Eastern North Carolina has lots of history, beautiful nature, and different cultures. There are cute towns by the coast and lively cities. Anyone visiting can find lots of interesting things to see and do in this pretty part of...
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 11:48 am
By: Francesca
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He's "potentially dangerous," POLITICO says.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 12:18 am
By: Daily Wire
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The city of Atlanta is entering its second week of violent, fiery riots that have been organized and executed by just an idea.
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 @ 10:37 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Recently, Golden LEAF President, Chief Executive Officer Scott T. Hamilton sat down with Thom Ruhe, President, Chief Executive Officer of the NC IDEA, via Zoom and filmed the nineteenth edition in a video series called Critical Conversations
Published: Monday, November 14th, 2022 @ 11:24 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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North Carolina is home to a number of funding institutions supporting strategies necessary for economic growth.
Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2022 @ 12:30 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Yesterday kicked off the new two-year state legislative session, and many politicos have stars in their eyes at the possibilities inherent with the new beginning.
Published: Monday, January 18th, 2021 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Baseball fans learn early how to read the most important part of a box score. It’s a skill some N.C. electoral reformers have yet to master.
Published: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 @ 6:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In politics, at some point, you have to have ideas that appeal to the voting public.
Published: Monday, November 9th, 2020 @ 10:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will state the truth in full, without apology: We declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional Nation ever to exist on Earth.
Published: Thursday, November 5th, 2020 @ 12:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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David Harsanyi writes at National Review Online that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is underperforming his 2016 predecessor.
Published: Monday, October 26th, 2020 @ 12:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Angela Rachidi of the American Enterprise Institute offers ideas for Congress to consider in the COVID-19 relief debate.
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2020 @ 10:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We often don’t think of Calvin Coolidge when we think of the greatest American speeches of all time.
Published: Wednesday, June 24th, 2020 @ 2:38 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Greenville Area Pitch Competition provides an open venue to pitch your business idea for cash prizes, and network with other entrepreneurs and resources.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 9:50 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Inventor Diversity for Economic Advancement (IDEA) Act of 2019 would close these gaps by directing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to collect demographic data from patent applicants on a voluntary basis.
Published: Friday, July 26th, 2019 @ 2:03 pm
By: Thom Tillis
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In 1886, Sir Edward Clarke delivered a speech in the U.K. House of Commons and in polite way of insulting someone, he said: "The mind was indeed so open that it had nothing in it at all."
Published: Thursday, December 14th, 2017 @ 10:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Sabe Wilis explores a concept in Trials of Ambiguity, as well as its real-life parallel in this abstract op-ed
Published: Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 @ 9:28 am
By: Sabe Wilis
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The science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells once observed that "human history is, in essence, a history of ideas."
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 10:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Try something new? I'm all for it. But whether you are talking about changing your diet, changing your career, or changing your government's public policy, it's often a good idea to proceed in stages.
Published: Monday, August 15th, 2016 @ 3:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory was at Dixon Elementary School this morning to congratulate teachers on receiving grants as part of the Bright Ideas program of the Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation (EMC), one of North Carolina's electric cooperatives.
Published: Thursday, January 28th, 2016 @ 11:24 am
By: McCrory Communications
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A thought occurred to me as I was traveling in and around the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. The notion didn't have to do with my location but was instead prompted by the lecture I was listening to on the way.
Published: Thursday, June 4th, 2015 @ 12:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Throughout the month of March, in recognition of National Nutrition Month, the East Carolina University Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center and Pitt Partners for Health are offering free grocery store tours aimed at teaching community members how to eat healthy on a limited...
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 2:28 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina will lead a National Innovation Community, a coalition of 25 states and counting that will collaborate to bring innovative ideas and practices to government technology. The Community was established as a resource for technology leaders...
Published: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 1:44 pm
By: Chris Downey
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True Conservatives understand why our country is falling apart. It's not that we lack the power and the ability to be the country we used to be; it's that our citizenry has willfully and ignorantly abandoned a moral imperative to defend our American ideals by living those ideals.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 10:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Too often, American college students face a one-question test, one based not on facts, but on ideology. The test: "Are you a liberal, or conservative?"
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Ideal Fastener Corporation will be expanding its facility in Granville County.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 4:29 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Your letter to Lucille is interesting. She, like my sister, is suffering from "being tied up in nots" = thou shalt not do this and that! She takes great pride in the Dean's List, but was driven to perfection by our Baby Boom ideals and religion of the South.
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 9:30 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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There has been tremendous buzz about online higher education in recent years, both from insiders and reformers. Much of it is deserved - obviously, there's a lot of new technology out there with great potential for teaching and learning. But there is also a lot of confusion.
Published: Tuesday, December 24th, 2013 @ 1:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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That's the money quote straight from Congressman Bob Pittenger's big mouth during his do-over town hall in Matthews last night. Not much better than the first go around.
Published: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A Sunshine Week meeting to discuss a proposed new law making a violation of the state's open government laws found some senators not too keen on the idea.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 7:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While North Carolina's elected leaders prepare to tackle tax reform, the John Locke Foundation's new book urges them to take on the related issue of government overspending through a state Taxpayer Bill of Rights.
Published: Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 @ 9:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Change is inevitable; whether it will come from deliberate policy changes or as an inevitable collapse remains to be seen.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 12:08 am
By: Jay Schalin
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It's been weeks since children developed their wish lists, and they are about to find out if Santa has brought what they asked for. We here at the Pope Center have put together our own wish list...
Published: Friday, February 22nd, 2013 @ 7:09 am
By: Duke Cheston
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As you may know, the John Locke Foundation has just published a new book - First in Freedom: Transforming Ideas into Consequences for North Carolina - that proposes a new tax system for our state.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 5:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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