As early voting begins in North Carolina, Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson continues to offer updates on the week’s top electoral developments for the Curtis Media Group’s syndicated “People In Politics” radio audience. Both the Mount Airy News and the Richmond County Daily Journal picked up Henderson’s recent CJ editorial panning state film incentives.

The N.C. Spin website publicized Associate Editor Dan Way‘s article on criticism of proposed accountable care organizations linked to North Carolina’s Medicaid reform proposals. NCPoliticalNews.com highlighted Way’s report on the costs for consumers of North Carolina’s renewable energy mandate. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press email Way’s renewable energy story, his article on the 2nd Congressional District Democratic primary, contributor Karen McMahan‘s profile of the Democratic primary in N.C. House District 60, and “Piedmont Publius” blogger Sam Hieb‘s report on the Democratic primary in N.C. House District 58.

A Carteret County News-Times letter writer cited CJ while discussing the impact of increased taxpayer spending on public schools. (In fact, the January issue of the John Locke Foundation Carolina Journal showed that the relationship between school spending and test results was weak. Some of the lowest-performing counties spent the highest amounts per student.)