John Locke Update / Impact Newsletter

Zealous nutrition regulators, basic economics, and other items of interest

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The Reason magazine blog and Instapundit both publicized Sara Burrows’ latest article on the N.C. Board of Dietetics/Nutrition’s efforts to muzzle people who offer diet and nutrition advice without a license.

WLTT Radio listeners heard some basic economic principles when John Locke Foundation Vice President for Research and Resident Scholar Roy Cordato joined guest host Carolyn Justice on the station’s morning program. Cordato panned North Carolina’s renewable energy mandates for a video interview posted at YouTube.com.

The Winston-Salem Journal interviewed John Hood for an article about unemployment benefit extensions. A Rocky Mount Telegram letter writer referenced a recent Hood column that mentioned the plight of the Huguenots in 17th-century France.

The Greensboro News & Record quoted Piedmont Publius blogger Sam Hieb‘s commentary about a jobs announcement involving BB&T. A Gaston Gazette column cited JLF efforts to grade the Gaston County school system’s online transparency. A Winston-Salem Journal feature on the N.C. House District 93 election referenced incumbent Jonathan Jordan’s work as JLF research director in the late 1990s.

N.C. Senate Republican promoted in their daily press emails columns from Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops, who panned the State Board of Education’s use of “systems theory” in its vision statement, and N.C. Education Alliance Fellow Kristen Blair, who explained why recent SAT results mean bad news for boys.

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