Critics of the Republican-led General Assembly have complained that the state’s latest budget dropped North Carolina to 49th in the nation in education funding. Terry Stoops probes the accuracy of that claim in the latest edition of Carolina Journal Radio.
Rick Henderson will discuss the $56 million taxpayers across the country have devoted to competing — and potentially contradictory — federal and state-level green jobs studies.
You’ll hear legislative debates about closing and scaling back state cultural and natural attractions, as well as combining ethics, lobbying, and campaign-finance compliance staff under one state agency.
And former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly Lake will reflect on the accomplishments of the state innocence commission he put in place.
