The Wake County school board says goodbye today to member Beverley Clark, who’s resigning from her board seat. The News & Observer asked John Locke Foundation Education Policy Analyst Terry Stoops for his reaction to Clark’s departure. Speaking of leaving, state lawmakers left Raleigh this week without taking any final action on annexation reform. News 14 Carolina interviewed communications director Mitch Kokai about the forced annexation debate. Before they left town, legislators dealt with legislation designed to shore up North Carolina’s Beach Plan coastal property insurance program. The Tryon Daily Bulletin recently reprinted Carolina Journal contributor Karen Welsh‘s article on that topic. Meanwhile, Senate Republicans mentioned in Thursday’s e-mail blast a CJ exclusive from Sarah Okeson dealing with the economic slump’s impact on North Carolina’s state employee pension plan. An editorial in Sunday’s Herald-Sun quoted Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato‘s views on the Obama administration’s efforts to stimulate the economy. (Roy Cordato, an economist and vice president for research at the John Locke Foundation, offers another reason to be worried. “The state’s continuing struggles with unprecedented unemployment offer more proof that the federal government has done nothing to stimulate the economy,” Cordato said.) In other news, the Monroe Enquirer-Journal recently published Program Associate Michael Moore‘s Carolina Beat column about promoting liberty. In his role as a Right Angles blogger, JLF Vice President for Communications Jon Ham attracted attention from the Durham Herald-Sun this week for a blog post discussing crime in the Trinity Park neighborhood.
