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Don Carrington

Email: carrington@johnlocke.org

Vice president at the Locke Foundation and Associate Publisher of Carolina Journal, the monthly newspaper of the John Locke Foundation. He joined the Foundation in late 1994, having previously written articles for Carolina Journal and participated in Locke activities. His duties at the Foundation include investigative reporting, research, and public speaking. He writes articles and newspaper columns for the Foundation and in 1995 co-authored Changing Course, Locke's first proposal for rightsizing state government and cutting taxes. Carrington's previous work experience in North Carolina includes economic and employment research in state government, private-sector marketing, economic development, and political consulting. He received his degree in business administration from East Carolina University and is a native of the Washington, D.C. area.


Articles by Don Carrington

(8.27.10) Perdue Campaign Advised Stubbs on Flights
The discussion between attorney Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs and Perdue campaign officials shows a greater involvement than has been admitted by the campaign in efforts to find ways to report, after the fact, flights that violated state campaign law.

(8.23.10) Perdue Attorney Knew About Unreported Campaign Flights
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue's campaign received more than $28,000 in unreported free air travel over a 20-month period from her friend New Bern attorney Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs, according to a report by State Board of Elections investigator Kim Westbrook Strach.

(5.30.10) Southport Port Proposal Spurs Opposition
SOUTHPORT — The project has attracted significant opposition from NoPort Southport, a nonprofit established to oppose it actively. A study commissioned by NoPort Southport questions the ability of a new port to handle enough traffic to make it viable commercially when the nearby Wilmington port, also owned by the state, is being expanded.

(5.03.10) Eco-Farm Project In Western N.C. Appears Dead After Publicity
FRANLKIN — The self-sufficient organic farm’s developer, Kelley L. Bradbury, a Macon County woman, claimed to be seeking $15 million in public funds to develop what she called “North Carolina’s first all Green Eco-Community.”
 Bradbury’s contract to purchase the farm from the current owner has been terminated.

(4.20.10) Soles Victim Gives Account of August 2009 Shooting
RALEIGH — Something happened at attorney and Democratic state Sen. R.C. Soles’ Tabor City home on the evening of Aug. 23, 2009, but neither court testimony nor non-existent police reports have shed any light on exactly what. Now, one participant in the event has come forward to give his version to Carolina Journal.

(3.29.10) Eco-Farm Project Seeks Millions in Tax Funds
FRANKLIN — A Macon County woman who served five years in a Colorado prison on a theft charge is seeking $15 million in public funds to develop what she calls “North Carolina’s first all Green Eco-Community.”

(3.01.10) TransPark Still Broke With No Way to Retire Debt
RALEIGH — Even though the Global TransPark has landed an “anchor tenant” in Spirit AeroSystems, a Wichita, Kan.-based company that is set to start manufacturing large aircraft components later this year, government incentives to Spirit mean taxpayers will subsidize employment at GTP to the tune of $200,000 per job.

(2.11.10) Ethanol firm officials get 30-month prison terms
RALEIGH — U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle sentenced two principals of a failed ethanol production company to 30-month prison terms for their roles in a bribery scheme to secure environmental permits.

(2.01.10) Inquiries Take Toll on Easley Team
RALEIGH — When a federal grand jury indicted former Gov. Mike Easley’s legal counsel Ruffin Poole Jan. 21, it was just the latest setback for an Easley associate since the state’s media began investigating the former governor’s activities.

(1.08.10) Easley Ethics Forms Omitted Rental Income
RALEIGH -- Former Gov. Mike Easley failed to list income from the rental of his Raleigh home on at least three consecutive annual economic interest statements — a violation of state ethics laws.

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