With all of the recent debate about reducing health care costs, there’s been little discussion about opening up competition by scrapping the state’s certificate-of-need law. Katherine Restrepo analyzes North Carolina’s CON restrictions during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Sarah Curry discusses two key N.C. government revenue sources: the state lottery and local property taxes. Campbell University economics professor Mark Steckbeck discusses self-interest and the morality of capitalism.

Plus you’ll hear highlights from legislative debates involving the future of the Dorothea Dix mental hospital campus and ongoing efforts to pay off North Carolina’s debt to the federal government for unemployment benefits.