If you like your teacher tenure plan, you can keep your teacher tenure plan, Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, told educators at a Wednesday press conference. Just don't expect a pay raise.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 6:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement upon signing House Bill 1050.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 6:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Franklin Jordan “Frankie” Bowen, age 68, a resident of 24749 NC Hwy 32 N. Plymouth, NC died Monday May 26, 2014.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
By: Announcements
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Ginger Shannon (Hodges) Finney, 74 of Seven Lakes, passed on Friday May 16, 2014 at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
By: Announcements
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BCCC's Travel/Study group has recently returned from its visit to London and Paris this month. Besides visiting the usual sights, they sampled fish and chips in a London pub and ate duck breast in a 13th Century cellar restaurant in Paris.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 3:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a free society, the right to express one's political views without governmental restraint or reprisal ought to be sacrosanct. Unfortunately, it isn't. Some politicians and political activists seem to believe that, because of a sense of moral superiority, they have the right not just to express...
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) voted against legislation that would allow the federal government to continue violating the privacy of American citizens through unnecessary spying.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 3:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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College of The Albemarle in Elizabeth City will present the musical, Joseph, the Dreamer, as its final production of the 2013/14 Performing Arts Center season.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 12:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory has issued the following statement following the passing of Dr. Maya Angelou today at her home in Winston-Salem.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:23 am
By: Christopher Maye
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F.H. Buckley, a law professor at George Mason University, recently has published a timely and comparative study: The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America. In it, Buckley compares and examines past and current political systems in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The incident was one for the history books. In April, Brandeis University, a school created after the Holocaust for Jews who faced bias at Ivy League schools, rescinded its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to be a commencement speaker. Hirsi Ali is an activist for fair treatment of women around the...
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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It's graduation season. Public and private schools across the country are turning out freshly-indoctrinated young people into the workforce.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:16 am
By: Brant Clifton
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An organization representing 55,000 state employees has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate "widespread potential violations of law" involving State Treasurer Janet Cowell's handling of investments from the $87 billion state retirement system.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The changing definition of literacy and the constant evolution of teaching methods were major topics at the first-ever Interdisciplinary Literacy Summit, held May 21 at East Carolina University.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:15 am
By: ECU News Services
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Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) attended a press conference on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, that announced a proposal to allocate an average of 11.2 percent permanent pay raise for North Carolina public school teachers.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The price of sound tax policy is eternal vigilance, and a year after the N.C. General Assembly implemented a tax reform plan based on sound principles of taxation and economics, it is threatening to begin the process of unraveling these reforms with a new excise tax on e-cigarettes.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 Washington Police arrested Topeka Cox Hopkins, age 38, of West 6th street.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For a growing number of cities and municipalities, when fiscal times get tough, the tough go...to the market. Take recently cited examples from Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas, Nassau County NY, and Pittsburgh PA. All are looking for new angles to increase local revenues. They are looking...
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and First Lady Ann McCrory hosted a group of women graduating from the Durham Rescue Mission's recovery program at the governor's mansion today.
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:09 am
By: Christopher Maye
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