For 2 ½ years, Dr. Aldona Wos oversaw North Carolina’s Health and Human Services department, the state’s largest agency. She left her post earlier this month. Carolina Journal Managing Editor Rick Henderson discusses her legacy on the troubled agency, the improvements made in the Medicaid operation, as well as the continuing challenges ahead for her replacement, Rick Brajer. Then we turn to a look at free speech. Rather than engage in debate, the political left is relying increasingly on manufactured outrage to shut down debate on a growing number of topics. It’s a situation that prompted Fox News contributors Guy Benson and Mary Katharine Ham to write the recent book “End of Discussion.” Benson and Ham explain how the left’s tactics make America “less free and less fun.” Next are comments from Gov. Pat McCrory at a news conference announcing the resignation of HHS Secretary Aldona Wos. McCrory recently thanked Wos for her two-and-a-half years of service as secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, then named health executive Richard Brajer as Wos’ successor. You’ll hear McCrory’s assessment of Brajer’s qualifications, along with comments from the new DHHS secretary. That’s followed by a look at the complex calculus of energy rates. Most of us think of energy prices mainly when we fill our gas tanks or pay a monthly utility bill. But Daniel Fine, associate director of the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy, says energy prices are wrapped up in an interesting story about geopolitics. Fine shared that story during a recent visit to North Carolina. And finally, the City of Raleigh has for years subsidized efforts to encourage people to frequent downtown. But now the city has the opposite problem, as least for some: too many noisy revelers who bother residents and block sidewalks. Carolina Journal Associate Editor Kari Travis explains the city’s solution: more regulation of restaurants and bars.