Cover

• Parents Protest Elite School’s Seminar on Gays
• Fifty Gay & Lesbian Alliance Clubs Exist at NC Schools

North Carolina

• Salisbury Attorney Calls for Repeal of State Gas-Tax Increase
• State House Begins Post-Kelo Review of Eminent Domain
• Federal Grand Jury Indicts Ferry Division Director Jerry Gaskill

Education

• Kakadelis Commentary: School-Choice Fight Heats Up
• Charter Backers Gear Up for Lottery Fund Chase
• Expensive Student-Info Software Riddled With Problems

Higher Education

• Bowles Takes Over Reins as UNC President
• Study: Many Campuses Get ‘F’ in Fostering Intellectual Diversity
• Renovated Dorm Uses ‘Green’ Heating
• Leef Commentary: How Literate Are Americans?
• Sanders Commentary: The Art of the Deal
• Pope Center, FIRE Find Free Speech in Jeopardy on UNC’s Campuses
• Commentary: UNC Should Pay Closer Attention to First Amendment

Local Government

• Report Documents Growth in Cost of Government
• Adams Commentary: Annual ‘Numbers’ Report
• Locke Report Says Asheville Civic Center Should Be Sold
• Winter Beach-Maintenance Work Hampered By Demand

Learning Curve

• Book Review: Winston S. Churchill III’s “Memories and Adventures”
• Book Review: Jimmy Carter’s “Our Endangered Values”
• Book Review: Phyllis Chesler’s “The Death of Feminism”
• Kickler Commentary: Lunsford Lane: Enrepreneurial Pioneer Succeeded Despite Slavery

Opinion

• Wagner Commentary: Media, Heal Thyself!
• Editorial: Pick Six and Win Easley’s Job
• Editorial: Setting Our Top Priorities
• Editorial: The Left’s Dismal Worldview
• Hood Commentary: A Cudgel for Country Music
• Walden Commentary: Putting a Crystal Ball to the Job Market
• Rotterman Commentary: An Erudite and Eloquent Reagan Goes Against Media Portrayal
• Letters to the Editor

Parting Shot

• ‘Happy Trails’ Tour Shows Where Highway Money Goes (a CJ parody)