The John Locke Foundation’s new glossary of government planning jargon earned a top-of-the-page headline in the News & Observer‘s”Triangle Politics” section Saturday. Glossary author Michael Sanera, JLF Director of Research and Local Government Studies, must be the chief “Locke linguist.” WTVD Television also interviewed Sanera this week on a new poll that purported to show Triangle residents would support higher taxes to improve public transit services. In other news, Daren Bakst, Director of Legal and Regulatory Studies, reached audiences at WRAL.com, The Charlotte Observer, Wilmington Star-News, Greenville Daily Reflector, Rocky Mount Telegram, Hendersonville Times-News, MyNC.com, and MLive.com with his comments to the Associated Press about the future of the N.C. Legislative Commission on Global Climate Change. Bakst also attracted attention this week for his work on forced annexation. Freedom Newspapers, including the Burlington Times-News, interviewed him about the topic. Cape Fear Business News published both the press release associated with Bakst’s latest report on the topic and a column Bakst wrote on the issue. Examiner.com’s Raleigh Libertarian Examiner both previewed and covered Bakst’s annexation speech to the JLF Shaftesbury Society. LibertyPoint.org also previewed the speech, and the Wake County Libertarian Party Web site reported the speech’s contents. Meanwhile, the Greenville Daily Reflector interviewed Jon Sanders, Associate Director of Research, about proposed reforms to the state’s government-run system of alcoholic beverage sales. The Jefferson Daily Post has reprinted two research staffers’ opinion columns in recent weeks. Roy Cordato, Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar, assessed the impact of North Carolina’s Clean Smokestacks Bill. Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies, explained why a recent controversy involving North Carolina’s public school history curriculum fits with the state’s focus on “21st Century Skills.” The World Online Health Review Web site recently featured a video of Joseph Coletti‘s health-care presentation to a Campbell University audience. Coletti, JLF Director of Health Care and Fiscal Policy Studies, participated in Campbell’s Politics, Law, and Economics Lecture Series. Speaking of Coletti, a blogger associated with the Illinois Alliance for Growth praised his work on an alternative budget for the Illinois Policy Institute.