John Locke Updates: 2011

View in your browser. Smart Growth advocates and new urbanists are constantly declaring the death of the suburbs. This is mostly wishful thinking on their part.

As the N.C. Utilities Commission collected public comments this week on a proposed wind energy project off the Beaufort County coast, the John Locke Foundation hosted a pair of…

View in your browser. 1. REINS Act: Restoring Accountability to Lawmaking On Wednesday, the United States House passed the Regulations from the Executive in…

A recent N.C. Senate vote could help dismantle the state’s Racial Justice Act, which allows death row inmates to use statistics about jury composition to help them escape capital punishment.

The Greensboro News & Record‘s “Mixing It Up” feature recently quoted extensively from John Locke Foundation President John Hood‘s column on firing public school teachers. ([O]nly in government-run schools —…

View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as…

View in your browser. Welcome Like a freakin’ zombie, the idea to lengthen the school year never dies. I do my…

The failure of Congress’ deficit-reduction supercommittee led the N.C. News Network  to seek expert commentary from John Locke Foundation President John Hood. A Winston-Salem Journal letter writer…

The indictment this week of three people associated with Gov. Beverly Perdue’s 2008 election campaign led media outlets to seek expert analysis from Carolina Journal Executive Editor Don Carrington, who…

View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well…