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Fred Barnes: John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon from 2015-12-01T00:00
Fred Barnes is co-founder and executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a political commentator on Fox News Channel. He was a panelist on "The McLaughlin Group" and co-host of "The...
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Brandon Arnold: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-11-16T00:00
Brandon Arnold is executive vice president of the National Taxpayers Union and National Taxpayers Union Foundation. In this role, he helps to oversee strategic planning and government affairs effor...
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John Bethune: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-11-09T00:00
Dr. John J. Bethune is professor of economics at Barton College. He directs the BB&T Center for Free Enterprise Education. Prior to accepting his position at Barton, Bethune held the Tom E. Hen...
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Ilario Pantano: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-11-02T00:00
Ilario Pantano, a former Marine sniper, became director of the North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs in 2013 and was immediately tasked by Gov. Pat McCrory to lead the charge in making North ...
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Becki Gray: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-10-26T00:00
Becki Gray is vice president for outreach at the John Locke Foundation. She provides information, consultation, and publications to elected officials, government staff, and other decision makers in...
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Jerry Gaus: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-10-19T00:00
Jerry Gaus is the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His books include "On Philosophy, Politics and Economics," "Contemporary Theories of Liberalis...
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Jay Schalin: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-10-05T00:00
Jay Schalin is director of policy analysis at the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. He joined the Pope Center in August 2007. A Philadelphia native, he began his writing career as a ...
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Rebecca Tippett: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-09-28T00:00
Dr. Rebecca Tippett is the director of Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she translates demographic and economic data into specific, usable information...
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Haley Barbour: John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon from 2015-09-23T00:00
Haley Barbour served two terms as governor of Mississippi, from 2004 to 2012. He began his political career in 1968, dropping out of college to work on Richard Nixon's presidential campaign. I...
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Donald van der Vaart: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-09-21T00:00
Donald van der Vaart has been secretary of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources since Jan. 1, 2015. Van der Vaart had served as DENR's deputy secretary and as the departmen...
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Stephen Walters: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-09-14T00:00
Dr. Stephen J.K. Walters is professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a fellow of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at the John...
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Jamey Falkenberry, Jeni Corn, and Trip Stallings: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-08-31T00:00
Jamey Falkenberry is press secretary and director of operations for Lt. Gov. Dan Forest. He has worked for Forest since 2013 and is a former office manager for U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick. Dr. Jeni Corn i...
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Brenda Berg: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-08-17T00:00
Brenda Berg is president and CEO of BEST NC, a nonpartisan organization of more than 100 business leaders with a focus on making education in North Carolina the best in the nation. She has more tha...
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Mary Katharine Ham&Guy Benson: John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon from 2015-08-10T00:00
Mary Katharine Ham is a Fox News contributor, editor-at-large for HotAir.com, a writer, and journalist. She grew up in Durham. Guy Benson is also a Fox News contributor, TownHall.com political edit...
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Peter Frank: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-08-03T00:00
Dr. Peter Frank is the interim dean for the Porter B. Byrum School of Business and an associate professor of economics at Wingate University, where he chairs the BB&T Program on the Moral Found...
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Edward Lopez: Friedman Legacy of Freedom Lecture from 2015-07-31T00:00
Dr. Edward Lopez is professor of economics and the BB&T distinguished professor of capitalism at Western Carolina University. He teaches classes in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and ethics of...
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Andrew Taylor: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-07-27T00:00
Dr. Andrew Taylor is professor of political science in the School of Public and International Affairs at N.C. State University. His research focuses on American governmental institutions. He has pu...
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Derek Yonai: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-07-20T00:00
Dr. Derek K. Yonai is director of the Center for Free Enterprise and an associate professor of economics in the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise at Florida Southern College. He...
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Molly Worthen: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-07-13T00:00
Dr. Molly Worthen is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Worthen received her Ph.D. from Yale University. At UNC-CH, she teaches courses on North A...
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Jonathan Williams: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-07-06T00:00
Jonathan Williams is vice president for the Center for State Fiscal Reform at the American Legislative Exchange Council. He works with state policymakers, congressional leaders, and members of the ...
