Parties in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit must present a new plan in the coming months to the judge overseeing the case. The judge accepts an outside consultant’s recommendations of major changes, including an extra $8 billion in spending over the next eight years. Terry Stoops analyzes the case’s latest developments during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Donald van der Vaart assesses the potential impact of a recent settlement involving disposal of Duke Energy coal ash. Danielle Robinson, state director of BLEXIT, explains the project designed to distance black Americans from the Democratic Party.

Jim Copland of the Manhattan Institute explains his support for North Carolina’s efforts to clean up the state criminal code. Plus you’ll hear from William Roper, interim president of the University of North Carolina System, about the university’s concerns surrounding the state budget impasse.