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A Look At The North Carolina Special Session And NC Midterm Races

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio,
Amanda Magnus
Published October 2, 2018 at 12:55 PM EDT
WUNC Political Reporter Rusty Jacobs talks with Becki Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, and Rob Schofield, with NC Policy Watch, about the week's political news.
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WUNC Political Reporter Rusty Jacobs talks with Becki Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, and Rob Schofield, with NC Policy Watch, about the week's political news.
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The North Carolina legislative building, where lawmakers will meet Tuesday to discuss hurricane relief.

State lawmakers hold a special session Tuesday to discuss the response to Hurricane Florence. Legislators will decide how much money to appropriate for disaster relief while citizens and state agencies are still trying to tally up the damages.WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks with host Frank Stasio about the political atmosphere as legislators head into the special session.

Analytics company CoreLogic estimates the cost of Hurricane Florence and its aftermath to be between $19 billion and $28.5 billion.

Host Frank Stasio talks to WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii about the political atmosphere as legislators head into the special session. Tiberii also shares an update on federal and state races in North Carolina as the November midterm elections inch closer.

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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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Amanda Magnus
Amanda Magnus grew up in Maryland and went to high school in Baltimore. She became interested in radio after an elective course in the NYU journalism department. She got her start at Sirius XM Satellite Radio, but she knew public radio was for her when she interned at WNYC. She later moved to Madison, where she worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for six years. In her time there, she helped create an afternoon drive news magazine show, called Central Time. She also produced several series, including one on Native American life in Wisconsin. She spends her free time running, hiking, and roller skating. She also loves scary movies.
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