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Garland Tucker: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-06-29T00:00
Garland Tucker is a best-selling author and historian, as well as a highly successful entrepreneur. He founded Triangle Capital Corporation, a publicly traded company based in Raleigh, and is its p...
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Magna Carta's 800th Anniversary: John Locke Foundation commemoration from 2015-06-25T00:00
England's Magna Carta reached its 800th anniversary in June. The John Locke Foundation helped commemorate the milestone with a panel discussion featuring experts on the document's impact ...
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Todd Davidson: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-06-22T00:00
Todd Davidson is policy specialist for the State Policy Network. He is responsible for building talent among policy analysts and advancing policies that unleash job creation. Davidson graduated wit...
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Sara Imhof: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-06-15T00:00
Dr. Sara L. Imhof serves both as director of education and grassroots advocacy and as a health policy analyst for The Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to educatin...
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Peggy Smith: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-06-08T00:00
Dr. Peggy Smith's retirement from her role as principal of East Clayton Elementary School in 2007 allowed her to move from adjunct instructor to full-time professor of education, coordinating ...
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Tyler Collins: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-06-01T00:00
Tyler Collins is director of business development for PrecisionHawk. Collins graduated from the Indiana State University Unmanned Aerial Systems program with a degree in aviation technology and un...
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Daniel Fine: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-05-21T00:00
Dr. Daniel Fine is the Associate Director of the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy and is a Senior Policy Analyst in the New Mexico State Department of Energy Minerals and Natural Resources. He h...
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Charles Cooke: John Locke Foundation and National Review Institute Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-05-18T00:00
Charles C.W. Cooke is a writer at National Review and a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he studied modern history and politics. His work has focused especially on Anglo-American history...
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Robert Graboyes&Christopher Koopman: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-05-11T00:00
Robert Graboyes is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He specializes in the economics of health care. Previously, he was a sub-Saharan Africa economist at C...
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Tony Papalas: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-05-04T00:00
Dr. Anthony Papalas is professor of history at East Carolina University. Papalas earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1969 and has taught Greek and Roman History at ECU for more than ...
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James Copland: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-04-20T00:00
James Copland is director of and senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, which seeks to develop and communicate novel, sound ideas on how to improve the civil and...
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Jenna Ashley Robinson: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-04-17T00:00
Jenna Ashley Robinson is president of the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. She joined the Pope Center in January 2007 as campus outreach coordinator and later became the center&apos...
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Ted Cruz: John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon from 2015-04-13T00:00
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, recently announced plans to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2016. Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, Cruz serves on the Committee on Commerce, Science,...
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Peter Boettke: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-03-30T00:00
Peter Boettke is a university professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T professor for the study of capitalism, and the director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Ad...
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J. Scott Moody: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-03-23T00:00
J. Scott Moody is CEO of State Budget Solutions, a national think tank focusing on state pension reform and state dependency on the federal government. He is also a senior fellow with the American ...
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Mark McNeilly: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-03-16T00:00
Mark McNeilly is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches in the areas of marketing and organizational behavior. He is a former marketing executive whose 30-y...
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Tony Tata: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-03-09T00:00
Tony Tata is the secretary of the N.C. Department of Transportation, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general, and a best-selling author. As one of the writers of Glenn Beck's New York Times best...
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Scott Maitland: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-02-23T00:00
Scott Maitland is the proprietor of Top of the Hill Distillery. He founded Top of the Hill in 1996 to prevent a chain restaurant from dominating downtown Chapel Hill. He says that being in the brew...
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Phil Kirk: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-02-16T00:00
Phil Kirk is currently serving as director of business and leadership for Brady, a comprehensive energy solutions company headquartered in Greensboro. A native of Salisbury, Kirk has held a variety...
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Richard Epstein: John Locke Foundation and Federalist Society luncheon from 2015-02-10T00:00
Richard Epstein is professor of law and director of the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University. Considered one of the most influential thinkers in legal academia, Epstein is known for h...
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David Stein: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-02-02T00:00
Dr. David Stein is co-founder of IFC Pediatrics. The clinic has cared for the children of Burlington and surrounding counties since 1999. It is the second largest Medicaid provider in Alamance Coun...
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Tommy Harrelson: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-01-26T00:00
After earning degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Tommy Harrelson returned to his boyhood home of Southport and joined the family business. He lat...
