An East Carolina University researcher has been awarded a $300,000 grant to study a cellular protein long overlooked by scientists.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 7:42 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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NCTracks will achieve its first service anniversary on July 1 as the single system for processing claims and payments for Medicaid and other N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) programs.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 7:32 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Almost every day we hear the Anointed One making some grand pronouncement about something or other. Invariably he is "backed up" by folks who would seem to be from the constituency he seems to be romancing that particular day.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 4:01 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 3:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 2:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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East Carolina University's College of Nursing continues to produce the most registered nurses in North Carolina and its graduates pass the state nursing exam at a rate above the state average, according to data in a report prepared for the UNC Board of Governors.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 12:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Political pundits across the nation are watching closely this year as North Carolinians prepare to head to the polls to decide whether first-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan will keep her job.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 12:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this case, we hate being right. Some time back, we posted about efforts in the NCGOP platform drafting committee to remove a lot of the issues important to Tea Party activists.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 12:07 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Irrespective of Mr. Obama's circling of the wagons under his latest crisis of leadership - the atrocious mismanagement of the V.A. - claiming that there must be an exhaustive investigation, there is a systemic problem.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 11:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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William Henry "Bill" Shoemaker, age 78, a resident of Harvey Rd., Washington, NC, went to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Sunday, June 29, 2014 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 10:10 am
By: Announcements
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Talk about split personalities, undefined goals, and confusing the information. You may be surprised to know what the real motives are behind the players. What looks like a mermaid is really an octopus.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 10:08 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Mr. Don Carson Alligood, age 71, a resident of 822 Ross Rd., Bath, NC died Saturday June 28, 2014 at Vidant Medical Center of Greenville.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:46 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Mrs. Ruth May Hathaway Herron, age 93, a resident of Washington, died Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Center.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:31 am
By: Announcements
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Durham County officials are awaiting a ruling from the state on what to do with tens of thousands of gun owners’ personal information now that the county’s Jim Crow-era gun registry has been repealed in a “very large” legislative victory.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We are all familiar with famous huge errors in economics, such as those of Karl Marx, errors that ultimately create vast human suffering.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:19 am
By: John William Pope Center
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As the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) holds its "School's Out" rally, the Civitas Institute puts the spotlight on the gulf between teacher's salaries and NCAE executives' salaries.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 9:06 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Once again, Lee Chevrolet is sponsoring a fun-filled day on the waterfront for July 4th celebration culminating with the City of Washington's Firework display.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 8:47 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I know you've been there. It's time for supper and you have neither the time nor the supplies to cook. So you and your family members or friends all pile in to the car to head out to a restaurant.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Whether you turn first toward the family, friends, government, nonprofit groups, or business to solve society’s largest problems, you might find some interest in the latest work from William Eggers.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 8:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Vidant thought their "problem child" would go away quietly, never to be seen or heard from again, that was not the case last week in Hyde County, nor will it be next year.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 5:23 pm
By: Betty Murphy
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House Speaker Thom Tillis and Gov. Pat McCrory had a big media event yesterday. They were touting the idea of separating education from the rest of the budget and passing the education part FIRST.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 3:16 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A memorial service for Lula Angela Credle of 226 E. 3rd St., Washington will be held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at LR Randolph Funeral Home Chapel, 208 W. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Washington.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 3:11 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Charles Lee Toler, Jr. age 68, a resident of New Bern, NC died Saturday June 28, 2014 at Carolina East Medical Center of New Bern.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 2:50 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Earl R. Jordan, age 71 a resident of Washington, NC died Saturday June 28, 2014 at his home.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 2:41 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Effie Mae Cooper McNall, age 69, a resident of Pantego, NC died Friday June 27, 2014 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice of Greenville.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 2:20 pm
By: Announcements
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Doris Hodges Stocks, age 80, a resident of Rosedale, Washington, NC, passed away Monday, June 23, 2014 at her home.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 1:58 pm
By: Announcements
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North Carolina state budget writers would have more flexibility to fund teacher pay raises, address Medicaid cost overruns, create jobs, and generate a surplus, if they adopt a budget technique identified in a new John Locke Foundation Spotlight report.
Published: Sunday, June 29th, 2014 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With $2 billion in cost overruns the past four years, Medicaid continues to be North Carolina’s most volatile political conundrum, and now unanswered questions about its spending and growth threaten to delay passage of 2014-15 state budget adjustments before next Monday’s deadline.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's Civitas Institute does our state's preeminent rating of the legislature, analyzing the key bills and then looking at the voting records of each legislator on those bills as to whether they are liberal or conservative.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 8:21 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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The Ormond Amphitheatre is opening its doors to once again host The Promised Land - the epic true tale of a North Carolina family whose search for freedom spans generations and miles - from fighting in the Revolutionary War to traveling across America in the pursuit of religious freedom.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:34 am
By: Chris Downey
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Twenty-five middle and high school students from Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Northampton and Wilson counties took a field trip to East Carolina University on June 18 as part of their week-long math and science camp.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:30 am
By: ECU News Services
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As promised, I shall provide an update, but there is no news at this point other than for me to state, or re-state what is obvious as to the state of the county's financial health.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week's Bad Bill of the Week involves state legislators trying yet again to interject themselves into the voluntary association between employee and employer.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 12:14 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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