The News & Observer‘s “WakeEd” blog cited this week JLF blog entries from Stoops and Right Angles blogger Donna Martinez. Both Stoops and Martinez commented on a Democratic Wake County school board member’s decision to swipe a microphone out of a Republican colleague’s hand during a public meeting.  

The Winston-Salem Journal sought Hood’s reaction to the Triad’s latest unemployment numbers. (John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, a libertarian policy research group, said the recent improvement in the job market suggests that North Carolina’s economy may continue its trend of slow, steady recovery. That’s better than a double-dip recession, obviously, but not particularly good news for the more than 400,000 North Carolinians who remain unemployed and the hundreds of thousands of additional workers who have given up looking for jobs or working part time while they search, Hood said.)

JLF Executive Vice President Kory Swanson and Vice President for Outreach Becki Gray traveled to Western Carolina University to speak to Young Americans for Liberty and College Republicans about “The Development of U.S. Constitutional Principles and How They Can Help Us Today.” Gray continues her semiweekly politics and public policy updates on WTSB Radio.

WTVD Television interviewed Director of Communications Mitch Kokai for stories about Gov. Beverly Perdue’s efforts to finalize in her remaining weeks in office the appointment of a new state Supreme Court justice and a deal to transform the Dorothea Dix property into a park. News 14 Carolina quoted Kokai for a story about the five-year anniversary of Charlotte’s LYNX light rail line. The Kernersville News published Kokai’s column about a not-so-taxing conversation.

The Rocky Mount Telegram used Hood’s column on the housing bubble as the hook for a “Speak Up” feature soliciting readers’ feedback on that topic. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press email Hood’s column on North Carolina’s “weird” governance structure for public education.

GOP senators also highlighted Stoops’ column on public school graduation rates across the country, CJ Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s article on the McCrory election’s potential impact on state education policy, and Piedmont Publius blogger Sam Hieb‘s report on Republicans’ historic gains in the most recent county commissioner elections across North Carolina.

Speaking of Hieb, the Greensboro News & Record‘s “Mixing It Up” column cited his recent observations about the dismantling of Miami’s major league baseball team.