As North Carolina lawmakers haggle over state budget details, they?re not contemplating the large-scale layoffs and program cuts under consideration in other states. Conservative revenue estimates deserve at least some of the credit, as Joe Coletti explains in the newest edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Terry Stoops will explain the potential benefits of new state tax credits for educating special-needs students, while you?ll hear highlights from a recent legislative debate about high school dropout prevention.

Now that the primary season is over, analyst Fred Barnes of Fox News and The Weekly Standard will offer his latest election assessment. Plus Donna Martinez and I will conduct another ?Locker Room Talk,? a discussion of some of the best recent entries from this blog.