In addition to his Wilmington-area radio appearance, Daren Bakst enlightened News & Observer opinion page readers with a letter rebutting one of the newspaper’s editorials. Bakst discussed the problems linked to local governments’ misuse of taxpayer dollars to promote sales-tax referendums. A month after Bakst submitted comments (PDF) to the U.S. Justice Department supporting provisions in North Carolina’s new annexation law, he learned that Justice Department attorneys planned to raise no objections (PDF) to that new law. The Womble Carlyle law firm’s N.C. Appellate blog noted Bakst’s role in derailing the matching-funds provision of Chapel Hill’s taxpayer-financed election campaign program. The Heartland Institute’s 6th International Conference on Climate Change website promoted a speech from Roy Cordato, Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar. Fergus Hodgson, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, devoted his latest Future of Freedom Foundation commentary to nanny-state efforts to tax your diet. The national SchoolChoiceWeek.com website highlighted Terry Stoops, Director of Education Studies.