The National Legal and Policy Center says conservative non-profits should get into investigative reporting since newspapers, trying to stay afloat, aren’t really doing that much of it anymore. Good advice, but readers of Carolina Journal‘s print and online editions have been enjoying fine investigative reporting by the John Locke Foundation for years.

Today’s story by Don Carrington on the mysterious purchase of property owned by John Edwards’ Giuliani-loving neighbor is a perfect example. His expose of problems with the Randy Parton Theatre project in Roanoke Rapids is another, as are the stories by Paul Chesser exposing the Center for Climate Strategies‘ attempts to channel state global-warming initiatives into an alarmist direction.