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18233
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In the 1970s, Governor Sanford urged members of the General Assembly to open three specialized schools each focusing specifically on the arts, math and science, and the humanities. Only the school of art, located in Winston-Salem, was realized by Governor Sanford. With Governor Hunt in charge, he persuaded the General Assembly of 1977 and 1979 to establish the school of Math and Science to open in Durham at the end of 1980.
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18302
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The protection of certain legal rights of public school students is now new, but students have acquired major new entitlements in the past decade that focus on racial and sexual discrimination, appearance, and free speech.
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18324
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Enrollment in North Carolina's elementary and secondary schools has changed in the past 25 years, creating new challenges for school planning, administration, and financing.
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18327
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Southern manufacturing differs from manufacturing in the rest of the country. It lacks diversified industrial base, and is dominated by low-wage, low-value added, labor intensive, slow growth industries. In the past decades the south has undergone a number of changes resulting from rapid urbanization and industrialization; nevertheless, the region remains materially poor. Moriarty examines the reasons behind this using North Carolina as a case study.
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18333
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Almost all North Carolina local governments have outstanding indebtedness. Yet except for the very largest counties and cities, local governments issues new debt--bonds and notes--only infrequently. This article introduces the reader to the subject of local government debt, and the character and history of debt in North Carolina
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18379
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In 1830 Congress narrowly passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the federal government to make Removal treaties with Indian tribes, but the Cherokee resisted. Instead of war, the Cherokee went to court. Despite rulings in their favor, the state of Georgia began distributing tribal land to state citizens. Due to increased pressure, began walking on what became known as the Trail of Tears. Although most moved west, a small group stayed in north Carolina.
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18539
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Tax-increment financing is a program allowing cities to borrow fund for development projects and repay those loans through increased taxes. In Spring 1982, the General Assembly approved tax-increment financing programs and put to a public vote in the fall of 1982. The article reviews pros and cons of tax-increment financing and a voters' guide on the subject.
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18578
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One statutory option a city or county has in enforcing its ordinances is to impose a civil penalty on a violator, and if necessary, sue for the penalty in a civil action in the nature of the debt. This article considers the question of whether the ordinance being enforced must set out an exact dollar amount for each penalty, to be sued for regardless of circumstances, or whether it may set out a dollar range for penalties and leave to an administrative official or board the decision as to the amount of the penalty in any individual instance.
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18579
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Both cities and counties enjoy statutory authority to enforce their ordinances through civil penalties, which if necessary can be collected in a civil action in the nature of the debt. The North Carolina General Statues sets the upper limit of the fines or penalties for local ordinances enforced as misdemeanors or infractions, but there is no statutory maximum for civil penalties in general.
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18604
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Between 1999 and 2001, approximately 84,000 faunal specimens from seven excavated sites along the Roanoke River Basin in North Carolina and Virginia were cataloged and analyzed. The purpose of the study was to provide information to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to develop fishery management plans and restoration plans for endangered species through studying this historic distribution and abundance of fish and other animals in the basin.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 50 Issue , Oct 2001,
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18664
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The North Carolina Radiocarbon Date Study was undertaken to compile information about radiocarbon dates that have been obtained from archaeological contexts in North Carolina.
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18665
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Radiocarbon dates relevant to North Carolina prehistory have been compiled to allow for analysis of archaeological materials through temporal and geographic distributions.
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Southern Indian Studies
(NoCar E 78.S55 S6), Vol. 42 Issue , Oct 1994,
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18680
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McManus discusses the analysis of a lithic assemblage from the Forbush Creek site in Yadkin County. Stone tools and associated debitage were examines to provide information concerning the technology and subsistence-related activities of Late Prehistoric Indians in the piedmont of North Carolina.
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Southern Indian Studies
(NoCar E 78.S55 S6), Vol. 34 Issue , Oct 1985,
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18935
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Ruth Little has written a work entitled STICKS AND STONES: THREE CENTURIES OF NORTH CAROLINA GRAVEMARKERS. Although not a catalog of every historic gravemarker in the state, the book does provide a guide to major types of markers, how they have changed over the years, and what they mean.
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18948
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When the first European explorers ventured into Cherokee territory, they were amazed and dismayed, by the impenetrable strands of cane that lined the banks of the region's rivers and streams. Fariello describes the process of turning this cane into the intricate baskets.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 57 Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2010,
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