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Contentious Abortion Measures May Drive Wedge In GOP

Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald | Posted 04.22.2013 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, North Carolina Abortion, Politics News, Abortion Bill, North Carolina Abortion Bill, Pat McCrory, Abortion Rights, North Carolina, Politics News

Abortion-rights advocates and political observers say a series of measures in the North Carolina General Assembly adding new restrictions for the proc...

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April Is the Cruelest Month

Paul Stoller | Posted 04.15.2013 | College
Read More: College Students, Assessment, College News, College Professors, Reslience, Academia, Pat McCrory, Rick Perry, Austerity, Pat Mccgrory Education, Rick Scott Higher Education, Pat Mccrory Unc, Outcomes Assessment, Scott Walker Higher Education, College News
Paul Stoller

April is the cruelest month. The headwinds we face are very stiff. As we move forward to a new academic year, we'll need to be persistent and resilient to slow the erosion of intellectual life on campus.

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Paul Blumenthal

N.C. Gov, Mini-Koch Target 'Clean Elections'

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics
Read More: Video, Campaign Finance Reform, Art Pope, Judicial Campaign Finance, Judicial Elections, North Carolina Elections, Judicial Public Financing, Pat McCrory, North Carolina Public Financing Elections, Citizens United, Public Financing, North Carolina Judicial Public Financing, Campaign Finance, North Carolina, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In early 2011, after Republicans swept into power in both houses of the North Carolina state legislature, the conservative John Locke Fo...

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An Open Letter to the North Carolina Legislature

Jamison Doran | Posted 04.04.2013 | Politics
Read More: Religion, Voting Rights, Religion and Politics, Voter ID Laws, Racial Justice Act, North Carolina Racial Justice Act, Medicaid, Pat McCrory, Raleigh, North Carolina, Ncga, Juvenile Justice, Politics News
Jamison Doran

Friends in D.C. often greet me with, "What the hell is going on down in your home state?" I'm getting awfully tired of trying to defend the state as a whole by writing those in the legislature in Raleigh off as ideologues. It is getting harder and harder to do so.

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Anti-Gay School Board Member Confirmed To Top Education Post

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics
Read More: Buddy Collins Lgbt, Video, Pat Mccrory Buddy Collins, Buddy Collins School Board, North Carolina Glsen, Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, North Carolina Board of Education, Buddy Collins Board of Education, Buddy Collins Glsen, Buddy Collins North Carolina, Glsen, Pat McCrory, Buddy Collins Gays, Buddy Collins, Politics News

The North Carolina General Assembly has confirmed attorney Buddy Collins to the State Board of Education, despite opposition by a gay rights group ove...

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Amanda Terkel

Anti-Gay School Board Member Nominated For Plum Education Job In North Carolina

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- One of North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's (R) nominees for the State Board of Education has a long history of opposing anti-bullying meas...

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Northern Lights/Global Activism

Paul Stoller | Posted 05.25.2013 | College
Read More: Tromso, Social Media, Rick Scott, Higher Edcuation, Norway, Activism, Social Networking, College, Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Documentary Film, Pat McCrory, College News
Paul Stoller

For someone who has taught college students for more than 30 years, it is troubling to see how the current mindlessness of narrow-minded politicians and bean-counting college administrators threatens to undermine the long established and productive foundation of higher education.

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Two High School Tracks With Diverging Goals

The Technician | Posted 05.07.2013 | College
Read More: University, Career and Technical Education, Pat McCrory, Vocational Education, College, College News
The Technician

I'd like to know what McCrory wanted to do when he was entering high school as a teenager. I agree with the General Assembly that the state needs to train workers for technical fields, but education -- in its foundation -- should not be viewed as a means to end of training laborers.

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GOP Gov Could Get Big Patronage Boost

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 02.28.2013 | Politics
Read More: North Carolina Republican Party, HuffPolitics Blog, Video, North Carolina Public Utilities Commission, North Carolina Republicans, State and Local Government, North Carolina Politics, Duke Energy, North Carolina Legislature, North Carolina Boards Bill, Pat McCrory, North Carolina Lottery, Politics News

North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature is set to do battle over legislation that would allow the state's new Republican governor to make a...

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The College Path Is Not the Only One

The Technician | Posted 04.27.2013 | College
Read More: University, Career and Technical Education, Pat McCrory, Vocational Education, College, College News
The Technician

By Trey Ferguson Not everyone needs a college degree. This is a tough pill for most of us to swallow, due to the educational path we have chosen, b...

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Power Grab in North Carolina by the Republican Legislature "to Carry Out the Philosophy of the New Administration"

Yuna Shin | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Read More: Bill Rabon, Thom Goolsby, NC Coastal Resources Commission, NC State Senate, NC Utilities Commission, NC SB 10, Wilmington, Duke Energy, Nc State House, Stop Titan Action Network, Pat McCrory, Southeastern North Carolina, NC Republican Party, Josh Stein, Southport NC, Politics News
Yuna Shin

Is this fast track power grab going to spell success or doom for the North Carolina Republicans?

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GOP Governor Blasts 'Educational Elite,' Mocks Gender Studies

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.03.2013 | College
Read More: Jonathan Riehl, Higher Education Reform, North Carolina Higher Education, Gov. Pat McCrory, Education Reform, Pat McCrory, Bill Bennett, Scot Faulkner, Pat McCrory Higher Education, Republican Governors Education, College News

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) set off a firestorm this week when he declared "educational elite" have taken over colleges, and lashed out over...

