The Forbes feature titled “The Apothecary” highlighted this week research from John Locke Foundation Health and Human Services Policy Analyst Katherine Restrepo, who co-authored a piece on the Obamacare exchange “enrollment derby.” The Laurinburg Exchange and Yadkin Ripple published Restrepo’s recent column on the “vanishing” Obamacare mandate.
Both the News & Observer and the Greensboro News & Record‘s “Chalkboard” blog published a letter from state Sen. Jerry Tillman, R-Randolph, that credited JLF Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops for the idea of setting up a new state commission to study Common Core standards. The Lumberton Robesonian picked up Stoops’ recent column calling for a continuing conversation about boosting state teacher pay. Stoops discusses the upcoming legislative session during a presentation Saturday for the FreedomWorks group in Franklin.
The Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” promoted Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Sarah Curry‘s recent report questioning a proposed occupancy tax increase for Haywood County. Curry recorded a podcast interview with the Heartland Institute on the occupancy tax report.
A High Point Enterprise column cited information from a JLF study on juvenile justice. (Citing the costs of such a revolving door criminal justice system, a 2011 study, “Improving Juvenile Justice: Finding More Effective Options for North Carolina’s Young Offenders,” commissioned by the conservative John Locke Foundation, calculated the likely savings of raising the age of juvenile jurisdiction in North Carolina to be $52.3 million.)
The Taylorsville Times featured a recent candidate profile citing the John Locke Foundation’s ranking of Alexander County in the annual By The Numbers report on local tax-and-fee burdens. (“We did all of this and were ranked by the conservative John Locke Foundation as having the lowest effective tax rate of all 100 counties in North Carolina — every year we were in office.”)
