They are among the state’s 75 and older population now eligible to receive the vaccines and discuss why it’s the best shot at stopping the spread of COVID-19
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 12:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ever since that episode in Eden's garden, the one where humans were enticed into eating the forbidden fruit, serpents have been considered the lowest of creatures
Published: Monday, July 23rd, 2018 @ 12:19 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Spend much time listening to the political rhetoric flowing from the state capital, and you're likely to hear complaints about legislative "power grabs" and efforts to "rip authority away" from the governor and the state's judges
Published: Saturday, July 14th, 2018 @ 4:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three galleries, four exhibits on display now! Thanks to Zaxby's and AOP members, Lynne Anderson & Pat Carlson for donating appetizers for the January art reception at AOP.
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 @ 7:12 pm
By: Russell Allen
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When North Carolina Democrats Jim Hunt and Rufus Edmisten were running their races for U.S. Senate and governor in 1984, they kept as far away as they could from the Democratic nominee for president, Walter Mondale
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2016 @ 10:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Arts of the Pamlico presents Your Weekly Updates
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2016 @ 8:32 am
By: Russell Allen
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When the framers of our state’s Constitution were assigning duties and responsibilities to the various branches of government they wisely delegated to the voters decision-making responsibility for should government incurring debt.
Published: Sunday, June 28th, 2015 @ 10:47 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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For years, the news has been peppered with stories about politicians setting up study panels and commissions to deal with a certain issue.
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 11:11 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory issued a statement following the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel which upheld the Governor's challenge involving the use of commissions to perform regulatory responsibilities assigned to the Executive Branch.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 7:51 pm
By: Chris Downey
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As the 2014 election cycle draws to a close, few states have drawn so much national attention as North Carolina, thanks to the tight Hagan-Tillis race, the dramatic turn in state government from blue to red, and our status as a presidential swing state in 2008 and 2012.
Published: Friday, October 31st, 2014 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've made this point before, but it's worth emphasizing one more time: those who oppose school choice in elementary and secondary education should, if they wish to be consistent, oppose former Gov. Jim Hunt's Smart Start program and former Gov. Mike Easley's More At Four program, now known as NC Pre
Published: Saturday, May 10th, 2014 @ 4:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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While crafting the state budget last year, the North Carolina General Assembly applied the latest empirical research to the question of how best to improve teacher quality. In response, lawmakers have been roundly excoriated by the usual suspects — which only served to demonstrate that the...
Published: Wednesday, April 30th, 2014 @ 11:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Humorous anecdotes, stories of her love of learning and teaching, and praise from a former governor showered Janice Hardison Faulkner as a gallery space in Joyner Library was dedicated in her honor March 10.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 1:22 am
By: ECU News Services
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I'm talking about the political struggle over North Carolina's 3rd-grade reading standard, not the violent struggle between Paul Newman and the prison warden in "Cool Hand Luke." Nevertheless, the consequences could be severe if North Carolina's dispute isn't resolved. Any resolution, in turn...
Published: Sunday, March 16th, 2014 @ 11:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If North Carolina Democrats were to gain some legislative seats this year, state and national pundits would probably spill gobs of ink - or at least fill gobs of pixels - with elaborate explanations of how the party began to recover its footing in a state it once dominated.
Published: Tuesday, March 11th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Why does the Left oppose school choice? It can't be because they oppose tax dollars going to private, even faith-based institutions. For decades, state and federal subsidies have flowed to private colleges and universities, including sectarian institutions. For decades, Medicare and Medicaid...
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday outlined the goals for his second year in office, which include increasing teacher pay, fast-tracking fracking, and calling on the General Assembly to embrace his wife's top project - enacting puppy mill legislation.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 4:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If state leaders want to improve North Carolina's education system in the future, they will have to begin with a better understanding of the history of school reform in our state.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 2:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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McCrory previewed his legislative agenda in a speech at the Hunt Institute's Holshouserhmc Legislators Retreat on Monday night, though he did not provide specific policy plans.
Published: Saturday, January 18th, 2014 @ 11:40 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Since Jim Hunt's final term as governor, North Carolina policymakers and education activists have been fixated on raising the salaries of K-12 public school teachers to a "national average" compiled by the nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2014 @ 1:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a previous column, I noted that the Left's crusade against conservative ideas and politicians in North Carolina faces an implacable foe: the time-space continuum. Leftist predictions that reducing North Carolina's sales tax in 2011 would result in weaker economic growth have proven in...
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Education leaders and some politicians for years have urged that pay for educators in North Carolina be at "the national average," a goal used for no other employment sector in the state as a metric to gauge the appropriateness of pay.
Published: Monday, January 6th, 2014 @ 11:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you said that you found the current political climate in Raleigh and Washington to be frustrating, dispiriting, and often juvenile, I'd second that emotion. But if you said it was unprecedented, I'd have to disagree - politely, of course!
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 @ 3:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's highest court is about to weigh in - again - on state government's constitutional role in making sure children considered at risk of failure in school begin kindergarten with the proper tools to succeed.
Published: Saturday, October 5th, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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I was out at a social gathering last night, when I overheard a conversation that bothered me. These were some folks I know - low info voters who are moderate to conservative in their politics - who I know voted for Pat McCrory in 2012.
Published: Thursday, August 22nd, 2013 @ 8:52 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A memorable example dates back to March 4, 1999, when the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the results of national reading exams. They showed that North Carolina was one of only five states that posted significant gains in 4th-grade reading...
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2013 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you had to choose a single election cycle to spotlight as the most consequential in recent North Carolina history, which would it be?
Published: Sunday, April 14th, 2013 @ 2:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Everyone wants to avoid the proverbial fiscal cliff that threatens us on January 1, but nobody wants to make any sacrifices to prevent it.
Published: Friday, November 30th, 2012 @ 1:09 am
By: Tom Campbell
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"I love it when a plan comes together."
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 1:38 pm
By: Fern Shubert
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A rocky second day of the Democratic National Convention almost ended with a flourish, as former President Bill Clinton formally nominated President Obama for a second term of office.
Published: Friday, September 7th, 2012 @ 7:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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No matter what happens in the gubernatorial election this year, a political string will be broken - our governor will no longer hail from Eastern North Carolina.
Published: Monday, July 30th, 2012 @ 10:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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More than a third of voters turned out for North Carolina's primary elections, far higher than the normal turnout in a presidential year and almost as high as the record turnout for the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama slugfest in 2008.
Published: Saturday, May 12th, 2012 @ 1:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's two major preschool initiatives, Smart Start and More at Four, have been the subject of political claims and controversies ever since their creation.
Published: Sunday, March 11th, 2012 @ 10:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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