North Carolina is making another plea for federal Race to the Top education grant money. Will state efforts to create new ?charter-like? schools improve the odds of securing more federal dollars? Terry Stoops explores that topic in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

You?ll learn why N.C. Republican Party chairman Tom Fetzer wants the state elections board chairman and executive director to resign, and Chris Hayes of the Civitas Insitute will analyze some of that group?s latest election poll results. Speaking of elections, Harvard professor Larry Lessig will offer what he labels a libertarian argument in favor of taxpayer-financed election campaigns.

Plus University of Toronto economic geographer Pierre Desrochers will explain why markets and the profit motive help protect the environment.