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July 30, 2021 NC Governor: It's Irresponsible To Not Be Vaccinated
North Carolina's vaccination rate ticked up last week, but millions of the state's residents are still not vaccinated. WUNC's Dave DeWitt talks to Rose Hoban from North Carolina Health News about the doubts, the data and the Delta variant.
15 min
July 23, 2021 It's Redistricting Season
North Carolina's Republican-led legislature will soon start the decennial redistricting process. WUNC's politics reporter Rusty Jacobs looks at lessons learned from the past decade's legal battles over North Carolina's voting maps.
23 min
July 23, 2021 It's Redistricting Season
North Carolina's Republican-led legislature will soon start the decennial redistricting process. WUNC's politics reporter Rusty Jacobs looks at lessons learned from the past decade's legal battles over North Carolina's voting maps.
23 min
July 16, 2021 An Unprecedented Investment In America’s Youth
Parents across the country began receiving monthly payments from the federal government this week. Meanwhile, the North Carolina legislature considers legislation about critical race theory and medical marijuana. Host Jeff Tiberii reviews the week in politics with Mitch Kokai of the John Locke Foundation and Rob Schofield from NC Policy Watch.
23 min
July 16, 2021 An Unprecedented Investment In America’s Youth
Parents across the country began receiving monthly payments from the federal government this week. Meanwhile, the North Carolina legislature considers legislation about critical race theory and medical marijuana. Host Jeff Tiberii reviews the week in politics with Mitch Kokai of the John Locke Foundation and Rob Schofield from NC Policy Watch.
23 min
July 09, 2021 Black Scholars Scorned: The Echoes Of Pauli Murray's Battle With UNC In Nikole Hannah-Jones' Tenure Saga
Nikole Hannah-Jones' bombshell decision to reject UNC's offer of tenure makes it easy to draw some parallels between the journalist's very public fight with the university and another Black scholar who took the school to task for equitable treatment decades ago.
29 min
July 09, 2021 Black Scholars Scorned: The Echoes Of Pauli Murray's Battle With UNC In Nikole Hannah-Jones' Tenure Saga
Nikole Hannah-Jones' bombshell decision to reject UNC's offer of tenure makes it easy to draw some parallels between the journalist's very public fight with the university and another Black scholar who took the school to task for equitable treatment decades ago.
29 min
July 02, 2021 Disagreeing On What Makes A "Fair, Free & Secure" Election
Reporter Rusty Jacobs speaks with two North Carolina lawmakers about controversial GOP-backed voting legislation.
25 min
July 02, 2021 Disagreeing On What Makes A "Fair, Free & Secure" Election
Reporter Rusty Jacobs speaks with two North Carolina lawmakers about controversial GOP-backed voting legislation.
25 min
June 25, 2021 The Elusive State Budget
Reporter Will Michaels interviews Jeff Tiberii about the state Senate's budget proposal and explains the many steps left in the budget reconciliation process.
19 min

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The “WUNC Politics Podcast” is a free-flowing discussion of what we're hearing in the back hallways of the General Assembly and on the campaign trail across North Carolina.