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Joe Mavretic: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-01-19T00:00
Joe Mavretic was speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives in 1989-90 and served in the House for 14 years. Mavretic is a native of Currituck County who received an English degree from UNC-Chape...
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Michael Lowrey: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2015-01-05T00:00
Michael Lowrey is an economics and regulatory policy analyst for the John Locke Foundation and associate editor of Carolina Journal. Lowrey has written for JLF on economic policy, education, welfar...
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Nick Dranias: John Locke Foundation/Federalist Society luncheon from 2014-12-15T00:00
Nick Dranias is president and executive director of Compact for America Educational Foundation Inc., which is a 501(c)(3) charity that focuses on educating citizens and statesmen about the power of...
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Chris Valauri, Caleb Miles,&Del Ratcliffe: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-12-08T00:00
Chris Valauri is legislative counsel for the N.C. Golf Alliance. Valauri has been in the government relations business for over 30 years. He and his wife Susan are the principals in the Valauri Gro...
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Roger Beckett: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-12-01T00:00
Roger Beckett is executive director of the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University. He joined the Ashbrook Center staff in 1997 and assumed his current post in 2013. Beckett has been pivotal in growi...
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Matthew Bryant: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-11-24T00:00
Matthew Bryant is a partner in the Hendrick Bryant Nerhood & Otis law firm in Winston-Salem. He has represented businesses, their owners, and families for 19 years. He handles all areas of busi...
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Rick Glazier: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-11-17T00:00
Rep. Rick Glazier serves House District 44 in Cumberland County. He has chaired or co-chaired the House Education Appropriations Committee, Education Committee, several Judiciary Committees, and th...
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Bill Kristol: John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon from 2014-11-10T00:00
Bill Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard, which he helped start in 1995. Kristol regularly appears on ABC News' "This Week." Before starting The Weekly Standard, Kristol led the...
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Roy Cordato: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-11-03T00:00
Dr. Roy Cordato is vice president for research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation. From 1993 to 2000, he served as the Lundy Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University. ...
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Cody Hand: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-10-27T00:00
Cody Hand is vice president and deputy general counsel for the N.C. Hospital Association. Hand serves as one of NCHA's lobbyists, advocating and coordinating hospital advocacy on behalf of Nor...
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Philip Miller: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-10-20T00:00
Dr. Philip Miller practiced internal medicine and cardiology for 34 years with Wake Internal Medicine Consultants Inc. and now works as a part-time physician with MEPS (Military Entrance Processing...
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Richard Bruch: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-10-13T00:00
Dr. Richard Bruch practiced orthopedic surgery for over 34 years with Triangle Orthopaedic Associates, P.A., and now serves as a consultant and registered N.C. lobbyist for TOA. Bruch is a North Ca...
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Joe Stewart: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-10-06T00:00
Joe Stewart is executive director of the NC FreeEnterprise Foundation, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts research and analysis on candidates, campaigns, voter attitudes, and other...
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Heywood Sanders: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-09-29T00:00
Heywood Sanders is professor of public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He received a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from Harvard Universi...
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Gary Harris: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-09-22T00:00
Gary F. Harris is executive director of the N.C. Petroleum and Convenience Marketers. Harris worked as a purchasing agent with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Veterinary Services, in Raleigh be...
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Bruce Clarke: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-09-15T00:00
Bruce Clarke is the CEO of Capital Associated Industries. CAI is a nonprofit employer advocate membership organization working with more than 1,200 companies in the RTP and Triad areas. CAI helps e...
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William Happer: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-09-08T00:00
Dr. William Happer serves as professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University and as a prominent technical consultant to industry and government. Happer served as research associate i...
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Paul Slobodian: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-08-04T00:00
Paul Slobodian is an organization development psychologist and principal of Pivot Consulting LLC. In 1990 Slobodian was hired by the Universal Instruments division of Dover Corporation. He is credi...
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Rep. Paul Stam: Friedman Legacy of Freedom Lecture from 2014-07-31T00:00
July 31, 2014, would have been the late economist Milton Friedman's 102st birthday. To honor Friedman's vision and the impact he has had on our society, the Friedman Foundation for Educat...
