The New Republic‘s blog cited John Hood this week in an entry about conservative reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the federal health care case. Meanwhile, the News & Observer interviewed John Locke Foundation
Director of Education Studies Terry Stoops for an article about multiple
federal civil rights investigations of the Wake County public schools. The Greensboro News & Record‘s “Off The Record” blog promoted Piedmont Publius blogger Sam Hieb‘s Carolina Journal article on government obstacles blocking North Carolina exports.

The Bertie Ledger-Advance cited Fergus Hodgson in an article about North Carolina’s multibillion-dollar debt to the federal government for unemployment insurance benefits. (“A higher tax burden would further dissuade offers of employment when the North Carolina labor market is already fractured and the rate of labor force participation is one of the lowest in the nation,” said Fergus Hodgson, an analyst studying the unemployment insurance question at the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh.)

The Richmond County Daily Journal published Director of Research and Local Government Studies Michael Sanera‘s column about job-creating federal stimulus dollars that paid for labor-saving “smart trash cans” in Raleigh. The Master Resource free-market energy blog cited Roy Cordato’s work on the misguided concept of “energy efficiency.”

N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press emails cited Barry Smith’s articles on Gov. Beverly Perdue’s budget veto, legislative efforts to override three Perdue vetoes, and legislation pitting Blue Cross Blue Shield against other insurance providers. The Senate GOP also promoted Rick Henderson’s column on abolishing state boards and commissions, Becki Gray’s column on the problems associated with North Carolina’s status quo, and Hieb’s report on export obstacles.