Daren Bakst, John Locke Foundation director of legal and regulatory studies, discusses problems he’s found with House Bill 524, a 2009 measure designed to address flaws in North Carolina’s existing annexation law. Bakst offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 360).
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