A controversial Oct. 15 resolution passed by the national board of the NAACP calling for a nationwide moratorium on public charter schools has led some North Carolina lawmakers and school-choice advocates to question whether the NAACP is more beholden to powerful lobbies
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 9:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What do the $15 minimum wage, Obamacare, and proposed gun control laws all have in common? Of course, we could say, uncontroversially, that they are all policies supported by progressives and at least in part form the backbone of modern day progressivism's policy agenda
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If I could predict the onset of America's next recession with precision, I wouldn't tell you about it. I'd become a money manager and make a pile of it by timing the market
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 6:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State health officials encourage North Carolinians to take health and safety precautions during the winter months
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 6:27 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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Mr. Thomas Bragg Chrismon, age 79, a resident of 811 River Rd., Washington, died Sunday December 25, 2016 at his home.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:50 pm
By: Announcements
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Lt. Col. Edwin E. Robbins, U.S. Army-Ret., age 83, a resident of 661 East Water Street, Belhaven, died at his home, Friday, December 23, 2016. Born in Washington, NC., he was known locally as "June Bug."
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:45 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Margie Woolard Stevens, age 57, a resident of 218 Woolard Lane, Washington, died Friday December 23, 2016 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:40 pm
By: Announcements
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Susan Louise Constantine Lemay, age 68, a resident of Hudnell Street, Washington, died Thursday, December 22, 2016 at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:33 pm
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Alberta Boyd Hodges, aged 98, was a resident of Arapahoe, NC and passed away at Grantsbrook Nursing Center on Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 4:28 pm
By: Announcements
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The ability to succeed in higher education - as defined by college readiness - has been one of the stated goals of the State Board of Education for every student in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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During the period of apartheid in South Africa, all-white labor unions representing workers in the diamond mines were able to have put in place minimum wage laws for diamond mine workers
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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