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An Open Letter to Governor McCrory: Students Aren't 'Butts' -- They Are People Trying to Better Their Lives

Yuna Shin | Posted 04.03.2013 | College
Read More: Liberal Arts Education, Bill Bennett, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Community Colleges, Higher Education, Pat McCrory, UNC-CHapel Hill, Universities, North Carolina, College News
Yuna Shin

Governor McCrory, I don't know why you think you have a crystal ball. When students are well-rounded, the whole society benefits.

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Governor of North Carolina Calls University Students 'Butts' in His Comment About the State's Higher Education

Yuna Shin | Posted 04.02.2013 | College
Read More: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Bill Bennett, Higher Education, Insidehighered.com, Pat McCrory, Tom Ross, College News
Yuna Shin

Pat McCrory's statement has unleashed a torrent of comments on Insidehighered.com already. McCrory is not alone in calling for overhaul of his state's universities and community colleges. The governors of Wisconsin, Texas, and Florida, all Republicans, have proposed similar ideas,

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Liberal Arts Education and the 'Know-Nothing' Bandwagon

Emily Booker | Posted 04.02.2013 | College
Read More: University, Liberal Arts Schools, Liberal Arts Education, Education Policy, Higher Education, Vocational Training, UNC Chapel Hill, Job Creation, North Carolina, Pat McCrory Public Education, Pat McCrory, College News
Emily Booker

I and many of my peers were horrified when newly-inaugurated governor of North Carolina Pat McCrory blasted liberal arts higher education on a conservative talk show this week, taking specific aim at UNC-Chapel Hill, the flagship school of the public university system in the state.

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Ignorance About Education

Brian Rosenberg | Posted 04.01.2013 | College
Read More: Liberal Arts Education, Patrick Mccrory, College, Public Universities, Higher Education, Bill Bennett, STEM Education, Private Colleges, North Carolina, Pat McCrory, College News
Brian Rosenberg

Ignorance requires no evidence and no research. It can be endlessly repeated and rapidly spread. It inflames passions. Its pervasiveness wears down those who attempt to combat it. Which brings me to North Carolina Governor Patrick McCrory.

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Ryan J. Reilly

State's Voter ID Law Could Impact 613,000 Voters

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- As Republicans in North Carolina make a renewed push to pass a voter ID law, a new report from the State Board of Elections suggests tha...

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Paul Blumenthal

Koch Brother Ally Given Huge Job In State

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 12.21.2012 | Politics
Read More: Video, Koch Brothers, Art Pope, Americans for Prosperity, Pat McCrory, North Carolina Budget, Pat Mccrory Art Pope, Campaign Finance, North Carolina, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Conservative groups may have been embarrassed on the national stage by their failure to remove President Barack Obama from the White Hou...

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New Gov Continues Shift Toward Tea Party

Bloomberg | Posted 01.26.2013 | Politics
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In 14 years as Charlotte's mayor, North Carolina governor-elect Pat McCrory advocated light rail, bike lanes, tree planting and mandatory sidewalks in...

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Should State Education Chiefs Be Elected?

stateline | Ben Wieder | Posted 10.26.2012 | Home
Read More: Tony Bennett, June Atkinson, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Education Leaders, Pat McCrory, Alice Walton, State Education Chiefs, Naacp, Ed-Lection 2012, Indiana Schools, Bev Perdue, Education Leadership, Montana Schools, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Education Chief, Walton Foundation, Walter Dalton, State Education Leaders, North Carolina Schools, Video, Home News

This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States that provides daily r...

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GOP Candidate Quietly Supports Contentious Gay Marriage Measure

Charlotte Observer | Posted 04.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Lgbt, North Carolina Gay Marriage, North Carolina Politics, North Carolina Gay Marriage Ban, Pat McCrory, Gay Marriage, Pat Mccrory Gay Marriage Ban, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

He’d rather talk about something else – say, the economy or education. But press Pat McCrory about gay marriage, and the presumptive Republican...

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Battleground North Carolina - Democrats Sweep Local Elections

Michael Carmichael | Posted 01.09.2012 | Politics
Read More: Charlotte, David Parker, Democratic National Convention, Battleground States, Kevin Hill, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Wake County, Mecklenburg County NC, Democratic Party, Pat McCrory, Doug Johnston, Greensboro, Robbie Perkins, Art Pope, Bill Knight, Beverly Perdue, Raleigh, Battleground, Tea Party, Republican Party, Heather-Losurdo, North Carolina, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

The votes are in, and the ballots have been tabulated. It is now official. It's a Democratic landslide.

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StimCity: What America's Mayors Think of the Stimulus

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mayors, House, Oklahoma City, Jobs, Congress, Cities, Pat McCrory, Trenton, Steny Hoyer, Douglas Palmer, Charlotte, Economic Recovery, Mick Cornett, Dannel Malloy, Stamford, Senate, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Stimulus projects designed for job creation have proven ineffective. To find out why, I spoke with a handful of the nation's mayors, both Democratic and Republican.

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2008 North Carolina Gubernatorial General Election:
McCrory (R) vs. Perdue (D)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: 2008, Active, Bev Perdue, General, Governor, Michael Munger, Pat McCrory, Pollster, Politics News

NC-Gov: McCrory vs Perdue

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