The N.C. Spin website publicized Becki Gray’s column on the state renewable energy mandate, Rick Henderson’s column critiquing the state House budget plan, and John Locke Foundation Director of Communications Mitch Kokai‘s “Locker Room” blog entry on the dwindling prospects for federal tax reform. Gray discussed the latest developments at the N.C. Legislative Building in a speech to the Fayetteville Republican Women’s Club.

NCPoliticalNews.com promoted Carolina Journal Associate Editor Dan Way‘s article on the big business tied to “green” tax credits. N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press email highlighted Way’s article, Gray’s renewable mandate column, and JLF Chairman John Hood‘s columns on Republican intraparty debates and Medicaid reform.

A Charlotte Observer column on overcriminalization in North Carolina featured a CJ photo. The Heritage Foundation’s “Insider Online” blog promoted this week’s JLF Shaftesbury Society speech from Campbell University professor and Johnston County school board member Peggy Smith.