N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press emails this week John Locke Foundation Chairman John Hood‘s columns on N.C. economic growth and the ongoing political impact of former governors Jim Hunt and Jim Martin. The Lumberton Robesonian and NCPoliticalNews.com promoted Carolina Journal Publisher Jon Ham‘s latest “Media Mangle” column on Washington journalists allowing the Obama administration to review and edit their work.

Becki Gray addressed the North Raleigh Kitchen Table Conservatives this week. N.C. History Project Founding Director Troy Kickler discussed during a presentation for Raleigh’s Exploris Middle School students the NorthCarolinaHistory.org website and the history of Lunsford Lane, a slave who purchased his freedom and started successful businesses.