Legendary Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Hedrick Smith discusses the fight that citizens all over the country are waging to end political gerrymandering and win back our democracy.

Senator Mike Woodard discusses Medicaid expansion, funding needs for NC’s public schools and automatic voter registration.

Kris Nordstrom with the Education & Law Project discusses North Carolina’s dire school facilities problem and how members of the NC House and Senate hope to tackle the issue.

Lauren Fox, Senior Director of Policy for the Public School Forum of North Carolina, discusses the chronic, growing gap in public school funding. Read the Forum’s latest Local School Finance Study.

Christina Adeleke of the NC AIDS Action Network and Marvin Anderson of the Southern AIDS Coalition discuss the latest healthcare advances and why the South experiences the greatest burden of HIV/AIDS infection and illness of any region in the U.S. and what can be done to change that.

Meredith College Political Science Professor David McLennan looks ahead to the 2020 elections and shares what issues are at the forefront of voters’ minds.

Martine Aurelien with the NC Budget & Tax Center discusses her new report: A Two Generation Approach to Early Childhood: The Role of Wages and Compensation in Achieving Quality & Access Goals.

Whitney Tucker, Director of Research for NC Child, joins us to discuss childhood poverty, North Carolina’s latest child health report card and the troubling rise in youth suicides.

With U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on the rise, we’ll hear from senior immigrant and refugee rights attorney Raul Pinto with the NC Justice Center.

State Senator Kirk deViere joins us to discuss school funding, NC’s transportation needs and his hopes for more bipartisanship in the General Assembly.