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January 10, 2020 State Superintendent Makes Istation Purchase, Billionaire Candidates Spend Big
The state superintendent made a $928,000 emergency purchase that stoked the fight with the state board of education over what tool schools should be using to evaluate reading skills. A Democratic state senator who Republicans found both annoying and essential officially stepped down to join the state Utilities Commission. And presidential candidates Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer are spending millions on ads in North Carolina as Super Tuesday looms. Mitch Kokai of the John Locke Foundation and
16 min
January 09, 2020 Meet Holly Grange: The Underdog GOP Candidate For Governor
North Carolina state Rep. Holly Grange is competing against the sitting lieutenant governor, Dan Forest, to be the Republican nominee for governor in 2020.
33 min
January 09, 2020 Meet Holly Grange: The Underdog GOP Candidate For Governor
North Carolina state Rep. Holly Grange is competing against the sitting lieutenant governor, Dan Forest, to be the Republican nominee for governor in 2020. She says she is a "sensible" alternative — one who can bring the fight to Democratic incumbent Gov. Roy Cooper. On this edition of the WUNC Politics Podcast, the military veteran, former lawyer, and current lawmaker discusses rising tensions with Iran, her chances against Forest and Cooper, and how she'd get Democrats and Republicans to agree
33 min
January 04, 2020 A Ruling On Voter ID, A Coal Ash Settlement, 2020 Has Arrived
A judge put North Carolina's requirement that voters show photo ID on hold for now.
16 min
January 04, 2020 A Ruling On Voter ID, A Coal Ash Settlement, 2020 Has Arrived
A judge put North Carolina's requirement that voters show photo ID on hold for now. Duke Energy agreed to excavate millions of tons residue from burning coal - which will cost billions. And it's officially 2020! Rob Schofield of the progressive NC Policy Watch and Becki Gray of the conservative John Locke Foundation catch up with the first big political stories of the new year.
16 min
December 20, 2019 2019 In State Politics From The Left And The Right
There was a flurry of political retirements (some spawned by redistricting), followed by a rush of candidate filings as the year came to a close in North Carolina.
24 min
December 20, 2019 2019 In State Politics From The Left And The Right
There was a flurry of political retirements (some spawned by redistricting), followed by a rush of candidate filings as the year came to a close in North Carolina. 2019 was busy for the General Assembly, though the number of bills that became law won't show it. Republican lawmakers lost their supermajorities and the governor's veto got teeth. As for the decade: Republicans took full control of the Legislature, North Carolina emerged as a swing state, and there were court battles, court battles,
24 min
December 19, 2019 2019 Is The Year That Wasn’t In NC Politics
Historians will know 2019 as a year in which not a lot happened in the North Carolina legislature. Lawmakers did not pass a new state budget, despite holding the second-longest legislative session in state history. Gov. Roy Cooper was not able to expand Medicaid in the state, and the legislature did not pass any large social policies.
12 min
December 18, 2019 Former Chief Justice Henry Frye On His Career Of Firsts
The first black person elected to the North Carolina General Assembly in the 20th Century. ... First to win a statewide election. ... First to be the state's chief justice.
24 min
December 18, 2019 Former Chief Justice Henry Frye On His Career Of Firsts
The first black person elected to the North Carolina General Assembly in the 20th Century. ... First to win a statewide election. ... First to be the state's chief justice. But he had hurdles to jump to even enter civic life when he went to register to vote in the 1950s. Henry Frye, now 87, discusses public life, voter suppression, and one way to a long marriage on this episode of the WUNC Politics Podcast.
24 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.