Triangle radio listeners have had plenty of chances this week to hear the expertise of John Locke Foundation President John Hood. Today marks the third day in a row that Hood will serve as guest host from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on AM Talk Radio 850 WPTF. Hood’s guests Thursday included JLF Director of Education Studies Terry Stoops and Carolina Journal Associate Editor Barry Smith. Director of Fiscal Policy Studies Fergus Hodgson joins Hood this afternoon on WPTF.
In addition to radio, Charlotte-area television viewers saw Hood this week as he discussed his new book, Our Best Foot Forward, on WSOC. The Winston-Salem Journal quoted Hood in articles about former BB&T chief executive John Allison‘s move to the Cato Institute and about the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent health care ruling. (John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, a libertarian policy-research group in Raleigh, said the decision may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for Obama. Hood said that voters who dislike the mandate “now have no recourse but to vote for Mitt Romney to repeal it.”) The Lincoln Times-News also quoted Hood in a story about the Supreme Court case.
A Business North Carolina column cited Hood’s analysis of corporate taxation. (As conservative pundit John Hood wrote a couple of years ago, “The truth is that any officer of a corporation who fails to structure his business under the law to maximize profits and minimize tax liabilities is in violation of his responsibility to his shareholders.”)
N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press email Hood’s columns on turning North Carolina’s ship of state and revising the Racial Justice Act.
