During his latest appearance on News 14 Carolina’s statewide “Capital Tonight” program, Carolina Journal Associate Editor Barry Smith tackled topics such as N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger‘s announcement that he will not run for the U.S. Senate in 2014. Managing Editor Rick Henderson appears on Curtis Media Group’s “People In Politics” program this weekend to discuss employers’ interest in private health insurance exchanges as an alternative to Obamacare. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted Associate Editor Dan Way‘s reports on the opening of Campbell University’s new school for osteopathic medicine and the future of North Carolina’s community health centers.
John Locke Foundation Director of Communications Mitch Kokai discussed Berger’s electoral decision with Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel. The Asheville Citizen-Times interviewed Kokai for an article about the demise of the Occupy movement across North Carolina. Kokai spent two afternoons addressing N.C. State’s university scholars on the key achievements of the 2013 legislative session. He discussed the week’s top state government news during his latest appearance with Curtis Wright on WMYT Radio.
The Laurinburg Exchange recently highlighted the positive online transparency grade JLF assigned to the Scotland County public school system. (The Scotland County’ Schools website was recently awarded a top transparency rating from the John Locke Foundation. Of the 115 school district websites within the state that were graded, Scotland County Schools was one of only five to receive the ‘A’ rating.) The front page of the Reason Foundation’s summer Reason Report newsletter mentioned JLF while highlighting founding chairman Art Pope and North Carolina’s “deep reforms.”