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Jim Geraghty: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-07-28T00:00
Jim Geraghty, a contributing editor at National Review, writes the "Campaign Spot" blog for National Review Online. He regularly appears on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. A former repo...
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Clay Jackson: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-07-21T00:00
Major B. Clay Jackson serves as the State Partnership Program coordinator for the N.C. National Guard's partnerships with Moldova and Botswana. He is responsible for planning and executing par...
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Joe Stewart&Matt Bales: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-06-30T00:00
Joe Stewart has served as executive director of the N.C. FreeEnterprise Foundation since June 2013. Stewart has worked in government, politics, issue advocacy, and association management for more t...
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Mark Steckbeck: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-06-16T00:00
Dr. Mark Steckbeck is an assistant professor of economics at Campbell University. He is noted for encouraging students to examine the economic aspects of both private and public sectors. In additio...
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Gene Boyce: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-06-09T00:00
G. Eugene "Gene" Boyce is an accomplished attorney who practices primarily in the areas of class action law, litigation, commercial litigation and constitutional law. Throughout his caree...
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John Staddon: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-05-27T00:00
Dr. John Staddon is James B. Duke professor of psychology and professor emeritus in psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. He works on evolution, biological and social, and mechanisms of l...
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Frank Buckley: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-05-19T00:00
Frank Buckley is a foundation professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he has taught since 1989. Before then, he was a visiting Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School....
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Daniel Alexander: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-05-05T00:00
Daniel Alexander is regional director for Jobs For Life. In this role, he interacts with church, business, government, and community leaders throughout North Carolina and the nation. Alexander has ...
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Bartley Danielsen: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-04-28T00:00
Dr. Bartley Danielsen is associate professor of finance and real estate at North Carolina State University. His recent research focuses on how charter schools, school vouchers, and other school cho...
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Chris Conover: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-04-14T00:00
Dr. Chris Conover is research scholar in the the Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research at Duke University, an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Mercatus-aff...
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Election panel featuring Fred Barnes, Brad Crone, John Hood, and Marc Rotterman from 2014-04-09T00:00
The 2014 election cycle will have a major impact on government in Washington, D.C., and Raleigh. North Carolina's U.S. Senate race is one of the most highly anticipated electoral contests acro...
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Harry Kaplan: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-04-07T00:00
Harrison J. "Harry" Kaplan is a partner with McGuireWoods LLP and also leads McGuireWoods Consulting LLC's Raleigh office. For the consulting group, he serves as a senior vice presid...
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Richard Burr: John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon from 2014-03-31T00:00
Richard Burr is North Carolina's senior U.S. senator. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 after serving a decade in the U.S. House of Representatives. In January, Burr joined fello...
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Jane Pinsky: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-03-24T00:00
Jane Pinsky has been director of the North Carolina Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform since late 2007. She has spent more than 30 years working for nonprofits in San Francisco, New York,...
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The Prospect of State-Mandated Consumer Financing of Power Plants: John Locke Foundation&NC WARN electricity competition forum from 2014-03-20T00:00
The John Locke Foundation and NC WARN don't always agree in public policy debates. But the conservative nonprofit think tank and the environmental nonprofit group share some concerns about Nor...
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Tim Boyum: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-03-17T00:00
Tim Boyum hosts the daily Time Warner Cable News program "Capital Tonight." He joined Time Warner Cable News for its launch in 2002. As a reporter, he covered Hurricane Isabel, the Michae...
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Joe Coletti: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-03-10T00:00
Joe Coletti is deputy director for the NC GEAR project to transform North Carolina state government. He joined state government in the Office of State Budget and Management in February 2013. Colett...
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David Rose: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-03-03T00:00
Dr. David C. Rose is professor of economics at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1987 from the University of Virginia. Rose's primary areas of resear...
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The Competitive Challenges to N.C.'s Monopoly Electricity Model: John Locke Foundation&NC WARN electricity competition forum from 2014-02-26T00:00
The John Locke Foundation and NC WARN don't always agree in public policy debates. But the conservative nonprofit think tank and the environmental nonprofit group share some concerns about Nor...
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Troy Kickler: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-02-17T00:00
Troy Kickler is founding director of the North Carolina History Project and Editor of NorthCarolinahistory.org. He holds a master’s degree in social studies education from North Carolina A&T St...
