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James Guthrie: Pay Teachers $200,000 a Year SRN PODCAST: Nevada’s education system is on a downward spiral, says former state Superintendent James Guthrie. He recommends one dramatic change: Paying top teachers $200,000 per year. Dr. Guthrie joins the podcast to discuss his proposal, which he published recently in a Nevada Policy Research Institute paper. We talk about why Nevada has so many rotten teachers, how to pay the best a lot more without increasing the budget, and how anti-elitism is a barrier to getting kids a good education.	Patrick Michaels: Is Government Money Corrupting Science? ECN PODCAST: Climate scientist Patrick Michaels rips the U.S. Global Change Research Program Draft National Climate Assessment and explains how government money is corrupting science.
Greg Forster: The Research Conclusively Supports School Vouchers SRN PODCAST: Opponents frequently claim that school choice does not benefit participants, it hurts public schools, costs taxpayers, facilitates segregation and even undermines democracy. What does the research say? Greg Forster, a senior fellow with the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice joins the School Reform News Podcast to discuss the research on school vouchers.	Randall Holcombe: Crony Capitalism: By-Product of Big Government BTN PODCAST: Economics professor and author Randall Holcombe explains how big government begets big increases in the amount of cronyism that rewards and protects politically connected businesses, individuals and interest groups at the expense of everyone else.
Benjamin Domenech: Obamacare train wreck HCN PODCAST: Benjamin Domenech discusses Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus's warning against the coming Obamacare train wreck.	Pete Sepp: It's Not Economic Development, It's Corporate Welfare FIRE PODCAST: Local officials in thousands of communities around the country love to do "economic development" that doles out tax breaks, taxpayer-backed loans and other "incentives" to attract specific businesses. Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union says it's really corporate welfare that sends the message, "Don't come here unless you're willing to invest a lot of lobbying clout. Perhaps even some campaign contributions to elected officials in the future would help."