As the John Locke Foundation prepares for its 25th anniversary celebration, new president and CEO Kory Swanson is focusing on plans for a Feb. 7 anniversary celebration and the new First in Freedom Initiative. Swanson discusses those plans during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

University of Texas-San Antonio professor Heywood Sanders discusses the “folly” of cities across the United States pursuing bigger, more expensive plans for their money-losing taxpayer-owned convention centers. George Leef of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy discusses a recent court fight over so-called “Liberty Dollars.”

You’ll hear a pair of Republican congressmen from North Carolina grill Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber over his comments about the “stupidity” of American voters. Plus state Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos urges caution as state lawmakers continue to pursue Medicaid reform.