In his latest TownHall.com column, John Locke Foundation Policy Analyst and Research Editor Jon Sanders discusses how a cap-and-trade scheme for carbon dioxide emissions would hurt families trying to pay their energy bills. In other news, the News & Observer‘s “Under the Dome” blog picked up Carolina Journal contributor Sarah Okeson‘s latest exclusive on the continuing controversy surrounding a top-level staffer ousted from the N.C. Treasurer’s office. Curtis Wright’s CarolinaTalkNetwork.com Web site also featured a CJ exclusive from Associate Editor David Bass that discussed legislation to provide new incentives for biotechnology companies. Meanwhile, Meck Deck blogger Jeff Taylor continues to set the agenda for mainstream media. His blog entry on the relative merits of a full-time versus a part-time Charlotte mayor preceded a Charlotte Observer article on the same topic. Charlotte’s Creative Loafing also cited Taylor’s work this week. (As Meckdeck.com blogger Jeff Taylor pointed out in July, it now appears that Raleigh has passed us as the jobs engine of the state.) Paul Chesser of Climate Strategies Watch used his latest American Spectator column to discuss a new film called “Not Evil, Just Wrong” that debunks global warming alarmism. In addition, a letter writer in the Lexington Dispatch praised the John Locke Foundation. (Here in North Carolina is located a political watchdog known as the John Locke Foundation that along with the Eagle Forum and several other notable groups and senators bring to all who care to “stay in touch” information on how to be heard concerning radical changes that continue to threaten our freedom from within.)
