John Locke Foundation President John Hood continues to generate media interest for his recent collaboration with the head of the N.C. Coastal Federation. They both oppose a legislative measure to reverse North Carolina’s ban on terminal groins. The News & Observer‘s “Under The Dome” picked up Hood’s latest comments on the issue online and in the print edition. The Wilmington Star-News “Cape Fear Watchdogs” blog also took note, as did the Swansboro Tideland News and Environmental Economics website. On other topics, Hood recently discussed North Carolina’s judicial election process with Tom Lamprecht on WTIB Radio. He offered the Greensboro News & Record analysis of a proposal to eliminate the state’s Alcohol Law Enforcement agency. Mountain Xpress quoted Hood in an article this week about redistricting reform. A recent Morganton News Herald editorial quoted Hood while discussing Burke County’s budget debate. (The fact is, pointing fingers and assigning blame won’t do any good. Neither will “debating yesterday’s issues, using yesterday’s language and defending yesterday’s conventional wisdom,” to quote John Hood, whose column today has a similar theme.) Elon University’s E-Net! Headlines cited Hood’s column this week on a proposed state Sunshine Amendment. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted the same column in one of their daily press emails. The GOP also promoted Hood’s columns on the John Locke Foundation’s public policy influence, conservatives as “cat people,” and three tests for any potential government action.