Carolina Journal’s work attracts attention and other items of interest

The Kernersville News published Becki Gray’s recent Carolina Journal column on the perils of Medicaid expansion. The N.C. Spin website and NCPoliticalNews.com promoted Carolina Journal Radio Co-Host Donna Martinez‘s column on conservatives’ role in boosting public education. NCPoliticalNews.com also highlighted CJ Associate Editor Dan Way‘s report on legislative sparring over a recent Medicaid audit.

N.C. Senate Republicans promoted in their daily press email Martinez’s column, Way’s article on the Medicaid audit discussion, and his reports on a proposal to shift responsibility for Wake County school construction, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina’s scramble to restore canceled health insurance policies, and interest in a state version of a regulatory reform called a REINS Act.

GOP senators also highlighted John Locke Foundation President John Hood‘s columns on the pedigree of North Carolina’s recent conservative reforms and the need to change the presidential primary system. The Greensboro News & Record quotes Hood in a column about a former Republican congressman from South Carolina who has joined the ranks of those concerned about global warming. (John Hood, president of the conservative John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, said he has met [Bob] Inglis. “I think he believes what he is saying,” Hood said. “This isn’t some kind of publicity stunt. But the drift of politics is not in his favor.” Hood also took issue with those who write off climate-change skeptics as “stupid and uninformed.” “In my opinion,” Hood said, “the lack of consensus is utterly rational.”)

The Shelby Star highlighted JLF’s NCTransparency.com website in an article about the Cleveland County school systems’ online transparency efforts. (The John Locke Foundation originally gave Cleveland County Schools a D for transparency. Other nearby school systems received similar scores. However, after The Star looked into the scores for a story this past week school leaders say they submitted new information to the Locke Foundation. The schools’ score has now been changed to an A.)

Carolina Journal‘s latest parody prompted a letter to the editor of the Lexington Dispatch. CJ Publisher Jon Ham followed up with his own letter to clear up any confusion about the fact or fiction of a proposal to provide Navigator vehicles for Obamacare navigators.