Taxpayers have spent millions of dollars on competing state and federal surveys of “green jobs” in North Carolina and other states. Carolina Journal Executive Editor Don Carrington compared federal and state-level green jobs estimates for the Tar Heel State. His article on the topic attracted attention from N.C. Senate Republicans and SustainableEnergyJobs.com. Carrington discussed his green jobs research with Pete Kaliner on WWNC Radio. GOP senators. Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association, and the Crystal Coast Tea Party promoted Carrington’s article on the Republican Senate bid of a donor and “aircraft provider” for Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue. The May issue of Reason magazine revisited CJ Managing Editor Rick Henderson‘s 1996 article on government efforts to regulate the Internet. A Forbes.com column cited Associate Editor Sara Burrows‘ work on the Hoke County “chicken nuggets” controversy. The Pender Chronicle referenced Burrows’ recent article on game-fish legislation. The N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation and the Senate GOP promoted Associate Editor David Bass‘ article on key primary elections in North Carolina. Bass will discuss persuasion in political discourse during a presentation today for TeenPact. The Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association and lieutenant governor candidate Dan Forest’s website highlighted contributor Dan Way‘s article on concerns about Obama administration funding for immigration enforcement. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted Way’s report on a controversial student health center proposed for a Wake County high school, along with the CJ transcript of a radio interview with Wake Forest University political scientist John Dinan about states “talking back” to the federal government. The Rowan Free Press blog cited Piedmont Publius blogger Sam Hieb‘s CJ article on a dispute between Spencer and Salisbury over funding for Salisbury’s municipal broadband system. A new website for the Mercatus Center’s F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics promoted a recent CJ interview about pirate economics with George Mason economist Peter Leeson.