Cover

• Job procedure for Decker skirted state law
• Decker says he brought shame on God and family

North Carolina

• State’s prosecutors like federal corruption-fighting tools, Page 3
• Partisans disagree about partisan wrangling, Page 6

Education

• More science, math teachers needed, Page 8
• JLF: Math scores not tied to time in the classroom, Page 9
• Lindalyn Kakadelis commentary: Carry on the fight, Page 9
• ‘Virtual charters’ targeting home-schoolers, Page 10
• Al Gore heads Gov.’s School summer film choices, Page 11

Higher Education

• New law makes lateral-entry teaching easier, Page 12
• Budget a big victory for Bowles, Easley, but mixed for taxpayers, Page 13
• Jane Shaw commentary: Still puzzling over learn and earn, Page 13
• Academic freedom ‘imperiled’, Page 14
• Former Harvard dean to speak at 2007 Pope Center conference, Page 14
• Issues in Higher Education: Is training NASCAR workers a proper role for the state? Page 15

Local Government

• N.C. Senate denies vote on eminent domain, Page 16
• Ruling allows town to extend its territorial jurisdiction, Page 17
• Chad Adams commentary: Whose property is it, anyway? Page 17
• Local innovation bulletin board, Page 18
• From Cherokee to Currituck, Page 18
• Greensboro’s ‘smart growth’ rep spurs projects, Page 19

Learning Curve

• Movie review: Michael Moore’s “SiCKO”, Page 20
• Troy Kickler commentary: A two-year progress report on the N.C. History Project, Page 21
• Short takes on culture, Page 22
• Movie review: Florian Nenckel von Donnersmarck’s “The Lives of Others”, Page 22
• Book review: J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Page 23

Opinion

• Paul Chesser commentary: Alarmed by deniers, Page 24
• Editorial: Unintended consequences, Page 24
• Editorial: Public-private highways, Page 25
• Editorial: Electoral gamesmanship, Page 25
• John Hood commentary: A failed big-money lawsuit, Page 25
• Michael Walden commentary: How ‘elastic’ are lottery ticket sales? Page 26
• Becki Gray commentary: Majority party procedures ignore millions of citizens, Page 26
• Letters to the editor, Page 26

Parting Shot

• Commerce Department to launch theater division (a CJ parody), page 28