Now that state lawmakers have been back in Raleigh for more than a month, we?re starting to see the types of legislation they?re planning to push for the 2009 legislative session. Becki Gray offers an update during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

One issue that?s attracting attention from state lawmakers is poverty in North Carolina. You?ll hear highlights from a meeting of a special poverty study commission, along with reaction from Joe Coletti.

A co-author of The Complete Idiot?s Guide to Global Economics, Gregory Rehmke, will offer this idiot and the rest of our audience some tools for understanding a complicated subject. Plus Donna Martinez and I will take part in ?Locker Room Talk,? a chat about some of the best recent blogs on this forum.