The editor’s column in the Asheboro Courier-Tribune highlighted recently the latest cover story in Carolina Journal‘s print edition. Executive Editor Don Carrington explained how a recent lawsuit settlement involving the N.C. Department of Justice did not amount to the victory state Attorney General Roy Cooper claimed in his self-promoting press release. (I picked up the latest edition of the Carolina Journal, a state publication produced by the conservative John Locke Foundation. … Its top headline read “AG’s ‘Consumer Win’ Just Pennies on Dollar: Investors in coastal real estate schemes stand to recover little.” The gist of it is that Cooper won a $2.28 million settlement with developers and marketers from two questionable developments on the N.C. Coast, but the end result would amount to only a couple of thousand apiece for the affected parties, some of whom may have lost more than $100,000.)

NCPoliticalNews.com promoted N.C. Education Alliance Fellow Kristen Blair‘s CJ column on media multitasking, along with columnist Andy Taylor‘s plea for fair implementation of the state’s new voter identification law.

N.C. Senate Republicans promoted that column in their daily press email, along with John Hood’s columns on Democrats’ increasing support for Obamacare delays, politicians’ impact on the sluggish economy, and the myth that North Carolina’s urban areas are faring well economically. The Senate GOP also highlighted Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s report on a charter school “Accelerator” program, Smith’s article detailing links between the N.C. Association of Educators and a proposed teacher “walk-in,” Associate Editor Dan Way‘s article on Obamacare’s implications for North Carolina’s State Health Plan, and Way’s report on the Health Plan’s efforts to limit taxpayer risk.

The Kernersville News published N.C. History Project Director Troy Kickler‘s column on North Carolina Founders‘ role during the Constitutional Convention. The Wilmington Star-News interviewed Mitch Kokai about the prospects for election redistricting reform in North Carolina.