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    Richard Wagner’s Book Tour

    posted March 23, 2006
    Richard Wagner, on tour with his book, Little League Heaven: The Legend of Odie Sweeny, recently returned to Raleigh, after traveling throughout Florida.  Stops included: Vero Beach (Vero Beach Book…
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    Local Groups Concerned For Their Rights

    posted March 23, 2006
    Legal and regulatory policy analyst, Daren Bakst‘s relentless push to secure the property rights of North Carolinians continues to make waves at the grass-roots level.  After the publication of his…
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    An “Ethical” Response

    posted March 23, 2006
    News that the State Board of Elections has asked the Wake County district attorney to determine whether to prosecute the speaker for criminal violations, came as no surprise to many…
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    Incentives Jump Pond, Subsidies In The Field

    posted March 23, 2006
    Following a Heritage Foundation press conference on incentives featuring the NC Institute for Constitutional Law’s Bob Orr and the Center for Local Innovation’s Chad Adams late last month, the Financial…
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    Out (with and in) Print

    posted March 16, 2006
    Dr. Troy Kickler is putting another book review out. This time American Diplomacy, published in cooperation with UNC-Chapel Hill’s Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense and the Triangle Institute for…
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    Ethics and Incentives

    posted March 16, 2006
    In the Carolina Journal, Paul Chesser wrote an opinion piece decrying a Charlotte Observer editorial that attempted to shift the blame of the ethical violations mounting against Speaker Jim…
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    E.A. Morris Fellowship For Emerging Leaders

    posted March 16, 2006
    The first retreat for the E.A. Morris Fellowship For Emerging Leaders took place this past weekend in Pinehurst, NC. The Fellows were joined by Elaine Tombaugh from Positive Organizations, who…
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    JLF, NCEA Hit On Hot School Topics

    posted March 16, 2006
    After laying the groundwork for school construction reform in his recent Spotlight, Terry Stoops‘s opinion is a hot commodity.  Stoops talked with Tim Boyum from News14 Carolina, State Government…
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    Climatic Strategery

    posted March 16, 2006
    Though the word hasn’t made it into the English language definitively, ‘strategery’ has become a colloquialism of sorts, thanks to Will Ferrell and a SNL skit.  More-or-less a way…
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    Identifying School Concerns

    posted March 16, 2006
    When asked by the Durham Herald-Sun about security concerns for students whose schools use Social Security numbers as identifiers, legal and regulatory analyst, Daren Bakst, said, “Should parents be…

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