The News & Observer‘s “WakeEd” blog cited analysis from Terry Stoops, John Locke Foundation Director of Education Studies, about a controversial recent meeting between newly elected Democratic members of the Wake County school board and a consultant who had developed a proposed student assignment plan for the Wake school district. Roy Cordato, Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar, discussed Gov. Bev Perdue’s proposed sales-tax increase during his latest appearance with Chad Adams on the WLTT Radio morning program. The Daily Tar Heel quoted Cordato in an article about North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law. The Charlotte Observer reports that N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis will invite JLF to speak at a Feb. 1 forum in Charlotte on compensation for victims of forced sterilization in North Carolina. Daren Bakst, Director of Legal and Regulatory Studies, has led Locke Foundation efforts on that issue. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted a recent column from Fergus Hodgson, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, on North Carolina’s multibillion-dollar unemployment insurance debt. Hodgson discussed libertarian tax policy as a guest lecturer for a class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hodgson chatted with Louisiana’s WGSO Radio about presidential candidate Ron Paul. The State Policy Network promoted Associate Director of Research Jon Sanders‘ recent blog entry on Newsweek‘s latest silly cover.