John Locke Updates: 2006

At the top of the list: Health care. While individuals bicker with doctors, and doctors bicker with insurance providers, and insurance providers bicker with legislators, and legislators bicker with employers,…

With the escalation of violence in Israel, Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip, punditry and legislative concern has shifted away from priority debates at home. One issue momentarily caught up in…

Dr. Troy Kickler brought his Lexington talk on the NC Regulators to Burlington earlier this week.  During his presentation, Troy described the religious underpinnings of the North Carolina regulation and…

Usually once a month, the Center for Local Innovation interviews an outstanding exemplar of innovation in local government.  The Winston-Salem News & Record picked up this month’s interview…

Following the education establishment’s windfall of cash, a gracious gift from the unsuspecting taxpayer, the education establishment is still seeking more funding. Lindalyn Kakadelis, in a meeting with elected…

The idea of publicly financing elections has made its mark in NC politics twice – once with a proposal for publicly financing the Governor’s race, and another proposal to publicly…

JLF voices are taking the state by storm.  Rick and Donna Martinez are keeping up with their regular gig on State Government Radio.  The duo recently brought in JLF resident…

Coming on the heels of the release of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Building Solutions Committee’s Minority Report, Wake County has their own minority report of sorts. In both dissents,…

FrontPage magazine recently wrote on the Pope Center for Higher Education’s pick for the Course of the Month.  The monthly selection is chosen for it’s complete disregard for…

Sometimes heavy traffic is a good thing. At the mid-year point, JLF web traffic has been solid. We had about 78,000 visits to our sites in June, with about 200,000…