John Locke Updates: 2006

The winning bid for a one-year deal for midway rights expected to put $3.7 million to $3.9 million in state coffers was decided by a slip of paper…

Michael DeBow, author of JLF’s Policy Report, “Health Savings Acounts: Consumer-Driven Health Care for North Carolina Employees and Teachers,” was featured on Donn Ansell’s morning radio…

On January 1st the price of gas went up in the state, thanks to a semiannual adjusted rate of 7 percent of the average wholesale price of gasoline…

Dr. Mike Adams, criminology professor at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and a regular columnist for Townhall.com, now features Jon Sanders‘s column, Course of the Month, a satirical…

The John William Pope Center in conjunction with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released a report on free speech in the UNC System. The report,…

Before the Florida Supreme Court ruled against vouchers late this week, JLF’s Roy Cordato, in his Locker Room blog post, was pointing out that vouchers are a backdoor…

In Durham’s Herald-Sun, Director of the North Carolina Education Alliance Lindalyn Kakadelis, addressed the Durham County Board of Education’s decision to incorporate parental choice into district assignment policy. …

That’s what JLF’s Terry Stoops concludes after reviewing the N.C. Board of Education’s final report of the High Priority Schools Initiative, a four-year, $23 million class-size reduction program…

The numbers for 2005 are in, and page views and site visits are up for all JLF webpages and blogs.  For those seeking a student’s prospective on current…

Paul Chesser, writing for the American Spectator, notes that the liberal media won’t stop giving Pat Robertson star status every time he says something.  According to Chesser, Robertson misrepresents…