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    CJ Reporting on Incentives Reaps Benefit

    posted October 7, 2004
    We’ve told you previously about the many media stories generated by Paul Chesser’s reporting on the “cash cow” presentation created by Ernst & Young to give lobbyists tips on tapping…
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    Roads Study Generates Media Interest

    posted October 7, 2004
    This week’s release by JLF of a study showing that North Carolina misspent billions on roads of questionable value between 1990 and 2003 lit a fire under news organizations. An…
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    Education Takes Center Stage

    posted October 7, 2004
    NCEA Director Lindalyn Kakadelis spent a busy week responding to media interest in education policy. The charter school report, Innovation in Education, was the topic of interviews with Charlotte…
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    Redistribution of Wealth Still Attracts Liberals

    posted October 7, 2004
    George Leef couldn’t resist responding to the tired and flawed rhetoric offered by Jim Leutze in Metro Magazine. Leutze wrote in the September issue that if libertarians had their way…
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    Is UNC-CH Discriminating?

    posted October 7, 2004
    For weeks, Jon Sanders has been writing about the legal dispute between UNC-Chapel Hill and the Christian fraternity it “derecognized,” Alpha Iota Omega (AIO). His analysis has been published in…
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    Dodging the Real Story Behind the Draft

    posted September 30, 2004
    You know the election is looming when pundits and bloggers start fussing about a possible draft under a second term of George W. Bush. But Raleigh talk show host Captain…
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    Books Misses the Real Problem with Education

    posted September 30, 2004
    In her review of No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, linked on the national web site, townhall.com, Karen Palasek writes that while the book is a great look…
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    The $64,000 Debate Question

    posted September 30, 2004
    Who won? Who looked more presidential? Marc Rotterman went head-to-head with the Kerry/Edwards Campaign’s Ed Turlington on NBC 17’s Sunrise News Friday. Then Turlington joined “At Issue,” along with Jonathan…
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    Amendment One Update

    posted September 30, 2004
    Saturday’s anti-Amendment One rally in Raleigh, featuring remarks by Chad Adams and others, didn’t warrant coverage from the News & Observer. That slight prompted a letter to the editor in…

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