North Carolina lawmakers are haggling over roughly $20 billion in state spending for the 2010-11 budget year. Lost in the debate is the total cost of state government, which reaches more than $49 billion. Joseph Coletti discusses this ?shadow budget? during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.
Daren Bakst joins us to explain why a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in an Arizona case should prompt North Carolina leaders to place a moratorium on a major piece of their taxpayer-financed election campaign system.
N.C. State economist Lee Craig will discuss his research into the history of North Carolina?s disenfranchisement of black voters, and we?ll hear concerns about the unintended consequences of the state?s 2009 Racial Justice Act.
Plus you?ll learn why N.C. House Republicans were happy to win bipartisan support for some amendments to the state budget.
