Brenee Goforth

This month, an installment of NC SPIN’s “After SPIN!” featured Carolina Journal’s Rick Henderson. Henderson spoke with the show’s host, Tom Campbell, about the smokable hemp provision in the “North Carolina Farm Act of 2019.” Henderson stated: “When I was talking about the farm bill – the fact that…

This week, JLF’s Mitch Kokai was quoted in a Winston-Salem Journal story on Medicaid expansion. The reporter, Richard Craver, writes: A federal oversight agency cautioned last week that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) may not be properly monitoring administrative expenses related to its work requirement exemption for…

The Daily Memphian recently quoted JLF’s Jon Sanders and Roy Cordato in an article on film incentives in Tennessee. The article focusses on claims made in an economic development study which estimated the financial impact “Bluff City Law,” a new NBC legal drama set and filmed in Memphis, could have…

On Friday, JLF’s Terry Stoops was quoted in a piece by Brian Gordon in the Asheville Citizen-Times. The piece focused on Gov. Roy Cooper’s plans to increase teacher pay. Gordon writes: In his initial budget proposal in March, Cooper called for a 9.1% pay increase for teachers over the next…

This week, JLF’s Jordan Roberts published a research brief on the recently released Census Bureau report on health insurance coverage in 2018. Roberts writes: The total number of individuals without health insurance increased from 2017 to 2018. Many media pundits and health scholars contend that these numbers are proof…

Last week, JLF’s Jon Sanders spoke on a panel at the Platte Institute’s 2019 Legislative Summit. The Platte Institute is a state-based think tank located in Nebraska, and this year Jon spoke on the panel “Reining in Red Tape.” Sanders was joined on the panel by Nebraska state Sen.

On Monday, October 7, 2019, JLF’s Becki Gray published a letter from N.C. Senator Donald G. Davis, D-Pitt to Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen. The blog and letter prompted a story in the News and Observer. Colin Campbell, the reporter of the story, writes: Sen. Don Davis, D-Pitt,…

Last week, JLF’s Becki Gray made her regular appearance on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC with host Jeff Tiberii. Becki and fellow guest Rob Schofield from the N.C. Justice Center discussed the suspension of ECU’s Interim Chancellor, the reemergence of a bill to allow Duke Energy to adjust…