Radio Interviews

Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling

Early voting in the 2022 midterm elections commences in just a little over two months. We get a sense of where some key contests with one of the nation’s top pollsters, Tom Jensen of Public Policy Polling

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Noel Nickle and Nick Courman of the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

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Congresswoman Kathy Manning discusses reproductive freedom, marriage equality, and takeaways from the Jan. 6th committee

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Attorney Whitley Carpenter of Forward Justice discusses the end of felony disenfranchisement and unlocking the vote

Learn more about the campaign here: https://unlockourvotenc.org/

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Wake County Board of Commissioners chairman Sig Hutchinson on the county’s creative and determined work to tackle opioid abuse

Learn more about Wake County’s share of the National Opioid Settlement.

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Education advocates Matt Ellinwood and Letha Muhammad on why an upcoming hearing before the state Supreme Court likely represents one of the last best chances for North Carolina to preserve and rebuild its public schools

Attorney Matt Ellinwood of the Justice Center’s Education & Law Project and Letha Muhammad of The Education Justice Alliance

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States Newsroom democracy reporter Kira Lerner discusses why Republican-led legislatures are enacting a raft of new criminal laws related to elections

Read Lerner’s two part series on Criminalizing the vote here and here.

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Jim Hoffman, president and founder of American Heroes for North Carolina, discusses how Medicaid expansion would dramatically help veterans and their families

Learn more about the organization here.

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg public school teacher and education policy analyst Justin Parmenter discusses some mysterious and troubling efforts to promote a new and controversial teacher licensure and pay plan

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UNC infectious disease expert Dr. David Wohl discusses the state of the COVID pandemic and the latest on the spread of the Monkeypox virus

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State Rep. Deb Butler on the shortcomings of the new state budget, the future of reproductive care, and the never-ending effort of Republican legislative leaders to amass and consolidate more and more power

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Jina Dhillon of the Triangle-based global reproductive health organization IPAS on what experience in other countries teaches about the destructive impact that the reversal of Roe v. Wade will have on the health of American women

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Criminal justice reform advocates Quisha Mallette and Lauren Robbins discuss efforts to curb a predatory industry that tries to take advantage of law enforcement mugshots

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Veteran Wake County State Representative Grier Martin reflects on his long and honorable tenure in the General Assembly as he takes on a new professional challenge at the Pentagon

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Southern Coalition for Social Justice co-executive director Allison Riggs discusses the potential impact of Moore v. Harper

In Moore vs. Harper, the GOP lawmakers advance the truly frightening idea that state courts have, effectively, no authority to review the legality of decisions that state legislatures make when it comes to federal elections.Southern Coalition for Social Justice co-executive director and chief counsel for Voting Rights Allison Riggs discusses the implications of the pending case.

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NC Budget and Tax Center director Alexandra Sirota on new state budget legislation approved by the General Assembly and why it comes up short in numerous important ways

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