Under the Dome

The legislature won’t be doing much this week, since lots of top Republicans are heading to Utah for the national ALEC conference. But while they’re gone, there are potentially massive changes in the works for high school sports and who gets to run them in North Carolina. Is it about politics? Money? Racism? Transgender issues? We examine the many angles to this bill.

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Reporters Will Doran and Nina Pasquini examine the case of Dontae Sharp. He was wrongfully convicted of murder in Greenville and spent 26 years in prison before being freed two years ago. But Gov. Roy Cooper has not given him a formal pardon, which means he can't get even a penny in restitution for all the years of his life that the state took from him. The governor is now facing increasing pressure from Black Lives Matter activists to act.

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In this Under the Dome Look Ahead for Monday, July 19, 2021, reporters Danielle Battaglia and Will Doran discuss what's on deck at the North Carolina General Assembly.

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The N&O's Washington correspondent Brian Murphy talks with U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross, a Wake County Democrat, about the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, how she has approached her first months in office, the ongoing controversies at the University of North Carolina and what it will take for a Democrat to win a Senate race in the state.

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In this Under the Dome Look Ahead for Monday, July 12, 2021, host Dawn Vaughan, with Colin Campbell, tell you the important North Carolina politics things to watch for this week: medical marijuana, House budget watch and cobra-like surprises.

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State politics reporter Lucille Sherman talks with The News & Observer’s higher education reporter Kate Murphy about what happened June 30, the day UNC’s Board of Trustees voted to give Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure after months of declining to take the issue up.

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The News & Observer's Will Doran looks ahead to the legislative topics on deck at the North Carolina General Assembly. We've got an interview with NC Attorney General Josh Stein on medical marijuana, the latest on a budget fight that could lead to criminal charges against lawmakers, and the latest on what the NCAA and NIL rules are changing for local universities

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NC Insider editor Colin Campbell talks with Sen. Kirk deViere, who was one of four Democrats who voted in favor of the Senate budget. He explains why he voted yes, and why he’s optimistic about a bipartisan budget compromise rather than a repeat of 2019’s stalemate.

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State politics reporter talks with House majority leader Rep. John Bell and gubernatorial expert and beat reporter Dawn Vaughan about the legislature's attempt to limit the governor's powers in a state of emergency, and Gov. Roy Cooper's arguments for keeping the current coronavirus state of emergency in place.

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Reporters Brian Murphy and Will Doran discuss proposed changes to election laws in North Carolina and how those changes fit into the larger national debate over how elections should be conducted.

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