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This Week In NC Politics: A Year In Review

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.

On this week's review of North Carolina politics, a review of the year in North Carolina politics. There were bitter partisan squabbles between the legislature and Governor Roy Cooper; economic developments; and a conclusion (sort of) to House Bill 2.

Rob Schofield, of NC Policy Watch, and Becki Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, discuss their takeaways of the year in state politics. And they also offer a glimpse of what lurks on the political horizon for 2018.WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii checks in with Rob Schofield, of NC Policy Watch, and Becki Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, about the year in state politics.

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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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