Governor Pat McCrory today signed a bill that will move both the state's presidential primary and the general primary for state elected offices to March 15, 2016. The governor signed the bill after getting an agreement from the legislature to make revisions to a section of the bill regarding...
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 9:57 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Supporters of East Carolina University gave a record-breaking $39 million in commitments in the 2014-15 year to benefit scholarships, faculty resources, programs, research, facilities, health care, athletics and more.
Published: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 @ 9:15 am
By: ECU News Services
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After the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources sent a letter to Attorney General Roy Cooper, The North Carolina Republican Party urged Cooper to put politics aside and do his job by defending the state against new overreaching federal EPA rules.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 @ 10:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Democrat Candidate for Governor Who Led Redistricting For Democrats Commits Massive Flip Flop on Redistricting
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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For the last decade I have taught entrepreneurship to literally tens of thousands of students in big classes, small seminars, and on the Internet in a massively open online course (MOOC). The sheer diversity of these students - their abilities, their backgrounds, their personal traits, and their...
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2015 @ 3:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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On Saturday, June 6, North Carolina's Commerce Department Secretary and staunch defender of corporate welfare, John Skvarla, appeared on WRAL's On the Record...
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Pick your natural resource: oil, land, copper, coal, you name it. At one time or another, it has been predicted that we will one day run out of that resource. These predictions have all been based on a false economic assumption, namely that because the physical quantity of something is finite...
Published: Friday, June 5th, 2015 @ 6:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory was in our nation's capital today to express his support for environmentally safe and responsible offshore energy exploration before Congress. The governor addressed the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Energy and Mineral Land Resources Subcommittee hearing titled...
Published: Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 @ 6:29 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory will testify before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Energy and Mineral Land Resources Subcommittee hearing titled "Examining the Future Impacts of President Obama's Offshore Energy Plan" on Wednesday.
Published: Tuesday, April 14th, 2015 @ 11:02 pm
By: Chris Downey
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It was announced on Tuesday that Mercedes-Benz has decided to move its corporate headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta, GA, and not to the Raleigh area, as many were hoping. According to this article in the Triangle Business Journal, Georgia offered the company $23 million in corporate welfare...
Published: Friday, April 3rd, 2015 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans from Governor McCrory and Commerce Secretary John Skvarla to the leadership and rank and file alike in the General Assembly are falling all over themselves trying to extend and expand so-called business incentive programs, aka corporate welfare. So what does the platform of the party...
Published: Sunday, March 22nd, 2015 @ 8:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and Cultural Resources Secretary Susan Kluttz recently continued their tour throughout North Carolina to highlight the successful efforts to revitalize urban downtowns, main streets and rural communities through the historic tax credit program. As the tour continues across...
Published: Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 @ 9:15 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory has appointed Gerard Carroll chair of the Environmental Management Commission...
Published: Sunday, March 8th, 2015 @ 1:44 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The taxpayers of North Carolina have historically made a tremendous commitment to education, and the next biennium will continue that legacy. More than 54 percent, or over $12 billion of our General Fund spending will be directed to education in each year of the biennium.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2015 @ 3:08 am
By: Chris Downey
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In 2011, the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission submitted a report forecasting sea level rise along the coast for the next three decades.
Published: Thursday, February 26th, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Problems with Workers Compensation: Workers compensation claims have cost the taxpayers $896 million dollars during the past six years...
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 7:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments
Published: Saturday, January 31st, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The state Department of Transportation (DOT) is reportedly charging the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) for merely looking up public records in its files — and that's before providing the records themselves. According to The News & Observer, the SELC has requested to look at DOT...
Published: Thursday, January 22nd, 2015 @ 12:22 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Naughty and Nice: North Carolina had plenty of both this year. Here is our list!
Published: Sunday, January 4th, 2015 @ 12:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Sunday, December 28th, 2014 @ 3:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Renowned underwater explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau urged action to protect endangered ocean resources in a presentation Wednesday, Oct. 1 at East Carolina University.
Published: Monday, October 6th, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Raleigh, NC – Governor Pat McCrory announced the state has awarded nearly $1 million in grants for 10 projects that will help North Carolina towns and counties restore streams, reduce erosion, study future water supplies and benefit other water resources.
Published: Friday, October 3rd, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources has ended a misleading advocacy campaign at the state's aquariums.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 6:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and Transportation Secretary Tony Tata are unveiling the Governor's 25-Year Vision for transportation in North Carolina today with a cross-state tour that includes stops in Wilmington, Greenville, Winston-Salem and Asheville to detail the challenges faced by and solutions...
Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 10:21 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The Durham gun owner registry may have been repealed during the short session of the General Assembly, but gun advocates remain uneasy about the fate of the personal (and public) records of those who registered firearms.
Published: Thursday, August 14th, 2014 @ 9:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gail Ambrose, technical services coordinator for the Learning Resources Center at Beaufort County Community College, has been chosen to head the BCCC Staff Association for the 2014-2015 Academic Year.
Published: Friday, July 11th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: Judy Jennette
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We've got a sloppy-fat, jheri-curled "preacher" and the Phish fan club banging pots and pans and hollering in the legislative building. We've got leftist groups bogging down McCrory administration agencies with document requests and lawsuits.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 9:23 am
By: Brant Clifton
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With the U.S. Women’s Open beginning this week, the state of North Carolina has developed a video presentation that highlights the coordinated efforts of several state agencies in preparation for the events.
Published: Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 @ 8:04 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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State recreational water quality officials today are alerting the public that initial testing at a sound-side site in Beaufort County showed levels of bacteria exceeding the state and Environmental Protection Agency's recreational water quality swimming standards.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory has announced that W. Neal Hanks Jr. has been appointed to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, the state government agency created by the General Assembly in 1947 to conserve and sustain the state's fish and wildlife resources through research, scient
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:36 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory was at the Outer Banks today to celebrate "Tourism Week" in North Carolina and to discuss the newest tourism statistics from the U.S. Travel Association.
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 2:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory yesterday unveiled his recommended budget adjustments for the 2014-15 fiscal year. The governor's plan would make changes to the second year of the two-year state budget plan passed last year.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 5:43 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Coping with continuing financial challenges crept into committee and board discussions during the April meeting of the East Carolina University Board of Trustees.
Published: Saturday, May 10th, 2014 @ 12:57 pm
By: ECU News Services
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A handful of documents changed the character of the United States. The 13th Amendment, formally ending legal slavery in this country, is one of them.
Published: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 12:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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