As a youth growing up in a United States of America that understood the pain of sacrifice, the remembrance of Pearl Harbor was an annual event.
Published: Thursday, December 7th, 2023 @ 9:09 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Events will be held across North Carolina honoring small, minority and women-owned businesses
Published: Sunday, October 22nd, 2023 @ 11:04 pm
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Events will be held across North Carolina celebrating small, minority, and women-owned businesses
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 @ 9:31 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed October 2021 as Minority Enterprise Development Month to acknowledge the outstanding achievements of minority businesses, corporations and financial institutions throughout the state.
Published: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 @ 12:46 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Fast-Growing Healthcare Enterprise Will Invest More than $1 Billion in Mecklenburg County
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2020 @ 1:28 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Paul Kupiec of the American Enterprise Institute compares our current economic conditions to those in societies some left-wing partisans want to emulate.
Published: Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 @ 11:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In conjunction with Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week, Governor Roy Cooper signed a proclamation declaring October 2019 as Minority Enterprise Development Month (MED Month).
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 8:46 pm
By: Governor's Office
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In February 2010, there were about 431,000 jobs at manufacturing enterprises in North Carolina. By February 2019, that number had grown to about 476,000.
Published: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 @ 8:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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LGM Enterprises, LLC, an aviation company that operates the Fly Exclusive jet charter service, will create 145 jobs and launch a company to paint and refurbish aircraft at the North Carolina Global TransPark, Governor Roy Cooper announced today
Published: Thursday, December 20th, 2018 @ 11:30 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Now that Democrats have erased the GOP's veto-proof majorities for the 2019 legislative session, Republican lawmakers could try to rush initiatives through a lame duck legislative session scheduled for Nov. 27, a top political observer says
Published: Thursday, November 15th, 2018 @ 2:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's economy is in reasonably good shape. Over the past five years of available data, our state's employers have added 480,000 net new jobs, with our job-creation rate exceeding the national and Southeastern averages
Published: Sunday, September 30th, 2018 @ 3:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When conservatives advocate lower taxes and less regulation, their critics often retort that conservatives are just advancing the interest of business
Published: Tuesday, August 7th, 2018 @ 12:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican House candidates on average spent 21 percent more than Democrats leading up to the May 8 primary contests But the total fundraising gap between the parties was small
Published: Tuesday, May 29th, 2018 @ 3:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Rev. Mark Harris and U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger sit in the same choir, singing the praises of President Donald Trump
Published: Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 @ 1:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2018 legislative primary, set for May 8, should provide more drama than usual
Published: Thursday, March 8th, 2018 @ 8:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was a homecoming for Raleigh native Jonathan Kappler in October when he became executive director of the North Carolina FreeEnterprise Foundation
Published: Thursday, November 16th, 2017 @ 4:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Davidson County Commissioner Larry Potts has a built-in advantage in his race for the House seat in District 81 - a lot more registered Republicans.
Published: Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 @ 12:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Felony mishandling of classified information, including our nation's most closely guarded intelligence secrets; the misappropriation and destruction of tens of thousands of government records - these are serious criminal offenses.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 10:50 pm
By: Jim Kouri
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Governor Pat McCrory was joined by small and minority business owners and members of the governor's Office of Historically Underutilized Businesses at the Executive Mansion today to celebrate the contributions of small and minority owned businesses.
Published: Thursday, October 27th, 2016 @ 12:13 am
By: McCrory Communications
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Democratic incumbent Rep. John Ager and Republican challenger Dr. Frank Moretz have deep roots in Western North Carolina, and hold similar views on some matters.
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2016 @ 3:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the more intriguing North Carolina congressional races is for the open seat in the 13th Congressional District between Democrat Bruce Davis and Republican Ted Budd
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2016 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"There is a date certain" when Social Security and Medicare trust funds will be empty, and Millennials and the members of Generation X will be left to pick up the pieces, one of the nation’s leading economists says
Published: Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 @ 12:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1653, an Anglican clergyman named William Lee had an idea. Watching his family members work constantly with their knitting needles, Lee wondered if it might be possible to automate the process of knitting wool into cloth
Published: Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 @ 4:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2nd Congressional District technically may be an open seat, but Republican nominee George Holding is a two-term incumbent seeking a third term
Published: Thursday, October 6th, 2016 @ 1:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican Rick Horner is campaigning to maintain the conservative direction state government is heading, while Democratic opponent Al Pacer is telling voters in Senate District 11 covering areas around Rocky Mount that change is needed
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 @ 11:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina was lauded for "impressive reforms" curtailing its regulatory burdens on businesses and individuals, and national policy analysts discussed methods of further reducing costly restrictions during a June 22 teleconference call
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Free enterprise plays a critical role in improving our lives, but a lot of people know very little about why or how. Dr. Peter Frank, dean and associate professor of economics at the Porter B. Byrum School of Business at Wingate University and free enterprise fellow at the Jesse Helms Center
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2016 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As an economist and a leading conservative, Arthur Brooks heads the American Enterprise Institute. He also champions an important argument many on the right shy away from: Conservatism is morally superior to any other political ideology, for it accomplishments have helped more people than any of...
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 2:54 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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I was aboard the USS Enterprise in 1969 when another disaster occurred. I say another because almost weekly something would happen.
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 10:15 pm
By: Ted McDonald
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Last week I reported that, based on this quote, the actions of the Governor and many state legislators in pushing new corporate welfare schemes were at odds with the Republican Party Platform. I was wrong. Shortly after my newsletter went out, I received an email telling me that, in the latest...
Published: Thursday, March 26th, 2015 @ 6:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Local factors are likely to play a larger role than statewide issues in this year's N.C. legislative elections, and no one should expect a major shift in partisan control of either the state House or Senate.
Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 @ 1:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two recent federal appeals court rulings address the question of whether Obamacare’s health insurance subsidies for individual-market consumers can be distributed to those purchasing insurance through federal exchanges.
Published: Saturday, August 9th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some businesses would rather avoid competition and prefer instead to rely on government help in the form of special incentives, regulations, or other anti-competitive policies. Fred Smith has spent his career fighting that approach to business. Smith is founder and chairman of the...
Published: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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