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Clark Neily: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-02-10T00:00
Clark Neily joined the Institute for Justice as a senior attorney in 2000. He litigates economic liberty, property rights, school choice, First Amendment, and other constitutional cases in both fed...
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Beth Wood: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-02-03T00:00
N.C. State Auditor Beth Wood has 15 years of auditing experience. She served in the State Auditor's Office for more than a decade and previously served in the State Treasurer's Office. Sh...
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John Hood: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-01-20T00:00
John Hood is president and chairman of the John Locke Foundation, a North Carolina think tank that issues policy studies, hosts dozens of events and training sessions each year, produces broadcast ...
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Mitch Kokai: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2014-01-13T00:00
Mitch Kokai joined the John Locke Foundation as director of communications in December 2005 after spending more than four years as chief state government reporter for News 14 Carolina. That job inc...
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Gene Chianelli: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-12-16T00:00
Gene Chianelli serves as counsel on tax and business law issues to N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis. In this role, Chianelli helped construct the recently enacted North Carolina tax reform legislatio...
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Sarah Curry: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-12-09T00:00
Sarah Curry is Director of Fiscal Policy Studies at the John Locke Foundation. Previously, she worked for the North Carolina State Senate as a research assistant for the chairs of the Senate Agricu...
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Virginia Postrel: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-12-02T00:00
Virginia Postrel is an author, columnist, and speaker whose work spans a broad range of topics, from social science to fashion, concentrating on the intersection of culture and commerce. She has be...
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Nicola Scafetta: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-11-18T00:00
Nicola Scafetta is a research scientist at the Active Cavity Radiometer Solar Irradiance Monitor Lab group and an adjunct assistant professor in the physics department at Duke University. His resea...
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Mark Cares: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-11-04T00:00
Mark Cares has worked for the last three years in the shale exploration industry. In 2010 he took the opportunity to work on cleanup of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Cares ...
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Mike Hager: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-10-21T00:00
Rep. Mike Hager is completing his second term in the N.C. House. Hager represents District 112, which encompasses all of Rutherford County and a portion of Burke County. He is a small business owne...
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Cathy Rossberg: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-10-07T00:00
Cathy Rossberg is vice president for new business development at Amerigroup. Rossberg helps develop strategic relationships with stakeholders in new markets and for new products and RFPs in curren...
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Katherine Restrepo: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-09-30T00:00
Katherine Restrepo is the health and human services policy analyst at the John Locke Foundation. Before joining JLF, she interned at the Cato Institute under its director of health policy studies. ...
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Amity Shlaes: John Locke Foundation Headliner luncheon from 2013-09-23T00:00
Amity Shlaes is a syndicated columnist and directs the 4% Growth project at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Shlaes also teaches about the economics of the 1930s for the M.B.A. program at Ne...
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Dallas Woodhouse: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-08-26T00:00
Dallas Woodhouse is North Carolina state director of Americans for Prosperity. Woodhouse has been involved in North Carolina politics for many years. Beginning his career as a Raleigh-based politic...
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John Skvarla: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-08-19T00:00
John Skvarla is secretary of the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. He joined DENR from the business world, most recently serving as CEO for Restoration Systems, an environmental...
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Dale Folwell: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-08-05T00:00
Dale Folwell was appointed assistant secretary for the N.C. Division of Employment Security in March. He oversees the state's unemployment insurance system. This role includes all aspects of c...
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Terry Stoops: Friedman Legacy of Freedom Lecture from 2013-07-31T00:00
July 31, 2013, would have been the late economist Milton Friedman's 101st birthday. To honor Friedman's vision and the impact he has had on our society, the Friedman Foundation for Educat...
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Mathew Shaeffer: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-07-29T00:00
Mathew Shaeffer is history research associate at the John Locke Foundation. Shaeffer earned his bachelor's degree in history from N.C. State University and is working on his master's in h...
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Jonathan Ingram: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-07-22T00:00
Jonathan Ingram is director of research at the Foundation for Government Accountability. Before joining FGA, Ingram served as director of health policy and pension reform at the Illinois Policy Ins...
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Bill Stallings: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-07-15T00:00
Bill Stallings is principal musician and chief bugler for the Carolina Legion and First Brigade, Southern Division, a Civil War re-enactment group. He's been involved in re-enactments since 19...
