Carolina Journal’s work promoted and other items of interest

The State Policy Network promoted this week Carolina Journal Executive Editor Don Carrington‘s exclusive article on the Obama administration’s promotion of federally funded jobs that would last just one year. Meanwhile, N.C. Senate Republicans promoted Rick Henderson‘s report on a dubious Obama administration “veterans initiative” involving public transit call centers, along with Associate Editor David Bass‘ report on the possibility that redistricting lawsuits could delay North Carolina’s May 2012 primary election. The Lincoln Tribune also picked up Bass’ redistricting article. Bass’ latest American Spectator column focused on the possibility of future “retirement wars.” In other news, the Winston-Salem Journal and Mooresville Tribune published an article highlighting Yadkin County government’s efforts to boost its NCTransparency.com grade to A. The Asheboro Courier-Tribune, Sanford Herald, Chatham News, and Chatham Herald all published an article highlighting Chatham County government’s A grade from the transparency site. (The transparency website, a project of the John Locke Foundation, shows that Chatham County is providing public access to 12 of the 14 areas that they track.) The National Legal and Policy Center quoted Meck Deck blogger Tara Servatius in an article about Duke Energy and the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. An op-ed in the Charlotte Observer cited former Meck Deck blogger Jeff Taylor‘s comments about former Queen City Mayor Pat McCrory and the Occupy Wall Street movement. (Former Meck Deck chieftain and guerilla blogger Jeff Taylor dissects the gross hypocrisy inherent in Pat McCrory’s recent criticism of the Occupy Charlotte movement and the former mayor’s previous propensity to embrace the Teamsters occupation of Queen City transit ops.)