Cover

• Embracing compact growth: Raleigh planners urge remake of city in their image of what modern urban life should be
• Green for thee but not for me: City’s top planner advocates New Urbanism, but lives classic suburban lifestyle

North Carolina

• Credit crisis making it harder for consumers to finance spending, Page 3
• Unfinished business: Perdue inherits some problems from Easley, Page 5
• Legislators tame funding for state zoo, Page 6

Education

• National survey paints dire picture of today’s youth ethics, Page 9
• Kristen Blair commentary: Their cheatin’ hearts, Page 9
• Thales Academy offers affodability, excellence, Page 10
• N.C. students’ test scores plummet under new EOG standards, Page 11
• No change on horizon for charter schools, Page 12

Higher Education

• Roundtable discussion shows unsettled nature of role of sports in U.S. colleges and universities, Page 13
• Jenna Ashley Robinson commentary: Why students get bored, Page 14
• Story of black fraternal orders challenges conventional wisdom, Page 14
• Issues in Higher Education, Page 15

Local Government

• PTI puts hopes in FedEx ‘magnet’ effect, Page 16
• JLF: Few would benefit from corridor proposal, Page 17
• Chad Adams commentary: Too-powerful local governments, Page 17
• Local Innovation Bulletin Board, Page 18
• Jordan Lake cleanup costs worries officials in Triad, Page 18
• Annexation foes want bar set higher for state’s municipalities, Page 19

Learning Curve

• Book review: Steven W. Mosher’s Population Control, Page 20
• Troy Kickler commentary: Civil War’s causes included more than just issues about slavery, Page 21
• Short Takes on Culture, Page 22
• Book review: Edwards and Mitchell’s Global Tax, Page 22
• Book review: Richard M. Reid’s Freedom for Themselves, Page 23

Opinion

• John R. Graham commentary: Health insurance roadblocks in N.C., Page 24
• Editorial: Gov. Easley, quit digging! Page 24
• John Hood commentary: Spending and school improvement, Page 25
• Editorial: Higher-ed money, Page 25
• Editorial: Civic literacy, Page 25
• Michael Walden commentary: Economic challenges, Page 26
• Becki Gray commentary: Retiree tax-protest group shows the way, Page 27
• Letters to the editor, Page 27

Parting Shot

• Attorney General angered over low fuel prices, (a CJ parody), Page 28