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Richard McKenzie: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-07-08T00:00
Richard McKenzie, professor emeritus of economics at the University of California at Irvine, has authored 30 books and is a nationally recognized authority on the Microsoft antitrust case. His rese...
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Lee Craig: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-06-24T00:00
Lee Craig is head of the Department of Economics and Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor at North Carolina State University. An expert on economic history, Craig's work includes a new...
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Jon Sanders: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-06-10T00:00
Jon Sanders is director of regulatory studies at the John Locke Foundation. Before assuming his current responsibilities, Sanders served as JLF's associate director of research. He also resear...
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Rick Henderson: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-05-20T00:00
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 ...
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Jacob Vigdor: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-05-13T00:00
Jacob Vigdor is a professor of public policy and economics at Duke University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy...
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Grady Jefferys: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-05-06T00:00
Grady Jefferys has had a lifelong career as a newsmaker in North Carolina. He sat on staff at WRAL during the station's early days, wrote and edited for the News & Observer, and worked on ...
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John Blundell: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-05-02T00:00
John Blundell is the former Director General and Ralph Harris Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Blundell became Director General of IEA in 1993. In addition, he served as co-founder and ...
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Rich Clifford: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-04-29T00:00
Rich Clifford is a former NASA astronaut and a passionate advocate and activist for Parkinson's Disease. He is also a patient since he was first diagnosed with the disease after completing his...
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Yuri Maltsev: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-04-22T00:00
Dr. Yuri Maltsev is professor of economics at Carthage College, where he has worked since 1991. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Moscow State University and his Ph.D. in labor economics at th...
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Amelia Frahm: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-04-15T00:00
Amelia Frahm is executive director of Nutcracker Publishing. Frahm is an award-winning author known for taking contentious, difficult topics and putting them in a format children of all ages unders...
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Terry Stoops: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-03-11T00:00
Terry Stoops is director of research and education studies at the John Locke Foundation. Before joining the Locke Foundation, he worked as the program assistant for Child Welfare Education Programs...
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Dan Forest: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-03-04T00:00
Dan Forest is the first Republican lieutenant governor to be elected in North Carolina in 20 years, and only the second since 1897. Forest is a registered architect. He and his wife, Alice, live in...
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Sougata Mukherjee: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-02-11T00:00
Sougata Mukherjee is editor of the Triangle Business Journal, one of top financial newspapers in the country, according to the country's largest business journalism organization, the Society o...
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Walter Wessels: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-02-04T00:00
Dr. Walter J. Wessels is professor of economics at North Carolina State University. He specializes in labor economics. His current research interests include minimum wages, cooperative education, a...
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Robert Childs: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-01-28T00:00
Robert Childs has served as the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition's executive director since 2009. He is involved in all program activities including service delivery, program design, in...
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John Hubisz: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-01-21T00:00
Dr. John Hubisz is a visiting professor of physics at North Carolina State University. He specializes in physics education. He is particularly interested in ways of teaching physics to the general ...
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HansMarc Hurd: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2013-01-07T00:00
HansMarc Hurd is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army and Army Reserve, serving in Army Special Operations Command in a Military Intelligence and a Psychological Warfare capacity. He has participated...
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Eric Kniffin: John Locke Foundation&Federalist Society luncheon from 2012-12-13T00:00
Eric Kniffin is counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He joined the Becket Fund in 2009 and has been active in defending the rights of religion and conscience in the workplace. Before ...
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Algenon Cash: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2012-11-26T00:00
Algenon Cash is managing director of Wharton Gladden, a boutique real estate investment banking firm headquartered in North Carolina. In 2003, Cash and a group of private investors created Wharton...
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Jonathan Butcher: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2012-11-19T00:00
Jonathan Butcher serves as education director for the Goldwater Institute. He has researched education policy and school choice programs at both the state and national level. Prior to joining Goldw...
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Michael Walden: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2012-11-05T00:00
Michael L. Walden is William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He is author ...
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Michael Walden: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2012-11-05T00:00
Michael L. Walden is William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He is author ...
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Michael Walden: John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society luncheon from 2012-11-05T00:00
Michael L. Walden is William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor and extension economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University. He is author ...
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