State lawmakers have no need to rush into creating new health insurance exchanges linked to the federal health care reform law. Joseph Coletti shared that opinion in an op-ed column published one week ago in the Fayetteville Observer. Jon Sanders’ latest TownHall.com column explains for President Obama why leading is harder than dictating. The Richmond County Daily Journal published a column from Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation Director of Legal and Regulatory Studies, on North Carolina’s renewable energy mandates. The N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press email cited this week a 2009 JLF report spelling out problems associated with taxpayer-funded high-speed rail projects.