Republican Catherine Truitt will take on the job as state superintendent of public instruction in January. Terry Stoops looks at Truitt’s priority list during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Rick Henderson discusses N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore’s priorities for the new legislative session that starts in January. You’ll hear Moore himself discuss the next process of drawing legislative and congressional election maps.

Donald van der Vaart critiques a recent National Review article urging a “conservative” brand of environmentalism. Plus Scott Walter of the Capital Research Center dissects Democrats’ efforts to turn North Carolina as blue as possible.