A new General Assembly starts work next week, and the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio focuses on the new legislative session from several perspectives.
Rick Henderson will examine the impact of Sen. Marc Basnight?s decision to resign his elected post, effective one day before the official loss of his 18-year grip on the Senate?s top leadership job.
Basnight and fellow Democrats are surrendering control to Republicans for the first time in more than a century. Troy Kickler discusses the history of GOP power in late 19th-century North Carolina politics.
We?ll also hear details of Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue?s recent recommendation that the new Republican-led General Assembly pursue legislative session limits.
Outside of state legislative news, we?ll cover two topics of national interest. Recently retired UNC System President Erskine Bowles will discuss the nation?s long-term federal debt challenges, while libertarian syndicated newspaper columnist Deroy Murdock will explain why government-run health care is ?bad medicine.?
