Viewers of the statewide N.C. Spin television program will hear again this week from John Locke Foundation Vice President for Outreach Becki Gray. Topics for this weekend’s program include the state budget, state Medicaid funding, and an analysis of the legislative short session. Gray also continues her semiweekly state politics and policy updates for WTSB Radio listeners.

Director of Communications Mitch Kokai discussed the week’s top state government news with Curtis Wright on WAAV/WFNC Radio, while Chad Adams of WLTT Radio welcomed N.C. History Project Director Troy Kickler to discuss his recent column on Wilmington native Robert Ruark. The Robert Ruark Society posted Kickler’s column on its website.

N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press emails Carolina Journal Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s articles on Gov. Beverly Perdue’s plea for Republicans to tweak their state budget plan and on a partisan feud surrounding a state Senate probe into controversial letters from the N.C. Department of Transportation.