The Greensboro News & Record‘s “Off The Record” editor’s blog noted this week John Locke Foundation President John Hood’s suggestion that North Carolina adopt “Teachable Tuesdays” as a corrective to the misguided “Moral Mondays” legislative protests. Hood’s proposal would feature weekly instruction on the role of free speech in a constitutional republic. The News & Record also published Hood’s recent review of an interesting North Carolina historical novel.
Meanwhile, the Charlotte Business Journal quoted Hood in an article about the dubious notion that Republican legislators are engaging in a “war” against North Carolina’s local governments. (Other conservatives dismiss the debate as something only politicians, their operatives, lobbyists and the media care about. John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, a right-leaning Raleigh think tank, says the legislature has, in most of the bills and issues cited as interfering in local government, chosen sides among several local governments. In other words, one local government’s meddling is another local government’s solution.) The Charlotte Business Journal also interviewed Hood about efforts to end the state’s renewable energy mandate.
An Associated Press article picked up by WRAL and WSOC television, the News & Observer, Winston-Salem Journal, Wilmington Star-News, Asheville Citizen-Times, Greenville Daily Reflector, Goldsboro News-Argus, Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, and Hendersonville Times-News quoted Hood’s concerns about the state Senate’s tax reform plan.
The N&O‘s “Under the Dome” blog and a Lenoir News-Topic editorial highlighted Hood’s conservative case for more road spending. The Washington Free Beacon interviewed Hood for a profile of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx‘s likely impact as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation.
A Martin County Enterprise columnist noted Hood’s recent participation in the N.C. Press Association’s recent Newspaper Academy in Chapel Hill. (The other instructor was John Hood, president and chairman of the John Locke Foundation. In addition to a long list of accomplishments, he writes a syndicated column for more than 50 newspapers.) N.C. Senate Republicans promoted Hood’s columns this week on “Teachable Tuesdays” and the pivotal next two weeks of the current North Carolina legislative session.
