John Locke Updates: 2005

It’s too bad Wake County didn’t keep in mind Michael Sanera‘s Spotlight piece on solid waste markets that was released by the JLF in late October.  If…

North Carolina seems to have caught a whiff of the price gouging scare that has trickled down from Congress.  Thanks in part to the State Attorney General’s actions,…

JLF’s web sites were hopping in October, spurred on by Jon Sanders’ CJ Exclusive and “Locker Room” postings about former NC State Professor of Africana Studies, Kamau Kambon,…

No, it doesn’t, said Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University, in his remarks at last month’s Pope Center conference. This month, his argument is featured in MetroMagazine’s November…

Now that the writing is done and their books are published, Richard Wagner and John Hood have moved to the next stage of their projects. This week, Wagner spoke to…

The do-it-yourself movement is successfully expanding to untraditional areas, and that has bureaucrats in the education and media worlds taking pot shots at their new competitors in the marketplace, wrote…

When the Raleigh News & Observer published a story on the controversial issue of building landfills in this state, Michael Sanera responded with a letter to the editor, published…

Governor Easley has endorsed an across-the-board pay raise for North Carolina teachers because, Easley said, teachers need to be paid at or above the national average. JLF education analyst…

During the budget negotiations this summer, John Hood surprised some folks – including the the State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) when he wrote that state employees had…

It’s a challenge to keep track of who-did-what-to-whom, and the numerous subpoenas issued in the Jim Black/Meredith Norris/KevinGeddings story. John Hood used humor to put it into perspective…