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Louisiana State Treasurer John Schroder announced on Wednesday that the Pelican State would divest nearly $800 million in funds from asset management company BlackRock.
Published: Monday, November 7th, 2022 @ 7:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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Former President Bill Clinton and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink discussed the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) movement during a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 12:30 am
By: Daily Wire
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financial firm puts ''woke'' ESG political agenda ahead of fiduciary duties
Published: Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 @ 6:50 pm
By: John Steed
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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C., (October 6, 2022) – Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $443,000 in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program.
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2022 @ 1:18 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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follows West Virginia and Texas in removing all state funds
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2022 @ 11:02 am
By: John Steed
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Asset management company BlackRock contends that the Federal Reserve is not effectively maintaining a balance between reducing inflation and avoiding a downturn amid widespread pressure to control higher prices.
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 12:36 am
By: Daily Wire
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Chris Rock reportedly made it crystal clear that he has no interest in returning to the 2023 Oscars to host the annual ceremony.
Published: Saturday, September 10th, 2022 @ 8:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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The state government of Texas is cutting ties with BlackRock, UBS, and other firms that are hostile toward fossil fuels, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar revealed on Wednesday.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 4:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ozzy Osbourne says he is sick and tired of "freggle cong mazzer lo" and plans to exchange his fast-paced L.A. lifestyle for the peaceful green pastures of "Ghrizzah Hurgle Kroocy Breedle Boop."
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 3:58 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Actress Zoe Kravitz admitted it’s a “scary time to have an opinion” or to make “controversial” “thoughts or anything” after she faced a backlash for how she responded to Will Smith’s 2022 Oscars slap of Chris Rock.
Published: Friday, August 26th, 2022 @ 11:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Abusing control of investors money to push corporations left
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 8:44 am
By: John Steed
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Several Republican state attorneys general informed asset manager BlackRock last week that its shareholder activism efforts “may violate multiple state laws.”
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2022 @ 2:21 pm
By: Daily Wire
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conservatives should pull funds out of far left Blackrock
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Steed
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Disgraced star Will Smith finally broke his silence on what occurred between him and wife Jada Pinkett Smith before Smith walked on stage at the 2022 Oscars and struck Chris Rock in the face.
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2022 @ 12:07 am
By: Daily Wire
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Tilman Fertitta, the owner of the Houston Rockets and several other businesses, warned during an interview this week that if Democrats pass a tax on unrealized capital gains that it would destroy capitalism in the United States.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 2:22 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Some North Carolinians can now have free COVID-19 tests shipped directly to them, thanks to the expansion of a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the Rockefeller Foundation through Project ACT.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 11:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Disgraced Hollywood star Will Smith posted a video Friday in which he apologized for slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars earlier this year.
Published: Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 @ 12:25 am
By: Daily Wire
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Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $445,582 in funding to support projects through the Open Grants Program and $1,382,782.18 to support rural broadband to community anchor institutions through MCNC.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 10:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches a rocket, it lands its booster back on a pad, thus saving hundreds of millions of dollars — and maybe lives, as well.
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 10:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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BlackRock lost $1.7 trillion of its clients’ money since the beginning of the year — the largest sum ever lost by a single firm over a six-month period, according to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg analyst Marc Rubenstein.
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 @ 11:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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Rocky Mount Opportunities Industrialized Center, Inc. (OIC) is helping build the Nash and Edgecombe workforce through its enhanced Integrated Training Academy for people with barriers to employment.
Published: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022 @ 3:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Sylvester Stallone is still unhappy with his cut from the cult classic drama “Rocky” and he’s making that clear on social media.
Published: Saturday, July 30th, 2022 @ 2:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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Legendary rocker Randy Bachman will be reunited today with a guitar that was stolen from a Toronto hotel room nearly a half-century ago and turned up in a Japanese second-hand store.
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2022 @ 9:02 pm
By: Daily Wire
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ROCKY MOUNT, N.C., (June 2, 2022) – Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $5,046,526 in funding to support projects through the second round of the SITE Program and $1,398,657.34 in funding through the Open Grants Program.
Published: Friday, June 3rd, 2022 @ 9:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. will reportedly send Ukraine the most advanced weapons system that it has supplied to the Eastern European country through its first three months of war with Russia.
Published: Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 @ 2:48 pm
By: Daily Wire
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According to sources close to local man Clay Cole, his local classic rock station played a song by Creed this morning, despite the 35-year-old man's recollection that Creed was popular "just, like, a few years ago."
Published: Tuesday, May 31st, 2022 @ 6:40 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a “The Rock,” is facing a cease and desist from Olympians claiming his relaunched XFL logo was stolen from their branding, soccer star Megan Rapinoe said Thursday.
Published: Friday, April 15th, 2022 @ 6:58 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Friday, the 54-member board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will decide whether to strip Best Actor winner Will Smith of his Oscar after the infamous incident at the ceremony where he slapped comedian Chris Rock
Published: Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 @ 7:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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After an eventful Oscars ceremony in which Will Smith assaulted Chris Rock over a quip about his wife's hair, comedienne Amy Schumer became horrified by the realization you can now get slapped in the face for telling a bad joke.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 2:59 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Notable public figures weighed in late on Sunday night about actor Will Smith striking comedian Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife during the 94th Academy Awards.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 1:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Rivers East Workforce Development Board has been awarded a National Dislocated Worker Grant (NDWTG) in the amount of $275,000 to assist the employees of the QVC Rocky Mount Distribution Center that reside in the Rivers East region.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 10:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A three-match road trip started with a heartbreaking loss as the East Carolina women's tennis team fell to Georgetown 4-3 on Monday night.
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 @ 9:20 pm
By: ECU Sports
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Jordan Lee Ferkel, age 27, a resident of Rocky Mount, passed away Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 2:52 pm
By: Announcements
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"Slumdog Millionaire," is a more complex story, yet like "Rocky," it is an Hindi yarn of a young Indian boy struggling to survive, while endeavoring to salvage what grace he can scavenge, like so many crumbs from the meager table of the proletariat.
Published: Sunday, February 20th, 2022 @ 9:09 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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