Both the Gaston Gazette and Shelby Star published an article quoting Daren Bakst on the castle doctrine. (“The castle doctrine is not about the walls in the castle, it’s about the people in the castle,” said Daren Bakst, director of legal and regulatory studies for the John Locke Foundation. “It’s about family members. We want people to be able to protect their spouses and their children.”) The Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” promoted the latest state budget proposals from Joseph Coletti. The Heartland Institute’s Health Care News also quoted Coletti for an article about efforts to crack down on drug companies’ use of social media to promote their products. The Salisbury Post cited the John Locke Foundation and its NCTransparency.com efforts in an article about a transparency dispute involving the Rowan-Salisbury school board. The Richmond County Daily Journal published Terry Stoops’ recent column on repealing and replacing defective high school end-of-course tests.