Lawmakers returned to Raleigh this week to address a veto from Gov. Beverly Perdue, and the General Assembly has held several other mini-sessions since wrapping up the bulk of their work in July. Becki Gray discusses the purpose and accomplishments of those mini-sessions during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.
New N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law Executive Director Jeanette Doarn tells us what lies ahead for the institute in 2012, while retired Army officer Vern Pike of Moore County discusses his work at the famous “Checkpoint Charlie” in Berlin during the height of the Cold War.
Plus you’ll learn why some lawmakers are unhappy about state agencies’ consultation with lawmakers on big-ticket spending items, and you’ll hear that the 1-cent reduction in the state’s sales tax rate last summer has yet to translate into a downturn in sales tax collections.
