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The News & Observer‘s “WakeEd” blog cited this week Terry Stoops’ critique of the new Wake County school board majority. One blog comment made Stoops’ day by referring to him as a “stooge.” In other research news, Daren Bakst, Director of Legal and Regulatory Studies, released a new report offering five recommendations for compensating victims of North Carolina’s eugenics-based forced sterilization program. The News & Observer‘s regional publications — including the Midtown Raleigh News and North Raleigh News — mentioned the John Locke Foundation’s critique of the city’s convention center. (Some organizations, such as the conservative John Locke Foundation, have been highly critical of the discounts for visiting groups, arguing that the public loses out twice — first by subsidizing the building, second by paying to attract visitors to a concentrated area of the city.) The Beaufort Observer mentioned the John Locke Foundation research team’s recent coastal wind power workshop.