At the Manhattan Institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, youve seen him on television youve heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. Jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. Thank you for joining us thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the John Locke Foundation. Ive said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a National Think tank, so much policy happens on the state level and John Locke Foundation is really a Gold Standard think tank that has helped to reshape North Carolina and such a positive direction and lot of the strength and resilience right now and sound fiscal ain the midst of a pandemic is really due to the great work of the John Locke Foundation has done. Thank you
Book as director of legal policy and he holds a jd and mba from yale and a ba in economics and other firm chapel hill as a morehead scholar glad to have you with us. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Its always a pleasure to speak to those at the foundation i have said it before add a National Think tank so much policy happens on the state level and it is a Gold Standard think tank that has helped me to shape North Carolina and a lot of the resilience right now to have found a cisco flooding in the middle of a pandemic is due to the great work the John Locke Foundation has done thank you. Thank you for those comments you actually live in North Carolina so your book writes about federal policy but you follow state Public Policy as well and hopefully after we talk about your book you will get your take what is happening with Governor Cooper and Emergency Powers use here in North Carolina but i have to tell you the book is unelected you can buy the book now i think my col
Education policy and School Safety after the deadly shooting in parkland, florida. I am proud to be kicking off nationals governors associate National Governors association weekend. Governors will be here and going to the white house, and we are very excited to be kicking it off with a conversation about education, something that touches home to so many people. 74 and thee to thank Walton Family foundation for making this conversation possible. Thank you to the axios event steam, and for all of you for coming out. We will be covering a little bit about k12 and how to help older prepare for the future, and then pulling back the camera and talking to the governors about the big issues in their states. We will first talk to governor roy cooper of North Carolina, who was a year into it closed a proposal that is to what we are doing. And Governor John Hickenlooper colorado, and the governor of kansas, a surgeon who just took office. We have the whole lifespan of our governors here. Thank yo