Readers of Reason magazine and Reason‘s “Hit & Run” blog had access this week to John Locke Foundation President John Hood‘s article “Laboratories of Prosperity,” which emphasizes state-level public policies that are more likely to foster economic growth. A Forbes columnist cited Hood’s work.
Business North Carolina interviewed Hood about the potential sale of the North Carolina Railroad, while the Charlotte Business Journal sought his expert analysis of the political implications surrounding Duke Energy’s recent coal ash spill near the Dan River. (“I think the main political loser is Duke,” said John Hood, president of the right-leaning John Locke Foundation. “The nest has been fouled by the circumstances of the merger (with Progress Energy Inc. in 2012). To think those wounds have healed — there’s a lot of suspicion about Duke on the right and the left.”)
The Wilson Daily Times quoted Hood in an article about North Carolina’s latest employment numbers. (John Hood, John Locke Foundation president, said that recently released unemployment figures reflect signs of growing strength in the North Carolina economy. The rate of job growth has increased since July, when extended federal unemployment insurance benefits ended in the state, he said.) The Richmond County Daily Journal reprinted a JLF news release featuring Hood’s analysis of the same employment data. A Laurinburg Exchange letter writer cited Hood’s recent discussion of the so-called Moral Monday movement. N.C. Senate Republicans promoted Hood’s column on the competitiveness of Wake County’s legislative election districts.
