The Gaston Gazette and the Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” publicized this week John Locke Foundation Policy Analyst Michael Lowrey‘s latest By The Numbers report on local government tax burdens. The Laurinburg Exchange reported that the Scotland County manager cited BTN when delivering a recent county economic forecast. Meanwhile, WPTF Radio interviewed Terry Stoops, JLF Director of Education Studies, about the amount of money N.C. taxpayers spend to educate students in public schools. Fergus Hodgson, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, testified before a state House committee on raw milk legislation. Hodgson dissected Rep. Bill Faison’s tax-based jobs plan in an article for La Conexion. The Richmond County Daily Journal published a column from Michael Sanera, Director of Research and Local Government Studies, on smart growth in Davidson. David Hartgen discussed his recent JLF report on the Wake County Transit Plan during a presentation to the Triangle Community Coalition.