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It was a bad idea for the federal government ever to get into the business of financing college with its various grants and loans, but at least in the old days, most of the money loaned was eventually repaid
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 2:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Ray Harrison Warren, Jr., 73, of Shady Banks, Washington NC passed away Sunday, October 23, 2016 after a hard-fought battle with leukemia.
Published: Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 @ 10:25 am
By: Announcements
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The 2016 short session of the General Assembly adjourned leaving plenty of items on the table, and some of them could be revived during the 2017 long session
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 12:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. Michael Leo Boyd, age 61, a resident of 455 Maple Street, Pantego, died Friday, June 24, 2016.
Published: Tuesday, June 28th, 2016 @ 2:47 pm
By: Announcements
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Approximately 55 percent of North Carolina's $21.9 billion state budget is spent on education. About 70 percent of all money devoted to education is spent on K-12 education
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2016 @ 10:01 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Mrs. Vonnie Smith Tinker, age 85, a resident of 2612 Hwy. 99 South, Belhaven, died Saturday, May 21, 2016 at Vidant Beaufort in Washington.
Published: Monday, May 23rd, 2016 @ 7:11 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Elwood Samuel Tinker, Sr., age 90, a resident of 2612 NC Hwy. 99 South, Belhaven, died Tuesday May 10, 2016 at Vidant Medical Center.
Published: Thursday, May 12th, 2016 @ 11:15 am
By: Announcements
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Whatever your are searching for, many asy the answer is in the Cloud
Published: Thursday, April 28th, 2016 @ 8:33 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Before They Were Everywhere They Were Not Everywhere
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 @ 3:24 pm
By: Alex J. Ortolano
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In less than 21 days, including the Thanksgiving holiday, Congress pushed through a bill that is over 1,000 pages long and has at least 391 pages worth of changes in it from the original version.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 8:17 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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At first, legislative leaders — led by Rep. David Lewis — were cheerleading hard for moving North Carolina’s presidential primary from May to March.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:19 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Roland Neal Cox, age 72, a resident of Washington, NC, died Thursday October 8, 2015 at River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 5:30 pm
By: Announcements
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Constitutional conservatives who are legal residents of North Carolina and who are 18 years old or older are invited to participate in New Bern in a state wide TEA Party Constitutional Caucus on Saturday, October 17, at the Double Tree Hotel located at 100 Middle Street.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2015 @ 10:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Nothing is more fun for an aging tinkerer than to have something break down in his house.
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 3:32 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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With the economic collapse of the last decade brought on largely due to the bursting of the housing bubble, does anybody still think it a good idea for government to encourage investments in "underserved" populations
Published: Friday, July 31st, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When the framers of our state’s Constitution were assigning duties and responsibilities to the various branches of government they wisely delegated to the voters decision-making responsibility for should government incurring debt.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 10:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The most important decision that the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors will make this year is the selection of the next system president.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2015 @ 12:01 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Fifty-one graduates of Beaufort County Community College’s Associate Degree Nursing program received their nursing school pins Thursday, May 14, in a ceremony, which is a traditional rite of passage for nursing school graduates across the country.
Published: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 8:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina students no longer would be required to take final exams under a bill passed by the House 116-2 on Tuesday, with supporters of House Bill 248 saying the tests vary from district-to-district, making it impossible to compare results across district lines.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was not until my son, Stanhope, called me to ask my opinion about the infamous impending Geese Decision, about 2 days prior, I was made aware of the 'mammoth problem' of just what to do about the wayward geese.
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 11:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Major donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Lumina Foundation dominate higher education philanthropy today. Most are aware of the Gates Foundation's roots in Bill's vast wealth, but the story of how Lumina came to be is more complicated.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 3:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Attend a North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges meeting and you are likely to fall asleep as board members and community college system office staffers take turns dispassionately checking off the month's agenda items to unanimous approval.
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015 @ 10:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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It's now official: Beginning with the 2015-16 school year, all North Carolina public high schools will be on a 10-point grading scale. Last week the State Board of Education approved the plan to have schools throw out the standard A-B-C-D-F system in favor of a new scale that widens the grade...
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 10:49 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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he drive-bys are working hard to gin up some interest in tonight's US Senate debate. They are trying to sell us on the possibility that this televised event tonight could change the course of the race.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 9:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Cole L. Smith, age 82, a resident of 616 College Avenue, Washington Park, died Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice House in Greenville.
Published: Saturday, August 16th, 2014 @ 10:53 pm
By: Announcements
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The details have been scrubbed from The Internet, but — thanks to resources like The Wayback Machine — nothing is ever truly GONE from cyberspace.
Published: Saturday, August 16th, 2014 @ 8:51 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Jimmy Ray Pinkham, age 58, a resident of 2393 Pocosin Road, Pinetown, died Monday, July 28, 2014 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, July 30th, 2014 @ 6:13 pm
By: Announcements
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Talk about split personalities, undefined goals, and confusing the information. You may be surprised to know what the real motives are behind the players. What looks like a mermaid is really an octopus.
Published: Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 10:08 am
By: Hood Richardson
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With $2 billion in cost overruns the past four years, Medicaid continues to be North Carolina’s most volatile political conundrum, and now unanswered questions about its spending and growth threaten to delay passage of 2014-15 state budget adjustments before next Monday’s deadline.
Published: Saturday, June 28th, 2014 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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At the end of July, at least one East Carolina University senior will be working full time in the Research Triangle area for Cisco, an international networking company.
Published: Sunday, June 1st, 2014 @ 11:07 am
By: ECU News Services
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The incident was one for the history books. In April, Brandeis University, a school created after the Holocaust for Jews who faced bias at Ivy League schools, rescinded its invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to be a commencement speaker. Hirsi Ali is an activist for fair treatment of women around the...
Published: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 9:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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