The Lumberton Robesonian, N.C. Spin website, NCPoliticalNews.com, and N.C. Senate Republicans all took note of Becki Gray’s Carolina Journal column focusing on the state’s Medicaid reform debate. The Laurinburg Exchange published Gray’s column on overcriminalization in North Carolina.

The Winston-Salem Journal quoted Mitch Kokai in an article about state laws surrounding drones. The Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog promoted JLF’s Shaftesbury Society speech Monday on the commercial use of drones in North Carolina. Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel interviewed Kokai about the debate over freezing North Carolina’s renewable energy mandate.

NCPoliticalNews.com promoted CJ Executive Editor Don Carrington‘s article on Alcoa‘s recent win over state government in a battle involving licensing of hydroelectric dams on the Yadkin River, along with contributor Andy Taylor‘s column on religious changes within the Republican Party. The N.C. Spin website cited Associate Editor Dan Way‘s article on the politics and principles of the certificate-of-need debate.

The Kernersville News published Way’s column on Washington, D.C., bureaucrats’ plans for “our kids,” along with N.C. History Project Director Troy Kickler‘s column on N.C. bnajo pioneer Charlie Poole. N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press email featured JLF Chairman John Hood‘s column analyzing details of North Carolina’s employment picture,
Taylor’s column on religion and the GOP, CJ Managing Editor Rick Henderson‘s column on the latest developments in the state budget debate, Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s report on distillery regulations, and Smith’s story on the prospect of retention elections for N.C. Supreme Court.