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Last week's newsletter highlighted the fiscal impact on North Carolina if the legislature agreed to opt for Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. This week, I'll touch on three critical human costs...
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The death of a very successful chain due to too much leverage and a sister brand that failed to keep up with the changing times.
Published: Tuesday, February 16th, 2016 @ 2:30 am
By: Bobby Tony
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How do North Carolinians feel about their schools and how their children are educated? The November Civitas Poll provided plenty of good information about those topics.
Published: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 4:38 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I am a community college failure. Or perhaps I should say, I helped fail one community college. Decades ago, after receiving my bachelor's degree, I enrolled in a few community college math and statistics classes to prepare for graduate school. Had I not taken those classes, I doubt that I would hav
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina has been talking for years about fixing failing schools, but so far it is mostly talk.
Published: Saturday, September 5th, 2015 @ 10:14 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The East Carolina Heart Institute (ECHI) at Vidant Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines - Heart Failure Gold Plus Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that the East Carolina Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center has reached an...
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 11:59 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Many people choose not to vote. Laws that benefit only limited special interests are incredibly hard to kill. Government tends to grow, even when voters elect officials who promise fiscal restraint.
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2014 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The great American ethic is that money will buy anything. It is particularly true in the political world. We try to buy everything from international friendship to better schools to votes to taxpayer support for some behavior that politicians believe we should embrace.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 11:47 am
By: Jim Bispo
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On June 26, 2013 at approximately 9:30 am, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a Registered Sex Offender that had failed to respond to an address verification request by the State.
Published: Wednesday, August 7th, 2013 @ 10:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The East Carolina Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center receives American Heart Association AwardThe East Carolina Heart Institute at Vidant Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines® -Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 9:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Charlotte Mayor Redd Foxx is movin' on up -- just like The Jeffersons and The Clampetts.
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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An effort to allow auto insurance companies to set their own rates collided with opponents on Tuesday as the bill failed to muster enough votes to get out of committee.
Published: Thursday, April 18th, 2013 @ 1:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the New York Times finds a case of what economists call market failure, you can expect that its reporters will investigate it to the core. But when it stumbles across a clear case of government failure, expect at best a superficial and myopic investigation.
Published: Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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A stint as a prosecutor in a South Carolina county ended up earning Eric Rowell a notice of failure to file a North Carolina income tax return for 2008. Rowell neither lived nor worked in North Carolina that year.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 4:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Allen Stanford married the love of his life, Karen, on Sept. 9, 2012. Stanford is 78 years old and has been in and out of hospitals since the early 1990s with heart disease, including heart failure.
Published: Friday, October 12th, 2012 @ 9:32 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Investigator Jim Adams applied for and obtained a warrant charging Tony James Little, AKA- James Antonio Little, age 43, of West 11th Street in Washington, NC with Failure to Register Change of Address by a Sex Offender.
Published: Friday, August 3rd, 2012 @ 12:49 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The loss was huge, his effort was great: And just what will President Barack Obama do now to regain the essential momentum to retake the campaign trail and secure his re-election?
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2011 @ 11:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On May 2, Lieutenant Jamie Cahoon obtained a warrant charging Clarence K. Thigpen, of Tranters Creek Drive in Washington, with one count of Failure to Register Change of Address as a Sex Offender.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2011 @ 4:47 pm
By: BCN
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Of the two counts for Failing to Register, one was for failing to register his place of residence in Beaufort County and one for failing to notify Beaufort County that he was attending BCCC.
Published: Thursday, February 24th, 2011 @ 7:03 pm
By: BCN
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On Jan. 14., Steven Jay Almond was arrested by the Washington Police Department. Almond was brought before Magistrate Sadler and held in the Beaufort County Detention Center on a $1,200 secured bond.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 @ 2:51 pm
By: BCN
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Crime Stoppers will pay up to a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Steven Jay Almond, age 30, formerly of the Zion Shelter in Washington.
Published: Sunday, January 16th, 2011 @ 6:48 pm
By: BCN
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Terrance Moore was arrested by the Pitt Co. Sheriff's Office on Nov. 30, and is currently being held in their Detention Center under a $65,000 secured bond for this and other charges.
Published: Saturday, December 11th, 2010 @ 1:52 pm
By: BCN
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