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

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