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Rick Henderson

Email: rhenderson@carolinajournal.com

Rick Henderson became managing editor of Carolina Journal in April 2009. Prior to joining CJ he had worked the previous nine years as an editorial writer and columnist for daily newspapers in Las Vegas, Riverside, Calif., and Denver, Colo. He previously worked as an editor and reporter for Investor’s Business Daily and the Los Angeles Business Journal.

From 1989 to 1998, he was with Reason magazine, dividing his tenure between the publication’s Los Angeles headquarters as a reporter and managing editor and its D.C. bureau as Washington editor.

His articles and op-eds have appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and National Review Online. He has also appeared on numerous television and radio public affairs programs, such as NBC's Today Show, C-Span’s Washington Journal, CNBC’s McLaughlin, Rocky Mountain PBS’ Colorado State of Mind. In North Carolina, he has been a guest on News14 Carolina's "Capital Tonight," WPTF's Rick and Donna Martinez and Bill LuMaye programs, The Big Talker with Chad Adams, Take a Stand with Matt Mittan, and WBT's Tara Servatius and Pete Kaliner programs.

Henderson received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the mid-1980s, while producing the alternative monthly tabloid Deregulator in Chapel Hill, he assisted then-undergraduate (and now JLF president) John Hood in the early days of The Carolina Critic, a newspaper Hood founded at UNC.

Henderson was awarded first place in editorial writing by the Colorado Associated Press (2006-07) and second place in editorial writing by the Colorado Society for Professional Journalists (2007). In 1992, he was named a fellow of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland for his environmental reporting.

He is a native of Wilkesboro, and now lives in Wake County with his wife Cara and their pets.


Articles by Rick Henderson

(4.26.13) Dirty Politics at Dix
If anyone has engaged in dirty politics, it’s the crowd who rushed the 75-year lease for the Dix property through state government as Gov. Bev Perdue was heading out the door.

(4.25.13) Three More Perdue Donors Convicted In Campaign Probe
RALEIGH — Three associates of former Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue — New Bern attorney Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs, Morganton businessman Charles Michael Fulenwider, and former Western Piedmont Community College board member Robert Lee Caldwell — were convicted Wednesday of misdemeanor charges for obstruction of justice in an investigation of fundraising violations during Perdue’s 2008 campaign for governor.

(4.11.13) Dirty Politics on Dix Hill
If anyone has engaged in dirty dealing linked to the 300 acres of prime Raleigh real estate, it's the crowd that rushed a 75-year lease through state government as Beverly Perdue exited the governor's mansion.

(4.11.13) Dirty Politics on Dix Hill
If anyone has engaged in dirty dealing linked to the 300 acres of prime Raleigh real estate, it's the crowd that rushed a 75-year lease through state government as Beverly Perdue exited the governor's mansion.

(4.09.13) Dirty Politics on Dix Hill
If anyone has engaged in dirty dealing linked to the 300 acres of prime Raleigh real estate, it’s the crowd that rushed a 75-year lease through state government as Beverly Perdue exited the governor’s mansion.

(4.09.13) Grand Jury Wants Perdue Donor Investigated
RALEIGH — A Wake County grand jury Monday suggested one of Democratic former Gov. Bev Perdue’s donors obstructed justice by violating campaign finance laws. In a presentment, the grand jury asked Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby to investigate Charles Michael Fulenwider of Morganton, who has been named in other campaign irregularities involving Perdue’s re-election efforts.

(4.03.13) UPDATED: Bill Freezing Renewable Mandate Squeaks Through First Vote
RALEIGH — After two hours of discussion and comment earlier this afternoon, House Bill 298, a measure freezing the state’s renewable energy portfolio standard, squeaked through a House Commerce subcommittee 11-10. Republicans Tom Murray of Wake County and Ruth Samuelson of Mecklenburg County joining eight Democrats opposing the bill.

(2.12.13) The Internet Sweepstakes Two-Step
North Carolina’s campaign against sweepstakes operators amounts to sheer hypocrisy.

(11.08.12) Ideas Matter. So Do Candidates and Campaigns
You can advance principles of freedom and self-government by recruiting the right candidates and giving them the proper support.

(9.27.12) The Public Interest, Broadly Defined
Carolina Journal gets some stories before the mainstream press because we have a larger vision of the role of journalism.

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