North Carolina needs a better process for selecting its road-building projects, not a new pool of money to pay for those projects. John Hood explains why in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Rick Henderson will join us to explain the bizarre case of a western North Carolina ?eco-farm? project dependent on millions of dollars in taxpayer support. Speaking of tax dollars, Joe Coletti offers his response to UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp?s description of Carolina Counts, a program designed to help the campus save millions of dollars a year by streamlining operations.

You?ll learn why syndicated columnist and Fox News analyst Cal Thomas believes an entitlement mentality is hurting the American political process. Plus Duke professor Bruce Caldwell explains how the history of economics can help us make sense of our current economic struggles.