A Wake County small business owner attempting to pay her employees' withholding tax bill discovered that the state Department of Revenue website was vulnerable to hackers
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislative leaders finally unveiled their proposed biennial state budget. (Geez, it's about time, folks.) The budget is now subject to votes by each legislative chamber and action by Governor McCrory.
Published: Friday, October 2nd, 2015 @ 4:34 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gene weighs in on the slanted views of some publications.
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2015 @ 1:53 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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It is understandable how public employees may feel like punching bags. They are subject to jabs claiming there are too many of them on the public dole, that they don’t work hard, don’t get much done and are overpaid.
Published: Friday, August 14th, 2015 @ 3:17 am
By: Tom Campbell
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There are approximately 90,000 state and local governments in the United States. Most of these entities provide a defined benefit pension plan for public employees as part of their overall compensation. State governments employ 5.3 million people and local governments employ 13.8 million, with...
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2015 @ 1:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Let's take a giant leap into the present of 2015 and see what we have on religious society.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:16 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Someone has said the real measure of a man's ministry is what happens when he leaves.
Published: Sunday, July 19th, 2015 @ 7:17 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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There are concerns that students who pursue careers in education represent the least capable of those students who pursue college degrees. As Thomas Sowell observed in Inside American Education, "Consistently, for decades, those college students who have majored in education have been among the...
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 8:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced, “The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act.” This legislation is vital to restoring justice to the victims of this heinous government run program.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced "The Treatment of Certain Payments in Eugenics Compensation Act," which would exclude payments from state eugenics compensation programs from consideration in determining federal benefits
Published: Friday, June 26th, 2015 @ 3:29 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Here is the story in NC where we are being constantly told "Conservatives are saving taxpayers money and lowering taxes."
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 4:48 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Governor Pat McCrory has nominated Christopher Loutit for appointment to the North Carolina Industrial Commission, pending approval by the North Carolina General Assembly.
Published: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 @ 3:07 am
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that an average decrease in workers' compensation insurance premium rates paid by North Carolina businesses will take effect in April 2015. The North Carolina Rate Bureau's request for a rate reduction was approved in late November 2014.
Published: Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 @ 5:33 pm
By: Chris Downey
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UNC-Chapel Hill has launched Carolina Conversations, an initiative designed to provide forums for students to discuss sensitive topics. UNC-CH will do this in three ways: sponsor regular large-scale town-hall-style forums called My Carolina Voice, smaller gatherings called Carolina Pulse, and...
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 @ 10:44 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Any conversation about campus rape policy will more than likely feature the following positions. One argument, often made by feminists and victim advocates, is that we need more guidance and support for victims. The other, expressed by due process advocates, contends that universities are unfair...
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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My budget incorporates initiatives from the North Carolina Government Efficiency and Reform program (NC GEAR) that will save more than $14 million in year one and more than $57 million in year two of the biennium, with a savings over ten years conservatively estimated at more than $615 million in...
Published: Friday, March 13th, 2015 @ 3:43 am
By: Chris Downey
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The N.C. House of Representatives has approved a proposal to amend the state constitution by adding the following language: Private property shall not be taken by eminent domain except for a public use. Just compensation shall be paid and shall be determined by a jury at the request of either party.
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 @ 1:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Problems with Workers Compensation: Workers compensation claims have cost the taxpayers $896 million dollars during the past six years...
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 7:56 pm
By: Chris Downey
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The second of two public forums was hosted by East Carolina University Tuesday to allow Board of Trustees members to hear community viewpoints on the possible renaming of Aycock Residence Hall.
Published: Wednesday, January 28th, 2015 @ 7:17 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Recently, I set my energies to recount to anyone that would take any interest in what we do, what we've done, and how it has, and shall further make a difference in better expressing who we are here Downeast.
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 11:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What began as a feel-good suicide 'Indie' film, with strident overtones of highly dysfunctional sexuality all around, quickly devolved into a poorly written Saturday Night Live sketch that struggled on far too long.
Published: Sunday, January 18th, 2015 @ 10:14 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Bob Stephens, chief legal counsel for Governor Pat McCrory released a statement following an ethics complaint filed today...
Published: Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 @ 4:22 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Mrs. Maggie Lean Murschion Satterthwaite, 88, of 481 Belhaven Square, Belhaven, died Friday, Jan. 9, 2015.
Published: Saturday, January 10th, 2015 @ 9:07 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Elbert Earl Satterthwaite, of 50 Elks Road, Chocowinity, died Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, at his home.
Published: Sunday, December 14th, 2014 @ 12:05 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory has proclaimed Saturday, November 29, 2014 as "Small Business Saturday," encouraging North Carolinians to celebrate small businesses and the valuable contributions they make to the economy.
Published: Friday, November 28th, 2014 @ 8:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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From 2009 to 2013, the University of North Carolina system gradually increased its minimum admission standards. Students entering UNC schools this fall had to score at least 800 on combined math and verbal SAT tests to be admitted.
Published: Monday, November 3rd, 2014 @ 5:08 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The UNC Board of Governors perhaps opened a can of worms by allowing three historically black universities to lower their SAT admission standards.
Published: Sunday, November 2nd, 2014 @ 12:25 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that initial payments will be mailed to the victims of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina. The payments were made possible when Governor McCrory signed the budget bill that included funding championed by former Representative Larry Womble and other legislators.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 8:49 pm
By: Chris Downey
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An important deadline for compensating victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program may pass with very few victims qualifying. That isn't good news.
Published: Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 @ 1:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An important deadline for compensating victims of North Carolina's forced-sterilization program may pass with very few victims qualifying. That isn't good news.
Published: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 12:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For fiscal year 2014-15, North Carolina's General Fund budget rose 2.2 percent to $21.1 billion.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 12:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As students head back to high school this fall, they and their parents will quickly discover that much of traditional American history taught in Advanced Placement (AP) courses for college credit is being rewritten with a distinctive left-leaning bias.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 2:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Three years after the revelation that UNC-Chapel Hill’s African and Afro-American Studies Department offered no-show classes, the Carolina community is still grappling with academic-athletic scandals at the North Carolina flagship.
Published: Thursday, June 26th, 2014 @ 5:02 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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In February, Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler declared that the North Carolina General Assembly had no authority to determine telecommunications policy in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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