A federal appellate court ruling recently stymied North Carolina?s efforts to fight the Tennessee Valley Authority over air quality issues. What?s the long-term implication of that ruling? David Bass explores that topic in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Roy Cordato discusses the basic elements of real sales tax reform, while Terry Stoops responds to comments from Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton and others supporting early-college programs as a tool to help reduce North Carolina?s high school dropout rate.

Rep. Dale Folwell will explain how the new Safe Schools Act will help keep bad-apple teachers out of the classroom, and economist Richard Stroup of N.C. State University will discuss the biases that help convince some people that global warming constitutes a monumental man-made disaster.