Question to Becki Gray and Cash Michaels – A recent survey of 32 public universities that included UNC Chapel Hill reports that 1 out of 3 female undergraduate students reports having been sexually assaulted. More than half didn’t report it because they didn’t consider it serious enough. What does this say about our college campuses? Does the lack of reporting contribute to why we don’t take this seriously enough? What needs to be done to protect women students more?

Topics for NC SPIN #1092 airing 10/18/19

Topics:

Survey Says

Dorian Denial

NAACP Undercurrents

Medicaid Conspiracy?

Tell Us Something We Don’t Know

Panelists:

Chris Fitzsimon, Director, The Newsroom

Becki Gray, The John Locke Foundatiom

John Hood, Syndicated Columnist and Author

Cash Michaels, Journalist and Film Maker

Tom Campbell, Moderator

Tom Campbell asks the question: How long will we continue to argue about school governance?

Question to Rick Henderson and Chris Fitzsimon – Since the 2016 election there have been 1.1 million new voter registrations. Rebecca Tippett with Carolina Demography just reported that for the first-time unaffiliated voters outnumber either Democrats or Republicans. A large number are younger voters who are not North Carolina natives. What do these registrations tell us about what might happen in the 2020 elections?

Question to Donna Martinez and Rufus Edmisten – Recently the US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case where the owners of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Trump Administration are appealing a court decision that refused to allow the pipeline to cross the Appalachian Trail. Any idea how the court might rule? What happens if the decision stands and the pipeline can’t cross the trail? Will the project be dead?

Topics for NC SPIN #1091 airing 10/11/19

Topics:

Municipal Election Outcomes

The Legislature is Still Meeting

Education Wars

Tell Us Something We Don’t Know

Panelists:

Rufus Edmisten, Former Attorney General, Secretary of State

Chris Fitzsimon, Director, The Newsroom

Rick Henderson, Editor in Chief, Carolina Journal

Donna Martinez, WPTF Radio and the John Locke Foundation

Tom Campbell, Moderator

Tom Campbell discusses the search for the next president of the UNC System.

Tom Campbell discusses an official looking questionnaire he received about the census.

Tom Campbell talks about the climate crisis.

Topics for NC SPIN #1088 airing 09/20/19

Topics:

Budget Update

New Legislative Maps

Road Blocks

Tell Us Something We Don’t Know

Panelists:

Tamara Barringer, Former State Senator

Chris Fitzsimon, Director, The Newsroom

John Hood, Syndicated Columnist and Author

Howard Lee, Former Senator and Chair State Board of Education

Tom Campbell, Moderator