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BCCC saluted its graduates this week at the annual Graduate Recognition Ceremony.
Published: Sunday, April 20th, 2014 @ 12:44 am
By: Barbara Tansey
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Education is the most important function of state government. While there are some exciting and wonderful things going on in education North Carolina’s outcomes are far from what we want and need.
Published: Sunday, March 16th, 2014 @ 12:04 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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I thought we beat the issue of tolling ferries in Eastern North Carolina about a year ago. At that time there were meetings, newspaper articles, threats of political doom, and a lot of dancing by politicians.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:52 am
By: Hood Richardson
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State House speaker and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been catching some flak from GOP activists — and finally from the mainstream media — for skipping out on candidate debates in the GOP primary race.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 11:30 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Hilton Ray "Stooge" Lewis, age 74, a resident of Washington, NC died Saturday February 8, 2014 at Ridgewood Manor Nursing Center.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 10:00 am
By: Announcements
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He was born on June 23, 1930, in Washington, NC to the late Dr. John C. Tayloe, Sr., of Washington, NC and the late Nell Holt Tayloe.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2014 @ 1:46 am
By: Announcements
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State AARP officials Friday rolled out their 2014 legislative priorities, and among them were safeguarding Medicare from cost-cutting, expanding Medicaid, and helping more seniors not yet eligible for Medicare to enroll in the federal health exchange. At the Raleigh event, AARP leaders also...
Published: Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 @ 7:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Until about five years ago, few people said much about America's federal student loan system. There was no talk of a "crisis," and discussions about change were pretty much limited to tinkering around the edges.
Published: Tuesday, December 31st, 2013 @ 1:48 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Herbert Croly was instrumental in describing an alternative vision of government that was radically different than the one pictured by the Founding Fathers - Progressivism.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2013 @ 8:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gary Ross Downey, 61, passed away on Sunday, November 17, 2013 in Bath, NC where he resided for the past four years after a year long battle with cancer.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2013 @ 10:33 am
By: Announcements
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Well, it appears that public education is back in the news. The North Carolina Bankers Association - of all groups - has endorsed the Common Core curriculum for the state's public schools.
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2013 @ 10:26 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Lynwood Sylvester Kirk, age 71, a resident of the Belhaven and Pamlico Beach Community died Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at River Trace Nursing & Rehabilitation Center of Washington, NC.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2013 @ 10:28 pm
By: Announcements
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Senator Richard Burr doesn't have time for the folks at Heritage Action, but he made time this week for Rotary.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2013 @ 3:24 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Walter Clifford Warren, age 80, a resident of the Pamlico Plantation Community, Washington, NC, passed away Saturday, June 22, 2013.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 @ 9:40 pm
By: Announcements
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Two Beaufort County Community College students who began their studies at the college in the ninth grade have been added to the ranks of BCCC Ambassadors for the 2013-2014 Academic Year.
Published: Thursday, June 13th, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Registrar's Office at Beaufort County Community College has released the honor roll for the 2013 Spring Semester.
Published: Wednesday, May 29th, 2013 @ 4:13 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This nation has been in depression since 2008. Why? Because our leaders have refused to make changes in the way government operates at all levels.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 5:51 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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I would like to begin by apologizing to all of our many readers for our creeping speed today. We fixed the problem, but not without some great diligence.
Published: Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 @ 10:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Last September, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $3.3 million in grants for papers on the subject of federal student aid programs--specifically, how we should "reimagine" student aid. The papers were recently released, but there wasn't anything very imaginative in them.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 8:55 pm
By: George Leef
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Seven students have been chosen by the Beaufort County Community College Foundation to represent BCCC as Ambassadors for 2013-2014.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2013 @ 11:21 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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There was once a time in America when the exploits of NASA was a national ambition - Democrat, Republican - it did not matter.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2013 @ 3:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Fifty-six BCCC students inducted into Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society Fifty-six BCCC students were inducted into the Gamma Phi Honor Society in a ceremony held on the BCCC campus Tuesday, Feb. 12, the largest group of students inducted into the organization in recent years.
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 12:28 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Southside High School would like to welcome its interns who are completing their educational requirements at Southside this semester.
Published: Saturday, February 9th, 2013 @ 12:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Joseph Foster Massey, Jr., age 84, a resident of Pamlico Plantation, Washington, NC, and beloved husband of K. Jane Massey, died on Sunday, January 20, 2013, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 @ 1:08 am
By: Announcements
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The Registrar's Office at Beaufort County Community College has released the honor roll for the 2012 Fall Semester. Full-time students maintaining a grade point average of 4.0 or better were placed on the all "A"s list.
Published: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 4:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Michael L. Cole, 56, of Kernersville, father of two and husband of Pamela Cole, passed away January 17, 2013.
Published: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
By: Announcements
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Virtual charter schools and other distance-learning options would be unshackled from the legal-political bind in which they remain idled if Lt. Gov.-elect Dan Forest has his way.
Published: Thursday, December 27th, 2012 @ 9:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." H. L. Mencken
Published: Friday, November 9th, 2012 @ 11:22 pm
By: Warren Smith
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There are at least as many different ways to explain the origins of political disagreement as there are political commentators.
Published: Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 @ 11:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As North Carolina continues to shift most of its Medicaid recipients into its showcase Community Care of North Carolina program, some say the centralized system needs free-market reforms to avoid chronic and costly budget overruns.
Published: Wednesday, August 29th, 2012 @ 3:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week marks the start of the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will be named the GOP ticket for November's election. We already know that Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be the Democratic ticket.
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2012 @ 11:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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And while this is my byline, and while all of words expressed below may have well been mine - they are not - most are from citizen Warren Smith.
Published: Wednesday, June 20th, 2012 @ 6:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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