As the situation in Charlotte subsides, attention is now focused on Mayor Roberts' bumbling and bizarre performance.
Published: Tuesday, September 27th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: Russell Allen
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On 8-18-2016, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested, Jamale Antwan Stilley, 33 years of age, of 18980 Hwy. 33 East in Edward
Published: Sunday, August 21st, 2016 @ 9:12 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Budget writers working on the state's 2016-17 spending plan received the OK to increase the amount of money to open new psychiatric beds around the state from $12 million to $18 million, using proceeds from the sale of the Dorothea Dix campus in Raleigh, while eliminating a controversial regulation.
Published: Saturday, June 25th, 2016 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory joined law enforcement officers, first responders, legislators and health care officials today at the Guilford County Sheriff's Office to sign legislation making naloxone, a life-saving opioid reversal drug that has already saved 3,300 North Carolinians, more accessible
Published: Monday, June 20th, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Continuing his administration's commitment to take on North Carolina's toughest mental health and substance abuse challenges, Governor McCrory has accepted recommendations from two key task forces set up to develop new strategies for addressing mental health, substance abuse and underage drinking.
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2016 @ 5:24 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory received recommendations from the Governor's Substance Abuse and Underage Drinking Prevention and Treatment Task Force today presented by Task Force co-chairman and ABC Commission Chairman Jim Gardner. In attendance were task force members and representatives from the ABC...
Published: Friday, May 27th, 2016 @ 2:09 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory welcomed recommendations from the Governor's Task Force on Mental Health and Substance Use today in a Drug Treatment Court in Fayetteville. North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Rick Brajer, along with...
Published: Tuesday, May 24th, 2016 @ 11:59 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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On 04-29-2016, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Dustin Shane Upton, 35 years of age, of 1458 Ivy Street in Denver Colorado and Dale Roger Upton, 64 years of age, of 220 Hudnell Street in Washington.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 @ 12:22 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Surrounded by families, children, first responders, advocates and care providers, Governor Pat McCrory unveiled his budget priorities to further promote a healthy North Carolina. The governor's budget proposal will expand services to strengthen families and support North Carolina's most...
Published: Thursday, April 14th, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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We are supposed to feel sorry for the poor, benighted people of Colorado, Florida, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2016 @ 4:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The "good" news is that, in this year's Super Bowl battle over which team fleeces its home city's taxpayers the least, Broncos or the Panthers, the winner is the Panthers by a pretty wide margin. According to this article by the Manhattan Institute's Jared Meyer (originally published in Forbes)...
Published: Tuesday, March 15th, 2016 @ 2:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory's Task Force on Mental Health and Substance Use provided a legislative committee with an update of its work to improve mental/behavioral health services in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2016 @ 8:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Researchers from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill presented their report on the effects of alcohol on the brains of young people to the Governor's Substance Abuse and Underage Drinking Prevention and Treatment Task Force today. Governor Pat McCrory requested the report in December.
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 10:47 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted to override President Obama's veto of the Obamacare repeal the House passed last month and the Senate passed in December. The bill struck at the heart of Obamacare by repealing the employer mandates, the Medicaid expansion, the medical device...
Published: Saturday, February 6th, 2016 @ 10:36 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded a grant to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to plan the establishment of a network of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 7:28 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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On 1-21-2016, investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit and Probation Officers with NC Department of Public Safety arrested Bobby Lee Moore, 36 years of age, 21073 Hwy. 33 East in Aurora.
Published: Tuesday, January 26th, 2016 @ 12:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For decades, energy costs have been manipulated by state government subsidies. Just like other subsidies, whether for the film industry, automobile manufacturers, or even specific companies, special treatments transfer the tax burden from the recipients of the subsidies to others, creating unfair...
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 4:03 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A novel justification for governments heavily subsidizing otherwise unsustainable, expensive, inefficient renewable energy is to argue that all energy sources get subsidies. The general assertion is true as far as that goes. Still, the argument is often used as a variant of...
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 11:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After serving active duty in several conflicts, graduate psychologist Kevin Woodrow now works with fellow veterans struggling with mental health issues. He will receive his doctoral degree in clinical health psychology from ECU on Dec. 18.
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:44 am
By: ECU News Services
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Since the World War II era, workers have benefited from a rather large implicit tax subsidy on health coverage provided by their employers. Every dollar an employee spends from earned income is taxed, but every dollar spent on health care is not. Those who purchase health plans on their own lose...
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 9:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For those of us who have been fighting to eliminate solar and other renewable energy subsidies from the burden being born by North Carolina's taxpayers, the new state budget is very welcome. As of January 1, the 35 percent tax credit for renewables in general and solar in particular, by far the...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today is International Overdose Awareness Day, a time to call attention to a major cause of accidental death in the United States. Each day, at least two people in North Carolina die from unintentional opiate overdose with more than 800 opiate overdose-related deaths reported in 2014.
Published: Tuesday, September 1st, 2015 @ 12:20 am
By: McCrory Communications
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the membership of The Governor's Task Force on Mental Health and Substance Use today
Published: Sunday, August 30th, 2015 @ 12:51 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor McCrory has announced that, as part of his "all-of-the-above" energy strategy (whatever that means), North Carolina will be getting its first industrial size wind-farm, part of a partnership between Amazon and a wind power company called Iberdrola. Of course, probably the most important...
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 4:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One day, Bill Bennett may be best remembered for saying (in 1987, while he was President Reagan's education secretary) that government student aid was largely responsible for the fact that the cost of going to college kept rising. What is called the "Bennett Hypothesis" has been heavily debated
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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New research from the Institute for Energy Research shows more than ever before how the Obama administration's approach to energy policy is fulfilling the president's 2008 vision of "necessarily skyrocket[ing]" electricity rates.
Published: Sunday, July 19th, 2015 @ 7:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than 2,500 patients across the state may be diverted each year from hospital emergency departments to behavioral health crisis centers with help from $5,000 grants awarded to each of 11 counties
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 5:38 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Governor Pat McCrory established today the North Carolina Mental Health and Substance Use Task Force, a panel that will bring together the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 @ 6:40 am
By: McCrory Communications
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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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One in four Americans suffers from a mental health condition. Behavioral health, or mental health, is a term used to refer to fields related to the study, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness and substance abuse.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 4:50 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Life in a 55 and up community
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 8:57 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Some seventh-grade students in Martin and Pitt counties have found even the tiniest of creatures can become addicted to sugar and caffeine - and energy drinks can be lethal.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2015 @ 1:37 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today...
Published: Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 @ 4:05 am
By: Chris Downey
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