NC SPIN Podcasts

This week Tom Campbell discusses panic shopping and how this is our generations World War 2 moment.

Question to John and Chris – A recently released report indicates the number of acts of school crime and violence dropped for the 5th straight year. The report also shows that fewer students received short-term or long-term suspension than the prior year. It amounted to 203,000 instances. For the second year in a row the number of dropouts declined and fewer teachers left the profession in the 2018-2019 school year. What caused this drop. Are students suddenly behaving better, has our enforcement relaxed or what?

Question to Peg and Leo – The Catawba Indians have won federal approval to build a gambling casino at Kings Mountain. While this pleases the Catawba it isn’t sitting well with the Cherokee nation who tried to block it. What do you think of this? Should we seriously consider allowing other casinos?

NC SPIN episode #1114 Air Date 03/20/2020

Topics:

Interview with NCDHHS Secretary Cohen

Panel discussion on Implications of COVID-19

Panelists:

Leo Daughtry, former State Senator

Chris Fitzsimon, Director, States Newsroom

John Hood, syndicated columnist and author

Peg O’Connell, political analyst

Tom Campbell, Moderator

This week Tom Campbell discusses getting used to social distancing to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Question to John and Chris – A recent poll from Elon University found that 68 percent of those sampled say that it is hard for a family earning $50,000 per year to find affordable housing in their communities. 69 percent favored the government taking action to increase affordable housing, including 52 percent of the Republicans they polled. Your reactions to this finding. What action could or should the government take?

Question to Bob Orr and Howard Lee – The recent Elon University poll found bipartisan support for raising the state’s minimum wage from the current 7.25 per hour. About one-third, including more of the Republicans favored raising it up to $10, some 14 percent favored a raise up to $12 per hour and and some 31 percent favored raising it from $12 to $15 per hour. Should it be raised? If so how much? Given such widespread support do you think the legislature will do so?

NC SPIN episode #1113 Air Date 03/13/2020

Topics:

Dr. Cohen Interview on COVID-19

Education issues

Voter suppression vs. fraud

Tell us something we don’t know

Panelists:

Bob Orr, former Supreme Court Justice

John Hood, syndicated columnist and author

Chris Fitzsimon, Director, States Newsroom

Howard Lee, former Senator, Chair Board of Education

Tom Campbell, Moderator

This week Tom Campbell discusses the state of the coronavirus in North Carolina.

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Question to Becki Gray and Chris Fitzsimon – Patients across the nation are receiving surprise medical bills, generally due to medical service from doctors who are not in the network approved by their insurance company. Should patients be informed in advance of these out of network charges? Should insurance companies be forced to open their networks to legitimate doctors? What needs happening to curtail these surprise bills?