John Locke Updates: 2004

This weekend marks the end of NBC 17’s special pre-election coverage featuring Donna Martinez and her “At Issue” colleagues framing issues for local and statewide races. When complete, 40 pieces…

Lindalyn Kakadelis continued the fall charter schools tour this week, speaking to the Banner Elk Kiwanis Club. While in the area, she visited Grandfather Academy. For a copy of the…

John Hood and Donna Martinez will provide North Carolinians with election commentary Tuesday night. Hood will be part of the “NC Spin” radio coverage on 37 stations around the state.

On Monday Chad Adams joined a contingent of officials opposed to Amendment One for a whirlwind airplane tour of North Carolina, holding press conferences in multiple locations to explain the…

More than 100 people joined the Pope Center last Saturday for a daylong conference on academic freedom. The group grew to 130 for remarks by outspoken free speech advocate David…

Lindalyn Kakadelis took the fall education tour to Rutherford and Wilkes counties last week. At each stop, the NC Education Alliance’s new policy report and parents guide on charter schools…

That’s the focus of the 2004 annual meeting of the State Policy Network in Austin. Lindalyn Kakadelis, Chad Adams and Roy Cordato are attending through Saturday, participating in sessions on…

In the October issue of The Freeman, George Leef responds to a liberal writer’s notion that federalism and liberalism are good working partners and that the dissent by Supreme Court…

Last year at this time, Paul Chesser was commiserating about his beloved but cursed Boston Red Sox on WPTF’s “The Jerry Agar Show,” alongside a diehard Cubs fan that knew…

We recently told you about the National Association of Scholars report on the lack of fundamental courses in the general education requirements of campuses in the UNC System. Now the…