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A quarter-century after its launch, the Global TransPark continues searching for a strategic plan that works.
Published: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017 @ 5:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The power to grant a right to health care is the right to deny it
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 8:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is joining with the N.C. Community Health Center Association, citizens and partners across the state to observe National Health Center Week, Aug. 13-19
Published: Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 @ 1:19 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Roy Cooper has signed a State of Emergency declaration and waived weight and hours of service restrictions due to a major power outage on Hatteras Island in Dare County and Ocracoke Island in Hyde County
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2017 @ 5:47 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A new facility in Greenville will increase collaborative education for health care providers across eastern North Carolina, including those who begin their careers East Carolina University
Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2017 @ 3:35 am
By: ECU News Services
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A toll-free legal aid hotline is now available for victims of Hurricane Matthew in North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, October 25th, 2016 @ 4:12 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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East Carolina University's Willis Building is now home to a collaborative partnership aimed at fostering entrepreneurship and giving a leg up to local business start-ups
Published: Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 @ 11:50 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Governor Pat McCrory provided an update today on the North Carolina National Guard, State Highway Patrol and other resources deployed to help the city of Charlotte restore order following two nights of unrest.
Published: Saturday, September 24th, 2016 @ 1:20 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory has announced close to $70 million in grant funding to address issues related to human trafficking, gangs, veterans rights and safer communities and schools through programs administered by the Governor's Crime Commission (GCC).
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2016 @ 4:23 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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At the Pope Center we spend a lot of time recommending changes to higher education policy. It's in our name. But there are ways you-as a citizen, parent, student, or employer-can pressure higher education to change.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 4:17 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Despite earlier claims by Iberdrola Renewables officials that the $400 million, 300-megawatt Amazon Wind Farm that will cover 22 acres near Elizabeth City would be built totally from company funds, another Iberdrola official says the project requires some tax incentives to be viable economically.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than 450 people attended a community celebration to kick-off the Gaston County Critical Time Intervention (CTI) program. CTI is part of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Crisis Solutions Initiative which focuses on identifying and implementing the best known...
Published: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 @ 3:40 pm
By: Chris Downey
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This afternoon could provide an opportunity for some severe weather that we all need to be aware of and make our fellow responders and counterparts: "Weather Aware".
Published: Thursday, May 21st, 2015 @ 11:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina lawmakers would harm, not help, the state's economic growth if they extend and expand corporate tax incentive programs.
Published: Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 @ 10:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Students and residents representing three of East Carolina University's health sciences programs recently participated in the university's first interprofessional virtual patient case.
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 12:09 pm
By: ECU News Services
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It's so sad to hear Republicans mouthing platitudes similar to what you'd expect to hear from Barry Obama - or what you might read in the pages of Karl Marx's infamous manifesto
Published: Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 @ 4:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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East Carolina University's Board of Trustees voted Feb. 20 to transition the name of Charles B. Aycock from a residence hall to a new space where the building's namesake and others will be recognized.
Published: Monday, February 23rd, 2015 @ 8:29 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Shortly after the first Thanksgiving early settlers started migrating west in search of cheaper, less crowded and more available land. Ironically, today's cheaper, less crowded and open land is more often found in the rural east and far western sections early settlers left.
Published: Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 @ 12:34 am
By: Tom Campbell
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It may sound like John McCain and Lindsey Graham, but the words are coming out of Speaker Thom Tillis's mouth.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 12:48 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In the midst of receiving white coats and reciting pledges, another important message was delivered to medical students arriving at East Carolina University this fall: Diversity is valued at the Brody School of Medicine.
Published: Friday, September 5th, 2014 @ 3:23 pm
By: ECU News Services
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In November, the NC Office of the State Auditor released a critical audit of the North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS).
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 4:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 18 offenders were hand-picked for a special program, based on their arrest records (not conviction records). All are at high risk to run afoul of the law while they are on parole, probation, or work release.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A new Commerce Department program designed to consolidate information collected by the state on job openings and career development is expected to reduce taxpayer spending by roughly $800,000 a year compared with outlays on existing programs. But several lawmakers question whether the state...
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 11:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I am honored to be here today. Alas, my message is not altogether pleasant. Indeed, it may be the intellectual equivalent of having a hemorrhoid operation performed by an unlicensed French physician just returned from a wine-laden lunch.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2013 @ 9:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory accepted the Center for Safer Schools 2013 Report from Department of Public Safety Secretary Frank L. Perry today.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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One of the ten planks of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is "Centralization of credit in the hands of the State." Apparently of like mind is North Carolina state Senator Ellie Kinnaird (D-Orange), primary sponsor of Senate Bill 150, Study State-Owned Banks.
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2013 @ 6:51 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The Republicans were actually trying to save the Social Security system which is at risk of failing in the next decade.
Published: Tuesday, February 12th, 2013 @ 4:41 am
By: Alicia Colon
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Created by the State of North Carolina in 1792 as a planned capital city, the area encompassing present-day Raleigh, North Carolina had a handful of sparse colonial settlements as early as the 1760s.
Published: Sunday, February 10th, 2013 @ 2:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I had an interesting talk today with an individual who is (1) a well-known name in North Carolina Republican circles and (2) a battle-tested veteran of decades of political combat:
Published: Monday, August 20th, 2012 @ 12:15 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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In recent months, liberal advocacy groups have conducted a concerted attack against the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Washington, D.C.- based nonpartisan public-policy group created in 1973 that promotes federalism, free markets, and limited government.
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2012 @ 10:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A citizen watchdog says the Durham County school board's rush to oppose a science and technology-based charter school has deprived the public of sufficient review and input.
Published: Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 @ 4:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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