Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson will join Bill LuMaye on WPTF Radio this afternoon to discuss CJ‘s top stories this week, along with major developments in North Carolina electoral politics. Henderson continues to offer a weekly electoral update for Curtis Media Group’s syndicated “People In Politics” program.
Speaking of radio, John Locke Foundation Vice President for Outreach Becki Gray provides twice-weekly politics and public policy updates on WTSB. Director of Communications Mitch Kokai discussed the week’s major state government developments with Curtis Wright on WMYT.
The Mount Airy News published Henderson’s recent column on the misguided goal of boosting public school teacher pay to the “national average.” A Randolph Guide columnist cited Gray’s recent analysis of North Carolina’s economic recovery. (Becki Gray, the vice president for outreach at the John Locke Foundation, has written a particularly optimistic assessment of things in the most recent Carolina Journal. She calls 2014 “the year of recovery.”) The N.C. Spin website highlighted her “Locker Room” blog entry on a “pep rally” from President Obama.
N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press email the transcript of Gray’s recent Carolina Journal Radio interview on the work of legislative study committees. The Senate GOP also cited CJ Associate Editor Dan Way‘s report on a legal challenge to changes in North Carolina’s teacher tenure law, contributor Jenna Ashley Robinson‘s report on concerns surrounding a new student data collection program, a press release for JLF’s new City and County Issue Guide, and Mitch Kokai’s column on mainstream media outlets’ misreading of state tax reform analysis.
An Associated Press article on the McCrory administration’s new N.C. GEAR project mentioned that project director Joe Coletti is a former John Locke Foundation analyst.
