These days many high school graduates end up going to college, but figuring out if you should go, where you should go, and how to pay for it can be a daunting challenge for students and parents. A new report by Jenna Ashley Robinson of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy sets out a step-by-step program for a methodical process that results in the best decisions tailored to individual needs and wants. Robinson also reflects on her decisions and what she found most confounding about the steps toward college. Then we turn to the debate over health care reform. North Carolinians have been learning about alternatives to the ideas moving through Washington, D.C. The John Locke Foundation recently hosted six health-care panel discussions across the state. From one of those events, you’ll hear N.C. Medical Society CEO Bob Seligson and JLF Fiscal and Health Care Policy Analyst Joseph Coletti debate different approaches to reform. North Carolinians also had a chance recently to hear health care reform ideas from Tim Phillips, president of the Washington-based group Americans for Prosperity. Phillips takes issue with a number of the promises President Obama has made about health care. Phillips rebuts the president’s arguments in calling for a different type of reform. Next, we take a look at the publishing industry’s relationship to conservatism. They say the pen is mightier than the sword, and Alfred Regnery might agree. The American Spectator publisher and former head of Regnery Publishing recently explained to the Civitas Conservative Leadership Conference how some books have shaped the conservative movement and changed history. You’ll hear highlights from his speech, plus a one-on-one conversation about the political future for American conservatism. And finally, on October 1, a state ban on plastic bottles in landfills went into effect. John Locke Foundation vice president for research Roy Cordato discusses the myths about recycling and what is behind the continuing push at the national and state level.