The Mount Airy News mentioned a Carolina Journal article from contributor Sam Hieb this week while discussing the cash-strapped Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation. Meanwhile, an Asheville Citizen-Times letter writer cited a CJ column from N.C. State University economist Michael Walden while discussing federal entitlements. The Lincoln Tribune picked up CJ contributor Dan Way‘s article on a controversial solar energy project at Haywood Community College. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted contributor Karen McMahan‘s report on “cybersnooping” charges leveled against the N.C. Department of Insurance. The John Locke Foundation continues to attract attention because of media coverage of founding chairman and current board member Art Pope. News & Observer columnist Steve Ford mentioned JLF while taking a swipe at Pope, while syndicated columnist Scott Mooneyham offered a more thoughtful assessment of Pope’s role in North Carolina politics. Newspapers including the Asheboro Courier-Times, Butner-Creedmoor News, Goldsboro News-Argus, Greenville Daily Reflector, Lincoln Times-News, and Southern Pines Pilot published Mooneyham’s column. The Cato Institute has promoted video of Tom Palmer’s presentation this week to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society on the book The Morality of Capitalism. The Montgomery Herald also mentioned JLF while discussing a new job for former Locke staffer Ashley Sherrill.
