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After widespread devastation from Hurricane Matthew, North Carolina is using experts to study the Cashie, Lumber, Neuse and Tar rivers to help prevent future flooding, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 @ 7:04 pm
By: Governor's Office
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November has come to the rabbit patch in a friendly fashion. Days are born slowly with fog and make the territory look enchanted, for a while.
Published: Tuesday, November 7th, 2017 @ 10:51 am
By: Michele Rhem
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I am beginning to "sound like a broken record" . . . but, it is raining at the rabbit patch.
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 4:03 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The hottest temperatures of the summer are forecast to hit parts of North Carolina over the next three days, pushing thermometers to the vicinity of triple digits and stressing people and pets
Published: Thursday, July 20th, 2017 @ 6:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At last, I am back at the "morning table" writing an account of life on the rabbit patch.
Published: Sunday, July 9th, 2017 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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My Father's Day presents included two vintage issues of Life magazine, one from November 22, 1948, the other from November 29, 1963
Published: Friday, June 16th, 2017 @ 8:32 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Children are out of school and farmers are harvesting winter wheat. "Queen Annes' Lace" and the Day Lilies bloom and mark the time better than any calendar. This is the prelude to summer at the rabbit patch.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2017 @ 6:32 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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I am in Elizabeth City on this fair morning- the day that belongs to anyone with even a bit of Irish blood in their veins has dawned with birds singing.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2017 @ 6:37 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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After less than a week in office, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper is already preparing for his first winter storm
Published: Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 12:08 am
By: Governor's Office
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Governor Pat McCrory has declared Dec. 11-17 as Winter Weather Preparedness Week and is urging North Carolinians to plan, prepare and be ready for potentially dangerous winter weather
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 10:02 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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As we travel and meet with family this week for the Thanksgiving holiday, there are two items that are bound to be on most tables - turkeys and sweet potatoes. North Carolina is ranked first nationally in sweet potato production and second nationally for turkey production. The state's...
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2016 @ 3:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III, and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina (EDPNC) today announced that Elkamet Inc. will expand its manufacturing site in Henderson County
Published: Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 12:38 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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A lawsuit filed by the president of a conservative policy organization says the North Carolina Constitution requires payments from a 2000 agreement between pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. and the North Carolina Department of Justice go to public schools
Published: Friday, October 28th, 2016 @ 4:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A reporter for the Western Carolinian of Salisbury in 1825 wrote, "The mining interest of the state is now only second to the farming interest."
Published: Saturday, October 1st, 2016 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In her first public campaign appearance since departing from a 9/11 memorial service Sunday and collapsing as she entered her car, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton spoke at a rally Thursday in Greensboro, telling supporters to fight the divisive Republican tactics of her opponent Dona
Published: Saturday, September 17th, 2016 @ 9:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2016 @ 11:25 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Amid blinking lights, shattering glass and thumping helicopter blades, adrenaline was pumping at the Winterville Fire-Rescue-EMS station April 9 as students from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University joined first responders for a mock disaster exercise.
Published: Sunday, June 5th, 2016 @ 2:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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During his March 11 campaign stop in Raleigh, Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., warned of planetary devastation from climate change unless the world shifts from fossil fuel-based energy to renewable forms of power
Published: Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 @ 10:37 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory and First Lady Ann McCrory are encouraging North Carolinians to take additional steps to ensure their pets are safe this winter.
Published: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 3:01 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Ahead of a winter storm that will enter North Carolina Wednesday, Governor Pat McCrory has ordered state agencies to begin preparations for possible treacherous travel conditions.
Published: Friday, January 22nd, 2016 @ 10:51 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Here is some history about firefighting. Like many things forwarded and found on the internet, I have not been able to source this information but found it interesting. All my life I have heard the phrase "Fire Plug" and I must admit that my "Intellectual Curiosity" never reached the point of lookin
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:46 am
By: Bobby Tony
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For those of us who have been fighting to eliminate solar and other renewable energy subsidies from the burden being born by North Carolina's taxpayers, the new state budget is very welcome. As of January 1, the 35 percent tax credit for renewables in general and solar in particular, by far the...
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2015 @ 5:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. counties entered into incentives contracts totaling nearly $284 million from 2009 to 2014, according to a first-of-its-kind John Locke Foundation Policy Report compiling statewide local incentives data. The report shows actual incentives payments totaled $144 million over the same five-year per
Published: Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 @ 2:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Because temperatures are reaching dangerous highs this time of year, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health is encouraging people with diabetes to take extra precaution to maintain healthy blood glucose levels.
Published: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015 @ 9:11 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory, North Carolina Commerce Secretary John E. Skvarla, III and the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina announced today that Metal Works Mfg. Co. will be expanding in Cleveland County.
Published: Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 @ 11:44 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Just your local Emergency Management Office wanting to alert you to the National Weather Service Heat Advisory issued today.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2015 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The NC General Assembly was in session until 1:30 am hammering out Amendments to the budget, and it was passed 93-23, with 11 Republicans and 12 Democrats voting against and sent to the Senate.
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 5:48 pm
By: Michael Speciale
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Energy is necessary for just about everything we do. And when the cost of energy goes up, we pay more over and over and over. Residential customers pay more to keep the lights on and the refrigerator running. Business owners pay more to keep the lights on and the machines running. Consumers pay...
Published: Monday, April 13th, 2015 @ 5:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Blinkin' Chris and Angry Rob and their comedy web site are calling for the end of solitary confinement in North Carolina prisons
Published: Saturday, April 11th, 2015 @ 10:01 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The NC General Assembly was shut down for about two weeks due to snow and other bad weather. The Bill submission deadline was not extended due to the weather, so we are jumping through hoops now to get our Bills into Bill Drafting before the submission deadline on March 18th.
Published: Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 @ 10:51 pm
By: Michael Speciale
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East Carolina University associate professor Sharon Rogers has spent hours weighing high school football players before and after practice.
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 11:27 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The AP is reporting that, like the Locke Foundation, the Heartland Institute, and a number of other think tanks, private companies, and individual scientists, Koch Industries, headed by philanthropists and donors to free market causes David and Charles Koch, has received a letter demanding...
Published: Monday, March 16th, 2015 @ 5:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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