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On the road, other items of interest
In addition to her latest television appearance, Becki Gray discussed top legislative news this week in a presentation to the Garner Morning Rotary Club and during her latest chat with…
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newspaper in Salisbury, North Carolina
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An Obama critique, Mary Easley’s sweetheart deal, and other items of interest
Wilmington-area radio listeners heard John Locke Foundation Vice President for Communications Jon Ham discuss gun control, President Obama’s new cabinet appointments, and the president’s attitude toward government overspending during Ham’s…
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Carbon taxes, Durham crime, transparency, and other items of interest
Websites for WRAL Television, the News & Observer, and the Fayetteville Observer all highlighted John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research Roy Cordato‘s participation in the Heartland Institute’s letter campaign…
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JLF experts in demand as election season winds down
John Locke Foundation President John Hood earned extra media air time this week as the 2012 election season entered its closing stages. Hood discussed the elections during an appearance on…
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Our Best Foot Forward, new disclosure rules, and other items of interest
The Salisbury Post promoted this week John Hood’s upcoming appearance at the Rowan County Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. Hood will read excerpts from his latest book, Our Best Foot…
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Other items of interest
A News & Observer editorial on the Wake County transit plan cited the John Locke Foundation’s critique of that proposal, while a letter writer in the N&O praised JLF as…
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Rowan County: School Board bans “Sex-based” Clubs.
This article in the Salisbury Post seems interesting, it caught my eye when Jennifer Rudinger of the ACLU said: “We (the ACLU) have successfully represented students who wanted to have…
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The Cost of Education
As federal government grows more intimate with public schools through national benchmarks linked to funding (NCLB, et. al), many worry about the possibility of the federal government extending its reach…
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Just listen to the sustain-ability
This is one of those cases where I must rush to assure the reader up front that this is not a parody. From the Salisbury Post comes a story about…
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Government surveillance takes a new direction
This story out of the Salisbury Post has to be read in its (lengthy) entirety to be believed. As also reported in briefing in a piece linked to our Carolina…
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If it?s Tuesday, it?s headline-hunting time
Here?s a sample of today?s bountiful catch of engaging headlines, this one from the McDowell News in Marion: ?Speaking nerd lands man a book deal? Meanwhile, over at the Shelby…
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More unfortunate headlines
Latest from the unfortunate headline department: ?Future of quarter midget race track still uncertain? Salisbury Post today. Insert whatever size joke you wish, but try to keep it on the…