John Locke Updates: 2006

Added to the list of wonderful accomplishments that House Speaker Jim Black credits to the short session is the ethics reform bill. Despite the huge and running list of…

A good leader is not only charged with inspiring those under him to work to their fullest potential, he’s also responsible for improving the system as a whole.  George Leef,…

The news that a good deal of schools failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) goals, as required by the federal No Child Left Behind law, has leaders scrambling…

JLF Director of Communications, Mitch Kokai, jumped at the opportunity to record an interview with Roy Cordato in response to the General Assembly’s idea to commission a panel to study…

In recent days, Daren Bakst and Joe Coletti have reached a variety of audiences on many different issues. Daren appeared at a House Judiciary I Committee meeting on the Electioneering…

A recent Shaftesbury Society talk on the future of the penney by Robert M. Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest University and an expert on the history of…

Nothing like the Israel-Lebanon-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas conflict taking place in the Middle East.  The UN and many world powers would have you believe that conflicts should be resolved peacefully, and that the…

News that two areas in North Carolina top Money magazine’s “Best Places to Live,” won’t decrease Wake County’s population and development boom. With more growth forecasted, local leaders are…

Specific heat is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature by one degree Celsius.  The formula used to capture this relationship does not apply to a phase…

Carolina Comments, a quarterly publication by the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, reported on Lloyd Johnson’s recent presentation at a Shaftebury Society Luncheon.  Johnson spoke on the…