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It has been four years since Republicans took control of our legislature. They now control all three branches of state government.
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 11:51 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Inquiring minds want to know who that guy thinks he is.
Published: Monday, July 27th, 2015 @ 4:19 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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A researcher at East Carolina University has been studying what parents of children with autism spectrum disorder know and how they make decisions about genetic testing.
Published: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 2:34 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Yogi Berra once said, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
Published: Tuesday, June 9th, 2015 @ 10:12 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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"This is my dream job; it doesn't get much better than this." That was the unanimous response from several of the Vidant EastCare team members when asked about what they do every day. This month, the emergency medical transport service for Vidant Health, celebrates its 30th anniversary.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 9:02 pm
By: Chris Downey
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John Humphrey O'Neal was born on August 1, 1929 in Hyde County, NC to the late Preston and Nita Whitney O'Neal. "Bro", as he was affectionately known, departed this life on February 25, 2015.
Published: Saturday, February 28th, 2015 @ 5:48 am
By: Announcements
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Before the governor and legislators release their versions of the state budget, a very important source of information is needed - a comprehensive assessment of the state's debt status. Each year the Treasurer's office releases a Debt Affordability Study, which outlines the state's debt...
Published: Thursday, February 12th, 2015 @ 4:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Geraldine Delors Brown Windley, 89, a former resident of Savannah Road, Belhaven, died Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at River Trace Rehabilitation Center of Washington.
Published: Friday, February 6th, 2015 @ 1:48 pm
By: Announcements
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While worldwide reports of Ebola infections have recently ebbed, East Carolina University graduate student Issa Thullah knows it's still a major issue in his hometown of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2014 @ 9:32 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Two Bolivian hearts were mended, and many local hearts warmed, over the past few weeks, thanks to a partnership between the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Vidant Medical Center and Samaritan's Purse's Children's Heart Project.
Published: Thursday, November 20th, 2014 @ 12:55 am
By: ECU News Services
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Here at Haymaker HQ, we are still scratching our heads over this one. A nurse named Kaci Hickox went to west Africa to help ebola victims.
Published: Saturday, November 1st, 2014 @ 7:45 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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On August 16, 2014 at approximately 12:00 p.m., the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a sexual assault of a juvenile which occurred at a residence on Mill Road in Chocowinity, NC.
Published: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 7:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On August 5, 2014, Deputies with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Patrol Division served an arrest warrant on Samuel Todd Gaskins, age 30, of 155 Taylor Lane in Chocowinity.
Published: Saturday, September 13th, 2014 @ 7:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Can a university be so influential and respected in a community that its public image can withstand any kind of onslaught?
Published: Saturday, July 26th, 2014 @ 2:40 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Charlotte, N.C. – Governor Pat McCrory and North Carolina Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker announced today that Spectra Group Inc. will be moving its financial services delivery center to Mecklenburg County. The company plans to create 250 jobs in Charlotte by the end of 2018.
Published: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014 @ 7:28 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Hazel W. Carraway, age 83, a resident of River Trace Nursing and Rehab, died peacefully at Vidant Beaufort Hospital Friday July 18, 2014.
Published: Monday, July 21st, 2014 @ 9:55 am
By: Announcements
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Congressman Walter Jones takes action and relates it to his constituents through these press releases.
Published: Friday, July 18th, 2014 @ 1:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mary Southall Shelburne McLaurin, 99, a resident of River Landing at Sandy Ridge in Colfax, NC, died on Wednesday, June 18, 2014.
Published: Friday, June 20th, 2014 @ 11:02 am
By: Announcements
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One of the attorneys hoping to dissolve Obamacare through a lawsuit challenging the health reform act's Independent Payment Advisory Board said the deaths and mismanagement recently reported at Veterans Administration hospitals are "a great preview" of what lies in store if the health care law is...
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Almost as much awaited as the yearly U.S. News & World Report college rankings is the annual Princeton Review ranking of the top "party schools." By Princeton Review's analysis, the top party school this year is (drumroll)...the University of Iowa. Congratulations, Hawkeyes. You beat out the Univers
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 2:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A leading opponent of building a major wind energy facility in Carteret County says it was a tourism-depressing, jobs-killing project that was defeated in spite of, not because of, a state law passed last year to regulate environmental impacts and avoid adverse health effects of...
Published: Friday, February 28th, 2014 @ 1:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mr. John Harvey Sr., formerly of the Terra Ceia Community, died Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, at Wake Medical Center, Raleigh.
Published: Saturday, January 25th, 2014 @ 12:30 am
By: Announcements
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Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. and cardiovascular physicians and staff accepted recognition Jan. 14 for being part of the first heart center in the Carolinas and Tennessee to install and use an advanced piece of imaging equipment.
Published: Friday, January 17th, 2014 @ 1:59 pm
By: ECU News Services
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In late November, Phillip Brooks from the Union County community of Marshville notified Carolina Journal that his address probably was being used as part of a scheme to collect a fraudulent federal tax refund check. Marshville is the third North Carolina locality - and fourth overall in 2013 - at...
Published: Sunday, December 29th, 2013 @ 11:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and the rest of the House GOP leadership have pretty much stomped out the last vestiges of the GOP's claim to being the party of smaller government.
Published: Saturday, December 14th, 2013 @ 8:56 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Suppose you sent your daughter to a music camp - an expensive camp lasting months. She had said that she wanted to learn the violin, so you bought a nice one and sent her off to camp. Upon her return, you ask how the camp was and she replies, "Great! We studied lots of stuff about music and the...
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 4:41 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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We've got 535 voting members of Congress. Yet. this "bi-partisan", "disaster-averting" budget deal announced yesterday got hammered out in private talks between Senate Budget Committee chairman Patty Murray and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan.
Published: Thursday, December 12th, 2013 @ 11:04 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The 1669 act was an early regulation of marriage in Carolina. The statute was enacted by the Lords Proprietors, who governed according to the Charter of 1663 (above). image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Elda "Toodle" Keech, died Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. Mrs. Keech had been fighting cancer for the past two years.
Published: Saturday, November 16th, 2013 @ 10:44 pm
By: Announcements
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Once again, students are rejecting on-campus speakers who don't toe the politically correct line. At Brown University on October 29, a group of students shouted, chanted, and booed as New York police commissioner Ray Kelly began a lecture on "proactive policing," which includes the controversial...
Published: Friday, November 15th, 2013 @ 10:51 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Republicans slashed the education budget, offered teachers no pay raise and passed vouchers to allow kids to take public school dollars to private schools! We're witnessing the dismantling of public education!
Published: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 @ 3:34 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Some people have an unshakable belief in the ability of government to solve problems. We hear lots of demands, for example, that the government fix all the problems in our health care system with a "single payer" system where it pays the bills and writes the rules.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 9:02 am
By: John William Pope Center
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North Carolina businesses have struggled mightily against the 15,000+ new regulations, amendments and rules that have been implemented in our state over the past decade. Our high unemployment rate and stagnant growth are proof that you cannot regulate an economy into riches.
Published: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 @ 1:33 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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You've never heard of Sarah Danaher or the company she founded, Ampersand Photography. What makes Sarah's story interesting is that she could easily have gone to college after finishing high school, but chose not to. She likes learning, but is passionate about photography and didn't want to...
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 4:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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