Earlier in the week, outside of the Legislative Building, a joint announcement revealing farmland preservation funding around North Carolina's military bases was illuminated
Published: Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 @ 2:28 am
By: Bill Cook
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A repeatedly proven dysfunctional Department of Homeland Security DHS) is being given the complicated and controversial task of policing the nation's presidential and local elections, according to President Barack Obama and his Homeland Security secretary
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2016 @ 4:40 pm
By: Jim Kouri
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The 1,400-acre Greensboro-Randolph Megasite appears to be several years away from being a suitable location for the automotive plant or other large manufacturing facility it was designed to attract, based on conversations with government, business, and community officials
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2016 @ 11:47 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Founding Fathers might have been unable to create the foundations of a new American nation had they operated in today's climate of federal government harassment and intrusion into citizen privacy, a constitutional lawyer says
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 4:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) has defied an audit mandated by state law, what happens next?
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 11:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Republican legislative leaders, along with state GOP chairman Hasan Harnett and incoming party executive director Dallas Woodhouse, announced on Tuesday that new provisions in a law allowing legislative caucuses to establish separate fundraising committees would not be exercised during the...
Published: Sunday, October 4th, 2015 @ 8:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Common Core Standards is a private and federal initiative to reform public education into one that spits out workers, not thinkers
Published: Thursday, August 27th, 2015 @ 11:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Listen to members of the education establishment, and you will hear that not enough people are going to college. Listen to higher education reformers, particularly political conservatives, and you will hear that too many are going to college
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2015 @ 7:06 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I've got a newfound sense of respect for John Bell. We took it to him TWICE yesterday. Instead of ducking and running, or just badmouthing us in private, the Goldsboro Republican (and third-ranking House member) decided to go head-to-head with The Daily Haymaker.
Published: Sunday, April 12th, 2015 @ 2:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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America needs a better-educated work force - but President Obama's plan for "free" community college is not the way to get it.
Published: Wednesday, March 25th, 2015 @ 3:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 10:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The State Board of Elections today completed an audit of more than 10,000 registered voters with questionable citizenship status.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 2:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I got a private message over the weekend from a drive-by media personality who works for one of the better-known media outlets in the eastern part of North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014 @ 12:22 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Remarks made by an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court at a Democratic Party fund-raising dinner, as well as her membership in a private organization, raise serious questions about her possible bias against the state's new voter ID law.
Published: Friday, April 18th, 2014 @ 2:45 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Boy, how things change. One of the missions of the NAACP's founders was to protect the integrity of elections and people's right to vote.
Published: Saturday, January 4th, 2014 @ 1:47 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A battle over the North Carolina State Endowment Fund's right to sell its 123-square mile forest to an Illinois-based agribusiness firm appears to have ended. On Friday, a Wake County Superior Court judge ruled that the sale could proceed without an environmental impact statement, which a group...
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 10:22 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013 @ 7:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In a misnamed article, "Common Core is a conservative victory," Republican education reformers Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli used a recent News &Observer op-ed to try and persuade North Carolina conservatives to support the new national Common Core education standards.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 4:25 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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On checking the Boy Scouts of America Media Center for Press Releases at 9:10 pm Thursday the 23rd day of May their most recent release is about "Gone Fishing".
Published: Saturday, May 25th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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Common Core is an educational curriculum being forced upon the states by the Obama administration, which is scheduled to be mostly implemented this year in the 46 states that have adopted it.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2013 @ 5:18 am
By: Diane Rufino
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If you haven't already heard, the Boy Scouts of America's board will be meeting next week and one of the agenda items is to reconsider lifting the restriction on sexual orientation (including for leaders).
Published: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 @ 9:51 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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In DC, they are ignoring the guidelines laid out in The Constitution regarding legislative process. The Supreme Court has come up with creative dandies like "freedom of expression" as well as a "right to abortion."
Published: Saturday, January 5th, 2013 @ 2:16 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Government employee unions largely were responsible for the re-election of President Obama, and will seek payback through weaker right-to-work laws and approval of collective bargaining rights for 21 million health care workers under Obamacare, union critic Mallory Factor says.
Published: Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 @ 2:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We hear a lot of conversation these days about how America is losing (has already lost??) it's edge. We are no longer "exceptional". We even have a "ruler" who preaches those things and apologizes to foreign kings, satraps and the like for what he seems to view as our country's past transgressions.
Published: Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 @ 11:56 pm
By: Jim Bispo
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North Carolina is $37.6 billion short of the money it needs to pay its long-term bills, according to a June 25 report by the Institute for Truth in Accounting.
Published: Friday, July 13th, 2012 @ 8:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Developmentally disabled North Carolinians could slip through the cracks as mental health services across the state transition into a new health care delivery system.
Published: Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 @ 4:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the first time in decades, a trio of Republicans are seeking their party's nomination to this district's General Assembly seat in the state House.
Published: Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 @ 9:25 pm
By: Jeff Aydelette
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A subordinate of N.C. Commerce Department official Henry C. McKoy was serving as president of a nonprofit organization when, acting in her official capacity as a state employee, she applied for and received a $150,000 grant for the nonprofit from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.
Published: Friday, April 13th, 2012 @ 10:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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