Education Funding – As the campaign season heats up, education is again becoming a hot issue. Democrats are criticizing Gov. Sonny Perdue for cutting education funding when budgets were tight and not restoring those cuts when state revenues increased. Gov. Perdue argues he's now spending 70% of new revenues on education and that he has directed monies to where they are needed most. Holly Robinson of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation and Dean Alford, Chair of the Governor's Task Force on Education Finance join us to offer their perspectives.

Also this week: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot – One hundred years ago this week, white fears of African Americans' increasing economic and social power, inflammatory rhetoric from white politicians, and unsubstantiated news stories about a black crime wave created a powder keg of racial tension in Atlanta that exploded on the night of September 22nd. By the time the riot ended on September 25th, at least twenty-five blacks and two whites lay dead. David Godshalk, author of "Veiled Visions: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot and the Reshaping of American Race Relations" joins us to discuss his new book.

Next week on Georgia Weekly: Libertarian gubernatorial candidate, Garrett Michael Hayes, in the first of three in-depth interviews with the candidates for Governor.