The Gaston Gazette called on Michael Sanera, John Locke Foundation Director of Research and Local Government Studies, for an article discussing local elected officials’ compensation. N.C. Senate Republicans, the Lincoln Tribune, and the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” all promoted Director of Health and Fiscal Policy Studies Joseph Coletti‘s analysis of the new state budget. N.C. Senate Republicans also promoted a report from Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies, supporting the concept of disruptive innovation in public education. The Asheville Tribune promoted the John Locke Foundation’s new City & County Issue Guide 2011, while a Waynesville Mountaineer article referenced Carolina Journal coverage of that issue guide. (Commissioner Kevin Ensley said he recently read an article in the “Carolina Journal,” the flagship publication of the John Locke Foundation, a conservative think tank. The author addressed the steps local governments need to take to reduce costs, Ensley said. He noted nearly all the suggestions made were ones Haywood County has already taken — some of them
several years ago.) The Voice of Russia Radio Network posted its interview with Daren Bakst on the history of forced sterilization in North Carolina.