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WUNCPolitics Podcast: The End Of the 2017 Legislative Session

WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNC
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNC
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016

This week on the WUNCPolitics Podcast, a conversation about the end of the 2017 Legislative session, which wrapped up early Friday morning after five and a half months.

Among other issues, lawmakers this week voted to override the Governor's veto and began discussing possible impeachment against North Carolina's Secretary of State, and there was a stalemate on energy issues.

Becki Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, and Rob Schofield, of NC Policy Watch, join WUNC's Jeff Tiberii to discuss the week's news.WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks with Becki Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, and Rob Schofield, of NC Policy Watch, about the week's news.

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Jeff Tiberii first started posing questions to strangers after dinner at La Cantina Italiana, in Massachusetts, when he was two-years-old. Jeff grew up in Wayland, Ma., an avid fan of the Boston Celtics, and took summer vacations to Acadia National Park (ME) with his family. He graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, and moved to North Carolina in 2006. His experience with NPR member stations WAER (Syracuse), WFDD (Winston-Salem) and now WUNC, dates back 15 years.