Does UNC ‘need’ a course on big-time sports?
Students ought to use their four years in Chapel Hill as basic building blocks for a lifetime of personal and…
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Mitch Kokai is senior political analyst for the John Locke Foundation. He joined JLF in December 2005 as director of communications. That followed more than four years as chief state government reporter for News 14 Carolina, now known as Spectrum News. The job included extensive coverage of the General Assembly for the 24-hour local regional television news channel.
Before News 14 Carolina, Kokai worked as a radio news reporter for seven years. He started a radio news department at WENC-AM in Whiteville, then led Chapel Hill’s award-winning radio news team at WCHL-AM. He spent two-and-one-half years as news director and assignment editor for Raleigh’s WPTF-AM.
Mitch is a Columbus, Ohio, native, and a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate. He has lived in North Carolina since 1989.
Content featuring Mitch Kokai
Do million-dollar earners really get a tax break 85 times as large as working-class families?
Lowering the state income tax rate and increasing the standard deduction do not produce the effect Gov. Roy Cooper claims.
JLF’s Mitch Kokai analyzes U.S. attorney general’s congressional testimony
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ testimony in the U.S. Senate Intelligence…
Cooper’s selective constitutionalism in redistricting fight
RALEIGH — Before Gov. Roy Cooper and his surrogates accuse the N.C. General Assembly of “thumbing its nose at the…
JLF’s Mitch Kokai dissects Comey testimony on Trump, Russia
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses former FBI Director James Comey’s high-profile testimony about President Trump and…
Mostly unanimous court issues one party-line split, one classic cultural reference
RALEIGH — With Christmas less than 200 days away, it’s a good time for the holiday spirit. At least that’s…