Senator Bill Cook, NC General Assembly, NC Senate, District one, Republican majority
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 11:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) received a perfect score in the Freedom Index, a congressional scorecard based on 10 votes chosen by the editorial board of the conservative publication, The New American.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 11:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Controversy is arising over a cirriculum change to the AP American History class, claiming it is rewriting history; In this editorial, I will express my views on the issue.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 10:10 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Steve Lawler, president of Vidant Medical Center, announced his intention to retire from Vidant Health in two years. Lawler has served Vidant Health in various leadership roles for more than 20 years and has been president of Vidant Medical Center since 2007.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 10:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Converting the federal portion of North Carolina's Medicaid program into an annual block grant would go a long way toward limiting Medicaid's unpredictable annual cost overruns.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 5:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory signed legislation authorizing a $21.1 billion budget for North Carolina state government.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Until you have felt the sting of miscarried justice and been in a bad and filthy jail, you have no compassion for those in our County Jail right now! How many citizens have spent the night there and eaten the food to see what it really is???
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 4:49 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit arrested Quinton Baldwin, 37 years of age, of 82 Trails End South in Washington.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 4:31 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: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 1:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Funds from the federal government for college flow liberally, but there are limits.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 1:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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This legislative session has reminded me of watching my in-laws fight. It was loud, boisterous, impassioned, argumentative, at times totally unreasonable, accusatory, crazy, painful, and yet sometimes funny to watch predictable and surprising.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services continues the successful roll out of Crossroads, an IT system that is improving the way WIC benefits are delivered.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 9:46 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Mrs. Mary D. Laws Condry (formerly) of Washington NC , died Monday July 21, 2014 in Montgomery, AL.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:50 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Dennis Earl Fonville, 57, resident of 1610 Idalia Rd., Aurora died Sunday, August 3, 2014.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:45 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Brian Lamont Harris, age 79, of 318 Belann Circle, Washington, N.C. died Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at home.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:39 am
By: Announcements
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With a new school year around the corner, parents' thoughts turn to preparation.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:36 am
By: ECU News Services
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Mr. William Douglas Sawyer, Sr., age 75, a resident of 296 Higginsport Road, Belhaven, NC died Wednesday August 6, 2014 at his home.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:34 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that Art Pope will step down as state budget director.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:29 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Trains are notoriously hard to slow down even when we need them to.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 8:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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During the recently-completed GOP primary for US Senate, speaker Thom Tillis told a fundraiser crowd in Wilmington he favored the retention of state incentives for studios shooting movies and TV shows in North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 @ 12:50 am
By: Brant Clifton
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