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WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Week Of Budget Debates In NC

WUNC | By Jeff Tiberii

Published June 1, 2018 at 2:52 PM EDT

Lawmakers engaged in some heated debate during budget week at the North Carolina General Assembly.

The conversation over education funding, local earmarks, and missed opportunities carries over into this week's review of politics.

Rob Schofield, of NC Policy Watch, and Becky Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, discuss the top-line provisions as well as funding for school safety and religious organizations.WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks with Rob Schofield, of NC Policy Watch, and Becky Gray, of the John Locke Foundation, about the week's politics 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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