If you?re trying to find online budget information from a state agency or local government, good luck. The John Locke Foundation recently awarded low government ?transparency? grades to government units across North Carolina. Joe Coletti will explain the findings in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

You?ll also hear Chad Adams rebut legislators? arguments favoring targeted tax incentives, and Roy Cordato will tackle the misguided policy proposals from advocates of ?sustainability.?

We?ll hear East Carolina economics professor Gary Zinn discuss his ideas for improving the eastern North Carolina economy, and we?ll learn why the state could soon see a $3.7 million study of North Carolina?s aging population.