The John Locke Foundation helped sponsor an international conference on climate change earlier this week in New York City. At least one conference speaker referenced the recent debate JLF co-sponsored between William Schlesinger and John Christy, and more than one speaker referenced the work of Paul Chesser and Climate Strategies Watch. Chesser discusses mainstream media coverage of the New York event in his latest article for the American Spectator. Speaking of conferences, Carolina Journal Executive Editor Don Carrington has shared his expertise this week in a Civitas Institute conference focusing on investigative journalism training. In other news, Carolina Journal Radio co-host Donna Martinez earned some national attention this week, when the Weekly Standard‘s blog linked to her Right Angles blog entry on free speech issues at N.C. State University. Meanwhile, a letter writer to the Wilson Daily Times recently included a favorable citation of a JLF report — co-authored by Research Director and Local Government Analyst Michael Sanera and Research Intern Katie Bethune — that critiqued Wilson’s city-owned fiber-optic cable network. (As far as the Cable system is concerned, I hope everyone will
read the analysis by the John Locke Foundation. It offers examples of what has happened to other community owned systems and what may be down the road for the city taxpayer.) When he wasn’t discussing the state’s budget woes, John Hood offered comments to the Fayetteville Observer for an article about the potential political impact of N.C. Sen. Larry Shaw’s newly publicized relationship with a controversial Islamic group.