Amid the election news, the John Locke Foundation also attracted attention for other reasons this week. The News & Observer of Raleigh turned to Education Policy Analyst Terry Stoops for his expertise on efforts to improve North Carolina schools. The East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Arizona, cited JLF research linked to gas prices. And Carolina Journal Editor Richard Wagner heard good news about his efforts to expose violations of property rights. New York agent John Talbot has signed on to promote Wagner’s nonfiction book, Widow and the Wilderness: The Kay McClanahan Story. As Wagner notes: “The book is a personal, dramatic narrative about South Carolina’s Kay McClanahan, who formed a property rights association with a community of African-Americans to fight government’s regulatory takings of their land in the name of ‘Smart Growth.'”
