N.C. House and Senate budget negotiators could finish their haggling next week. In this weekend’s Carolina Journal Radio, Joe Coletti outlines what he’d like to see in the final budget plan. You’ll also hear the ideas of legislative Republican leaders.

Michael Lowrey gives us a tour of airline service in North Carolina, and Michael Sanera applies his local government red pen to money-losing municipal golf courses.

Plus former Bush administration education official Gene Hickok explains why No Child Left Behind needs no huge infusion of new taxpayer funding.