After a year with no leader, the Division of Family and Children Services was taken over by Mary Dean Harvey in September, 2005, making Harvey the fifth DFCS director since 1996. The agency has been undergoing critical reforms to reduce high caseloads that have hampered efforts to keep children safe and to investigate allegations of abuse and neglect. Will Harvey succeed where her predecessors have failed? She joins us to discuss her plans for the agency.

In his enlightening and controversial book, The Greening of Georgia, R. Harold Brown, Professor Emeritus of Crop and Soil Sciences at UGA, argues that, despite industrial and residential development and a population boom, our state became much cleaner and healthier during the Twentieth Century. Brown joins us to talk about his research.

Wayne Clough, President of Georgia Tech since 1994, will join us for a progress report on his institution, including the role it is playing in the Southern Innovation Initiative, designed to keep the region in the forefront of American competitiveness. Also on next week's program, we will discuss the state of marriage in America with Randy Hicks, President of the Georgia Family Council and Chief Justice Leah Sears.