The John Locke Foundation’s NCTransparency.com website, overseen by Director of Health and Fiscal Policy Studies Joseph Coletti, attracted media attention in two different communities in the past week. After a Carteret County News-Times letter writer cited the transparency site’s D grade for Carteret public schools, school leaders contacted Coletti about recent additions to their online information. Coletti’s updated, improved grade for Carteret schools attracted attention from News 14 Carolina and CrystalCoastParent.com. Meanwhile, a pair of Salisbury Post articles also noted JLF’s transparency efforts. One focused on the Salisbury city manager’s high salary. The other covered the Rowan-Salisbury school board’s discussion of transparency issues. In addition to transparency, Coletti discussed the latest By The Numbers report during an appearance with Lockwood Phillips on WTKF’s “Viewpoints Radio.” Policy Analyst Michael Lowrey authored BTN, which also attracted attention from the Wilmington Star-News “Cape Fear Watchdogs” blog and from N.C. Senate Republicans in their daily press e-mail. GOP Republicans also highlighted a recent column from Roy Cordato, Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar, discussing the need to scrap North Carolina’s corporate income tax. Wilmington-area radio listeners heard Cordato discuss nuclear power controversies and crony capitalism during an appearance with guest host Francis De Luca on the WLTT morning show. A Yes!Weekly report on NAACP plans to protest a Civitas Institute-sponsored budget workshop for the Winston-Salem/Forsyth school board noted the participation of Terry Stoops, JLF Director of Education Studies. N.C. Senate Republicans’ daily press e-mail highlighted the transcript of a Carolina Journal Radio interview with Stoops on efforts to lift the charter school cap. The Senate GOP also promoted a guest Daily Journal column from Jon Sanders, Associate Director of Research, on the Founders’ efforts to protect our freedoms. Sanders’ latest TownHall.com column focused on the disastrous economics espoused in the wake of natural disasters such as the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami.