The recent federal health-care reform legislation could mean bad news for North Carolina’s high-risk health insurance pool. Joseph Coletti, John Locke Foundation Director of Health and Fiscal Policy Studies, explained the potential impact during an appearance this week with Tara Servatius on WBT Radio. N.C. Senate Republicans also promoted Coletti’s analysis of the governor’s “gimmick-based” budget. The Beaufort Observer noted that analysis as well. Daren Bakst, Director of Legal and Regulatory Studies, joined Bill LuMaye Thursday on WPTF Radio to outline the problems associated with the work of the N.C. Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change. A recent GlobalWarming.org post from Bakst focused on efforts to secure backing from big corporations for federal cap-and-trade restrictions. One week ago, the impact report previewed a WTVD Television story about North Carolina’s “High School Turnaround” program featuring comments from Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies. Watch that story here. Meanwhile, WRAL Television did not interview Stoops but used his research in a story this week about the double standard state education bureaucrats are applying to traditional public schools and public charter schools. (While the WRAL website cited the John Locke Foundation as the source of its information, the on-air broadcast substituted the words “one group” for “John Locke Foundation.”) Speaking of Stoops, an opinion column this week in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader cited his work on teacher pay. The Jefferson Review republished that column. Meanwhile, a letter writer in the Jacksonville Daily News cited Policy Analyst Michael Lowrey‘s annual By The Numbers report.