N.C. House Republicans are voting this week on their 2015-17 biennial budget proposal. School-based personnel are among the big winners.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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BCCC's Travel/Study Group recently visited the Xunantunich ruins - containing the second tallest building in Belize - during their week-long trip to that country. They reached the ruins via a hand-cranked ferry. During their trip, the group also rode on a zip line, among other activities.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:33 pm
By: Chris Downey
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It is too much trouble to leave the beach and go to a boring ceremony or small parade with old men giving speeches and wearing the VFW insignia. Those ceremonies signify the real meaning of this Holiday.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:25 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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In the video clip below, being touted by the McCrory for Governor campaign, Governor Pat McCrory tells business leaders at the NC Chamber of Commerce that the way to keep North Carolina "moving forward" economically is to pass the North Carolina Competes legislation - basically an expansion of...
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Drawing on a variety of government and private data sources, this report presents a provisional analysis of college value-added with respect to the economic success of the college's graduates, measured by the incomes graduates earn, the occupations in which they work, and their loan repayment rates
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 9:07 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Today, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), visited Gaston County, North Carolina, where he spoke to military servicemembers, veterans and their families during a Memorial Day service.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 7:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The federal government spends more money each year than it collects in taxes and other revenue. That means annual spending deficits. Each deficit drives up the federal debt. Nick Dranias, president and executive director of the Compact for America Educational Foundation, has an interesting idea for
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 7:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory will be appearing on CBS News Sunday Morning on May 24, 2015 to discuss North Carolina's Veterans Treatment Courts.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 1:52 am
By: Chris Downey
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The end of the school year is in sight, which means that North Carolinians will be subjected to a slew of "take this job and shove it" missives from the state's public school teachers. As usual, the attention given to them will be overblown.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Homes are many things to many people: the repository of memories good and bad; the shelter that sustains us, shields us when we are laid bare; it is indeed a component at the core of our very being. The stories told within these many walls are numerous, frivolous, poignant and incredible.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 12:54 am
By: Liz Partrick
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Whether U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan's keynote address at N.C. Central University's 125th commencement ceremony illustrated what is wrong with the liberal stranglehold on higher education, or properly embraces an emerging social paradigm, likely depends on your own politics.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Make your plans now for Monday, May 25th, 2015
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 12:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mrs. Mary Bell Chatmon Crawford, 93, a resident of Ridgewood Manor nursing home and formerly of 1979 Maule's Point Road, Blounts Creek, died Thursday, May 21, 2015.
Published: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 12:01 am
By: Announcements
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