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This Week In NC Politics: State Board Of Elections, Cambridge Analytica And Gun Regulations

WUNC | By Jeff Tiberii
Published March 23, 2018 at 2:58 PM EDT
This week in state politics, an analysis of Gov. Roy Cooper's first State of the State address.
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This week in state politics, an analysis of Gov. Roy Cooper's first State of the State address.

For the first time since 2016, North Carolina has a state board of elections. The nine-member panel was seated on Wednesday.

Also this week, questions emerged about money that the 2014 Thom Tillis U.S. Senate campaign spent on Cambridge Analytica. And, a proposals for new gun regulations was rolled out by Democrats, who called the issue non-partisan.

Becki Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, and Rob Schofield, with NC Policy Watch, discuss some of this week's stories with WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii.WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks with Becki Gray of the John Locke Foundation and Rob Schofield of N.C. Policy Watch about the week's political news.

 

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Jeff Tiberii
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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