The Wake Forest Weekly printed a guest editorial from Carolina Journal focusing on the impact of health insurance rate increases tied to the federal health care law. (More than three years after Obamacare became law, finally we know what’s in it. Sort of. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the 2014 rates for health insurance policies on the federal exchange in late September, days before individuals were allowed to enroll in the plan, and North Carolinians took a shot to the jaw: According to calculations by the Manhattan Institute, residents of the Tar Heel State will endure the nation’s highest rate increases, with individual rates tripling for women and quadrupling for men. There’s nothing affordable about the Affordable Care Act.)

NCPoliticalNews.com promoted CJ Associate Editor Dan Way‘s report on Obamacare’s potential impact on North Carolina local governments, community colleges, and universities. NCPoliticalNews.com also highlighted Carolina Journal Radio Co-Host Donna Martinez‘s CJ column on the role conservatives should play in improving public education.

N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press email Way’s report on Obamacare’s potential North Carolina impact, Associate Editor Barry Smith‘s article on an audit of the state’s virtual public school, and John Hood’s columns on recent stagnation in North Carolina’s education gains, a reality check for liberals, and the need for a North Carolina “reading revolution.”