On the road, on the air, and other items of interest

When she’s not spending time on the radio, John Locke Foundation Vice President for Outreach Becki Gray is traveling this week. Gray discusses legislative power players and study commissions this weekend on Curtis Media Group’s “People In Politics” program. Gray previewed the week’s top state government news for WTSB Radio listeners, and she’ll return to that station today to recap the week’s political developments. Gray spoke this week to the Foothills Conservative Action Group in Tryon and the Sanford Lions Club. N.C. History Project Director Troy Kickler also has logged road time recently. He spoke to the “We The People” group in Ashe County, and he recently participated in his first meeting as a member of the Natural Heritage Trust Fund Board of Trustees. WTVD interviewed Mitch Kokai, JLF Director of Communications, about costs associated with the Occupy Raleigh protest. WPTF Radio news picked up Kokai’s comments, and WTVD used them again in a follow-up story focusing on the Raleigh mayor’s response to arrests at the protest site. The Heritage Action for America blog cited Kokai’s Locker Room blog entry on Democrats collecting large-scale campaign donations from Wall Street. A Lexington Dispatch editorial cited JLF government transparency efforts. The Greenville Daily Reflector mentioned JLF while discussing Greenville City Council candidate Howard Stearn’s affiliation with the E.A. Morris Fellowship for Emerging Leaders. The Huffington Post mentioned JLF while discussing the work of former Carolina Journal Associate Editor Paul Chesser.