A recent Bloomberg Businessweek profile of N.C. deputy budget director Art Pope referenced his longstanding connection to the John Locke Foundation. The article highlighted John Hood’s prominent role in North Carolina’s public policy debates and discussed JLF’s efforts to expose wasteful boondoggles and corruption linked to projects such as Roanoke Rapids’ former Randy Parton Theatre. Speaking of Hood, the Beaufort Observer cited a column that mentions his analysis of questionable community college job training programs.
A column on property taxes in the Greensboro News & Record‘s “Thinking Out Loud” blog mentioned the John Locke Foundation’s efforts to document tax burdens. The Bladen Journal published Meck Deck blogger Michael Lowrey‘s column about Charlotte’s poor negotiation tactics in its dealings with the Carolina Panthers.
The Independent Weekly quoted JLF Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops in an article about conservative education reforms. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted Stoops’ column on Gov. Pat McCrory’s prospects for reshaping the N.C. State Board of Education.
The Senate GOP also highlighted Carolina Journal Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s articles on a proposed voter identification bill and a recent audit documenting illegal payments to a top staffer at N.C. Central University.
