Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla III and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) announced today that National Spinning Co., Inc. will be expanding its facilities in North Carolina and creating 50 new jobs over the next three years. The company...
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 @ 11:39 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Parents of students who are relying on Opportunity Scholarship vouchers to offset the cost of private school tuition are facing their second summer in a row of uncertainty.
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sometimes it is just the will and the heart that makes a champion
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 @ 4:17 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Vidant Health and the Veterans Administration (VA) are working together to share health information on veterans treated at Vidant Health facilities. The VA's Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) Health Exchange program gives VA and non-VA health care providers secure access to certain parts of
Published: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory, N.C. Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla III and the Economic Development Partnership of N.C. announced today that White Oak Carpet Mills, LLC, a division of CAP Carpet, Inc. based in Wichita, Kansas is expanding its operations in Rutherford County
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 11:12 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Despite widespread vocal opposition from area business leaders and residents, Gov. Pat McCrory and North Carolina Department of Transportation officials maintain it is too late for the state to scrap the controversial 26-mile Interstate 77 tolling project between Charlotte and Mooresville in favor o
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On 6-16-2015, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit served arrest warrants on Judy Satterthwaite Bryant, 67 years of age, of 15 Trails End North in Washington.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I watched the CNN special on Glen Campbell, “I’ll just be Me” last night.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:51 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Last week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced, “The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act.” This legislation is vital to restoring justice to the victims of this heinous government run program.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that North Carolina will receive more than $23 million to expand Wi-Fi access to K-12 classrooms throughout the state, bringing the total funding for this initiative to nearly $40 million.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 7:05 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Maybe we need to read history before we start changing it.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 6:50 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision that had allowed the American Civil Liberties Union to censor North Carolina’s “Choose Life” message, which the state legislature voted to make available on a specialty license plate.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 4:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On 6-25-2015, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Lavar Dewen Mitchell, 38 years of age, of 649 Pine Street in Belhaven.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 3:24 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 29th, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1973, we discovered — thanks to The Supreme Court — that we have a “right” to abortion. In the last week, we’ve learned that we have a “right” to subsidized health care and a “right” to same-sex marriage.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 3:02 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One does not examine Beaufort County Cartel Politics without stumbling head long into ethics.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:57 am
By: Hood Richardson
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A poet and writer of many short stories, including the ones using the "Flim Flam Yarn" title, Guy Owen was launched into fame with comical and popular The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory broke ground today on Sealed Air's new global headquarters in Charlotte. Sealed Air is a Fortune 500 company and global manufacturer of protective and specialty packaging for food and consumer goods.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 11:06 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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It’s no secret there’s no love between the speaker and Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC). Jones voted against Boehner for renomination as speaker.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 11:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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When the framers of our state’s Constitution were assigning duties and responsibilities to the various branches of government they wisely delegated to the voters decision-making responsibility for should government incurring debt.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 10:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Mr. Jessie "Bill" Whitley, age 90, a resident of Washington, NC died Sunday June 28, 2015 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 10:40 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Freddie Lee Elks, age 68, a resident of 2418 Chandler Road, the Wilmar Community of Vanceboro, NC, completed his long journey home on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 10:29 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Elizabeth M. Alert, age 61, a resident of 223 Nellie Ct., Washington, NC died Saturday June 27, 2015 at her home.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 10:22 pm
By: Announcements
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Have you ever tried to get a straight answer from a politician?
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 4:11 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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A wave of support for Governor Pat McCrory's Connect NC bond proposal has swept the Piedmont
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 3:47 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Community College President R. Scott Ralls and Catawba Valley Community College President Garret Hinshaw touted Governor Pat McCrory's Connect NC bond proposal in yesterday's Charlotte Observer.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 6:50 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Since the 1960s, the academic history profession has changed markedly. Traditional fields such as military history, diplomatic history, intellectual history, religious history, and political history have been deemphasized, when not completely eliminated.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 6:35 am
By: John William Pope Center
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No one in authority has said why both houses of our legislature mysteriously, rapidly and overwhelmingly passed modifications to their 2013 election law changes or why Governor McCrory just as unceremoniously signed them into law.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 2:57 am
By: Tom Campbell
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For those of you who may not be familiar with this Ripon crowd, they were founded to counter the rise of the Goldwater / Reagan people in the GOP and to return the party to the grand old days of Nelson Rockefeller and Teddy Roosevelt.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 2:47 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its ruling in King v. Burwell. The court ruled in favor of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, upholding the legality of the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 11:58 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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I have been reminded of an old book from the 1950's when prejudice and hate were in full spring in the United States. I read his theories of personality at Emory in my Psychology Major studies.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 11:56 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I was aboard the USS Enterprise in 1969 when another disaster occurred. I say another because almost weekly something would happen.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 10:15 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Goose Creek State Park Calendar of Events for July, August, September, 2015
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 9:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Friends of State Parks is the latest organization to pass a resolution expressing official support for Governor Pat McCrory's Connect NC bond proposal.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 8:02 am
By: McCrory Communications
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