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A new study from the Heritage Foundation finds that states with expansive school choice have lower private-school tuition rate increases than states without school choice.
Published: Tuesday, October 31st, 2023 @ 5:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU faculty awarded grant to research link between workaholism, Type 2 diabetes
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 1:26 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Sam Wang's Statistical Analysis Led to a Court's Rejection of the General Assembly's Remedial Congressional Map
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 7:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has issued a temporary stay in a case dealing with felon voting in North Carolina. The stay blocks any felons from registering to vote until appeals in the case are resolved.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2022 @ 12:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Winners of a recent trial court ruling on voting rights for felons want the N.C. Supreme Court to take up the case. The ruling could affect 56,000 felons who have completed active prison time.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A three-judge Superior Court panel has ruled, 2-1, that felons who have completed their prison sentences in North Carolina must be permitted to vote.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments and nominations to North Carolina boards and commissions.
Published: Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 @ 2:46 am
By: Governor's Office
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In North Carolina and across the country, Americans have coalesced into two angry factions based on how they feel about statewide lockdown orders like the one that Gov. Roy Cooper imposed on North Carolinians last month.
Published: Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 @ 5:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent News & Observer editorial on redistricting claimed that “the numbers (of districts likely to be won by either Republicans or Democrats) are irrelevant if the redistricting process remains — as it has — purely partisan.”
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 4:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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X-Labs is a cross-disciplinary project aimed at changing the way scientific experimentation is introduced to students in lab courses in chemistry, biology and physics.
Published: Wednesday, December 18th, 2019 @ 4:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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As a three-judge panel heard a second week of testimony in Common Cause v. Lewis, defense attorneys and witnesses tried to cast doubt on the ability of statistical analysis to predict how North Carolinians would vote in legislative elections.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If energy companies respond to the Interior Department's recently announced process for pursuing oil and gas exploration off the North Carolina coast, it is likely that residents or visitors will never see any rigs, pipelines, or depots, as these facilities are located either far offshore
Published: Thursday, January 18th, 2018 @ 12:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two years ago, East Carolina University psychiatrist Vivek Anand documented adolescent use of and opinions on electronic cigarettes
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 9:59 pm
By: ECU News Services
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What if a product could save lives and millions in health-care costs?
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2017 @ 9:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The city of Charlotte really wants to build a streetcar line. Queen City taxpayers probably will have to dig a bit deeper to pay for it, though, as construction bids have come in over 30 percent above projections.
Published: Wednesday, December 28th, 2016 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Free enterprise plays a critical role in improving our lives, but a lot of people know very little about why or how. Dr. Peter Frank, dean and associate professor of economics at the Porter B. Byrum School of Business at Wingate University and free enterprise fellow at the Jesse Helms Center
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2016 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In his response to the recent shootings at Umpqua Community College, President Obama made an impassioned plea for more gun control...
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2015 @ 10:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction released student performance data for all schools and school districts in the state. The release included school performance grades, end-of-course and end-of-grade achievement level results, school accountability growth data, the 4-year and...
Published: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015 @ 3:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Several of my recent columns have addressed the statistical basis of political disputes over education funding, the state budget, and declines in North Carolina’s unemployment rate.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I'm told that while there is no firmly established gift tradition for a 28th anniversary, the modern practice is to signify the event with an orchid.
Published: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Studies conducted at East Carolina University have shown a way to predict which heart surgery patients may have a common postoperative complication as well as a way to treat those patients ahead of time to prevent it.
Published: Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 @ 1:18 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It happens at the end of every semester. As final grades are computed and entered, faculty all across the United States hear those inner demons talking. Some expound quite loudly; others merely whisper.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 11:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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On an ordinary Monday morning in a graduate industrial engineering class at North Carolina State University, one would expect to hear talk about statistical analysis, linear programming, or maybe the outcome of the previous weekend's football game. In reality, it is nearly impossible to discern...
Published: Sunday, December 22nd, 2013 @ 2:54 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As the dust settles on the landmark 2013 North Carolina legislative session, conservatives can look upon the accomplishments of the state legislature and find much to celebrate.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 8:05 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Representative Paul Tine along with Representatives Hamilton (D - New Hanover), Iler (R - Brunswick), and Dockham (R - Davidson) submitted House Bill 519 Property Insurance Rate Making Reform this week.
Published: Sunday, April 7th, 2013 @ 12:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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America always has had richer and poorer people. In the past, they were different primarily in the amount of money they had.
Published: Saturday, January 5th, 2013 @ 1:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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