John Locke Updates: 2005

Carolina Journal‘s, Don Carrington, after securing an invitation to former U.S. Congressman Frank W. Ballance Jr.’s final farewell before serving a four-year federal prison term for mail fraud…

As JLF has said in the past, there are a few things the state can do to ease its health care burdens; namely, nix socialistic Certificate of Need Laws…

As the year draws to a close, Joe Coletti, in an Op-Ed for the Garner Times, provides the best recap of the changing political times, from 1950 to…

Paul Chesser, in the American Spectator writes that journalists should seek the truth by asking difficult questions.  Highlighting the way some reporters play softball on hard…

An N.C. House Bill (H.B. 1183) allowing some illegal immigrants access to in-state tuition rates, which made national headlines when it was proposed in April of this…

After years of feuding over the possible zoning of Vance County, CLI Director, Chad Adams was asked to speak on the issue to concerned residents.  The presentation, picked up…

The N&O of Raleigh reports today on the addition of Mitch Kokai to the JLF team.  Kokai assumes the post of Director of Communications for the…

JLF’s research director and local-government analyst, Michael Sanera, and research intern Travis Fisher, recently released a report, “Solving Asheville’s Civic Center Dilemma: Making Lemonade Out of a Lemon,”…

While DeBow and Winter pushed for alternative health care coverage, JLF’s fiscal policy analyst Joe Coletti exposed the state’s tax bias in his Spotlight, “End All Tax Biases: Report…

In response to the Public School Forum’s annual Local School Finance Study (must be ordered, online), JLF issued a press release challenging the study’s findings.   A key…