island in Dare County, North Carolina, United States
August 15, 1754 | Benjamin Hawkins was born in Warren County. He became one of North Carolina’s first United States Senators. President George Washington later appointed him Principal Temporary Agent for…
Tucked into the new state budget are billions of dollars from Washington for Covid relief. The American Rescue Plan Act, for example, sent $5.4 billion to the state. These funds…
Cooper’s budget proposal is an unrealistic political document, not a serious budget plan. It would increase budgeted expenditures over the current year by 11.6 percent. The budget would direct hundreds…
That’s what author Scott Dawson claims in a new book called The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island. According to Dawson, the English colonists who settled the so-called Lost Colony were “never lost,” they…
The Heartland Institute’s “Somewhat Reasonable” blog quoted John Locke Foundation Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops in an article about North Carolina’s new A-F grades for public schools.…
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources houses many of the state’s largest attractions. Here are a few of them and their budget impact: Aquariums North Carolina’s aquariums were first…
View in your browser. One of the major areas of spending in the state budget is Natural and Economic Resources (NER). Within that, there are five major categories: the Department…
I was in the process of writing a scathing commentary on Bill Harrison’s comparison between Great Depression and Great Recession education spending when I came across the elementary school matching…
Read the News & Observer this morning, and you’ll find a fascinating story about new information related to the famous Lost Colony. For more background information, check out the encyclopedia…
Some thirty million Americans are thought to be descended from the Pilgrims of the Mayflower; about 6.8 million Americans claim Native American ancestry. A much smaller number used to gather…