Historic tax reforms enacted in recent years have helped North Carolina climb from No. 44 to No. 15 in the Tax Foundation’s ranking of the best business tax climates in the 50 states. Becki Gray discusses the factors that led to the improved ranking during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Terry Stoops analyzes recent legislative discussions about a law designed to ensure that ineffective principals are removed from struggling public schools, along with the controversy surrounding a teachers union official who has accumulated state benefits while working full-time for the N.C. Association of Educators.

You’ll hear highlights from a recent N.C. State University forum on redistricting reform, along with N.C. congressman Richard Hudson’s Capitol Hill floor speech for his bill to seek new safeguards on the inflow of Syrian refugees to the United States.

Plus Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert Gaul discusses the role of money in big-time college football.