The Jefferson Post cited Carolina Journal Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s recent article on efforts to loosen state control of alcohol sales at N.C. distilleries. NCPoliticalNews.com promoted Smith’s article on the struggles of a charter school serving disabled students, along with Associate Editor Dan Way‘s articles on a court case involving school records in Alamance County and a recommendation to create a new state occupational licensing oversight agency. The Beaufort Observer analyzed Way’s article on a controversial new student data mining system.
N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press emails cited Way’s Alamance school records article, Smith’s article on a proposal to boost funding for scholarships targeting special-needs students, CJ contributor Sam Hieb‘s report on bills that would change local elected boards in Wake County and Greensboro, and John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood‘s columns on election rule changes and the need to rebuild state budget reserve accounts.
The Charlotte Observer picked up a WFAE Radio story quoting Director of Communications Mitch Kokai on the lack of transparency surrounding legislative “blank bills.” The Kernersville News published his column on a recent book profiling 20th-century British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel interviewed Kokai about U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz‘s entry into the 2016 presidential race and his upcoming April 13 speech for the John Locke Foundation. “Carolina Connections” radio program interviewed Kokai about the University of North Carolina’s budget.
