Superintendent Katie McGee, the Brunswick County Board of Education hired Edward Pruden in 2010 at a salary of $159,400 a year. Late last year, the school...
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 4:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Public schools superintendents have been in the news lately and it's not been flattering.
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 6:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University's renowned football coach Ruffin McNeill will share his message of achieving success on and off the playing field as the keynote speaker at a celebration of Black History Month at Beaufort County Community College.
Published: Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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List of resource links.
Published: Friday, November 2nd, 2012 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Most people think of occupations requiring licenses as those like medicine and law. North Carolina, however, has made it state's business to certify auctioneers, barbers, librarians, manicurists, and over a hundred others.
Published: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 2:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"That free-market stuff sounds great in theory, but it doesn't work in the real world." Or so I've been told countless times by critics, sparring partners, and emailers.
Published: Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 @ 4:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Encrypted in the heart of Time lives a code, an improvisational theme that modulates by the second then returns again - not dead, not even gone - a code the writer attempts to break.
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2011 @ 11:22 am
By: Edward Mann
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