Editor Alan Wooten has better thoughts: "We’re in the middle of the summer we couldn’t have last year, with outings and festivities back in place. We’re meeting and greeting, most…
The Bladen County Board of Education hired assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction Dr. Jason Atkinson to be the district’s next superintendent. The board failed to conduct a superintendent search…
Recently, a panel of judges in Richmond, Virginia heard oral arguments in the case, Joyce McKiver, et. al. v. Murphy-Brown, LLC. As Alan Wooten explains in his recent Bladen Journal…
While Terry Stoops was discussing Common Core during his latest television appearance, one of the N.C. Senate’s top education leaders cited Stoops’ work on Common Core in a letter circulated…
A recent Bloomberg Businessweek profile of N.C. deputy budget director Art Pope referenced his longstanding connection to the John Locke Foundation. The article highlighted John Hood’s prominent role in North…
Both the online and print versions of the News & Observer‘s “Under the Dome” blog featured an item about donors funding the John Locke Foundation’s upcoming 22nd anniversary dinner. The…
State revenue numbers show a windfall. And with the “temporary tax hike” still in effect, don’t count on any tax relief by state legislators, says JLF fiscal policy analyst, Joe…
When Hurricane Floyd hit eastern North Carolina in 1999, Richard Wagner was editor of The Free Press in Kinston. In a Carolina Beat commentary, he recalled that while Carolinians went…
John Hood was a guest on WAAV-AM in Wilmington earlier this week for a discussion of the state budget, the potential for a state lottery, lobbying reform, and housing regulation.…
Last week after WPTF-AM morning show host Kevin Miller participated in a discussion of 2004’s top stories on NBC 17’s “At Issue,” he invited co-host Donna Martinez to do the…
Upcoming appointments to the Supreme Court have the potential to turn the tide against a variety of actions and funding not sanctioned by the Constitution, wrote JLF adjunct scholar George…