John Locke Updates: 2006

JLF President John Hood visited Asheville and Charlotte this week.  In Asheville, John spoke with WWNC-AM’s Matt Mittan for two hours, covering a myriad of issues, among them:…

Quickly becoming the voice of the oppostion to high-priced school bonds, education analyst, Terry Stoops, addressed the astronomical price tag proposed by Wake County for new schools – $5.6 billion…

James Alex Baggett’s new book, Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction will be reviewed by JLF‘s own Dr. Troy Kickler.  This comes on the heels of his…

Aside from the “Ferryboat Scandal,” the state’s Department of Transportation has another headache to worry about.  As Carolina Journal‘s Don Carrington reports to News 14, news that an…

Carolina Journal‘s Richard Wagner and Don Carrington, responding to a student sit-in at UNC-CH’s Daily Tar Heel over the publication of a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad, spoke…

In a few unrelated topics, JLF staffers have righted the misinformed opinions of a few.  In the Foundation for Economic Education‘s online News and Commentary section, the Pope Center’s George…

The National Center for Policy Analysis highlighted Joe Coletti‘s Spotlight, “Carve the Medicaid Turkey.”  The report recommends slowly removing the county’s share of the Medicaid burden,…

Dr. Roy Cordato, Vice President for Research, tipped off Max Borders of DC’s The Examiner, about the hidden agenda behind Duke Power’s push for a carbon tax. …

CLI‘s recent report on the cost of local government has generated many responses, some of which include the Tryon Daily Bulletin, the Robesonian, and a press release by…

Lindalyn Kakadelis, Director of the NCEA, spoke to Liz Luke on the Clear Channel radio station in Charlotte on how to improve student success, choice, and the future…