The theme of this year's issue of the award-winning North Carolina Literary Review is "North Carolina Literature in a Global Context." The print issue features cover art by Chapel Hill resident Eduardo Lapetina, a native of Argentina.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm
By: ECU News Services
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There are concerns that students who pursue careers in education represent the least capable of those students who pursue college degrees. As Thomas Sowell observed in Inside American Education, "Consistently, for decades, those college students who have majored in education have been among the...
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 8:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, stating that states cannot ban same-gender couples the right to marry in all 50 states.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:55 am
By: McCrory Communications
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There was a time when one's initiation into the fraternity of journalism included a profound indoctrination into the value of the First Amendment to the survival of our Republic.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few are surprised our legislature came up to the deadline to pass a new state budget and was forced to pass a continuing resolution. It’s a regular occurrence.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:44 am
By: Tom Campbell
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On June 17th, 2015, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a Fraud at a business on NC 33 Hwy E. in Blounts Creek.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you want to find an education issue where there seems to be universal agreement in North Carolina, talk about testing. Most everyone agrees we subject our kids to too much of it.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 9:42 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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For the second straight fiscal year, the North Carolina Medicaid program ended the year with cash on hand.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 8:24 am
By: Christopher Maye
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In a recent piece in the New York Times, University of Chicago law professor Tom Ginsburg urges us to "Stop Revering Magna Carta." Ginsburg tries to persuade us that our reverence is misplaced by pointing out that Magna Carta was neither "the first document of its type" nor "a ringing endorsement of
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 7:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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