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This Week In NC Politics: The Redistricting Saga Continues

This week in state politics,  an analysis of Gov. Roy Cooper's first State of the State address.
Jeff Tiberii
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WUNC
This week in state politics, an analysis of Gov. Roy Cooper's first State of the State address.

This week in state politics, another development in the redistricting saga, and a congressional hearing on social media.

Rob Schofield of NC Policy Watch and Becki Gray, of the conservative John Locke Foundation, discuss the special master who will redraw nine legislative boundaries, not withstanding the objections of Republican lawmakers.

Meanwhile, another chaotic week in Washington included members of a Senate Intelligence Committee grilling officials from Facebook and Twitter, over the role those companies played in the 2016 election.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 political 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.
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