Carolina Journal
Volume 15, Number 3 - March 2006

Table of Contents:

On the Cover:

  • Funding gaps, delays plague N.C. roads
  • Transit — especially rail — likely to be hot session topic

North Carolina:

  • League of Municipalities backed New London in court case
  • Friends throw retirement party for former ferry director
  • North Carolina's new identity law
  • Gay seminar teacher under investigation

Education:

  • "Learn and Earn" program's impact in future
  • Lindalyn Kakadelis commentary: Know what's being spent — and how
  • Job-training efforts' success difficult to gauge
  • IBM addresses teacher shortage and digital divide

Higher Education:

  • BOG examines budget priorities
  • Higher tuition slated for some schools
  • Shannon Blosser commentary: Setting college priorities
  • Jon Sanders commentary: Seahawk gets it all wrong
  • Why not "deregulate" American public higher education?

Local Government:

  • Ex-youth leader faces charges
  • Chad Adams commentary: Gauging Government Success
  • Sprawl: An economic phase
  • State planning millions in grants for minority health
  • State to re-examine rules on coastal building curbs

The Learning Curve:

  • Book Review by George Leef: Declining by Degrees
  • Book Review by George Leef: Our Underachieving Colleges
  • Book Review by Bradley Smith: Welfare for Politicians
  • Troy Kickler commentary: Penelope Barker's "Edenton Tea Party"

Opinion:

  • Richard Wagner commentary: Silence of the Lambs
  • Editorial: Women dominate on campuses
  • Editorial: Bluffing on tax reform
  • Editorial: Don't kill the "growth" goose
  • John Hood commentary: The arts and public funding
  • Michael Walden commentary: Ban "equity" from political discussions
  • Letter to the editor
  • Karen Palasek commentary: Is the minimum wage really the magic want some claim?

Parting Shot:

    A CJ parody: Climate-change commission finds sky is actually falling

Download PDF file: Carolina Journal - Volume 15, Number 3 (3.96 mb)




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