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State lawmakers are back in Raleigh to begin what’s known as the short session – several months in which they’ll make adjustments to the state budget for the upcoming year and consider a variety of other legislation that didn’t make it across the finish line in the 2023 long session. One of the biggest partisan battles is likely to be over education funding: How much of the state's projected revenue surplus will go to public schools, and how much will address high demand for private school vouchers? Will the state address the funding cliff that childcare centers are experiencing as federal pandemic money expires?To sort through the issues facing lawmakers, WUNC's Colin Campbell spoke with Sen. Gale Adcock, D-Wake. Adcock, a longtime nurse practitioner, also discusses the state's healthcare policy needs in the months following the expansion of the Medicaid program.
Previous episodes
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722 - Previewing the 2024 legislative session with Sen. Gale Adcock Fri, 26 Apr 2024 - 0h
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721 - Social studies teacher from 'the Neglected Northeast' wins NC House seat Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 0h
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720 - Meet the ECU student who defeated a 10-term NC lawmaker Fri, 29 Mar 2024 - 0h
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719 - Making sense of NC's primary results Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 0h
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718 - Big changes for 2024 voters under new election laws Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 0h
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717 - NC 2024 primary: Races to watch on the Republican Party ballot Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 0h
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716 - NC 2024 primary: Races to watch on the Democratic Party ballot Fri, 02 Feb 2024 - 0h
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715 - Main Street NC: Murphy's struggle to quiet a cryptocurrency mine Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 0h
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714 - Main Street NC: Star's quest to replace 100-year-old infrastructure Fri, 05 Jan 2024 - 0h
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713 - Main Street NC: Lumbees help turn Robeson County toward GOP Fri, 15 Dec 2023 - 0h
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712 - Main Street NC: Hurricane-ravaged downtown rebuilds on higher ground Fri, 01 Dec 2023 - 0h
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711 - Main Street NC: 'Tremendous change' in the state's fastest-growing town Fri, 17 Nov 2023 - 0h
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710 - Main Street NC: The state's fastest-shrinking towns seek a turnaround Fri, 10 Nov 2023 - 0h
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709 - With new GOP-advantage redistricting maps, where do NC Democrats go from here? Fri, 27 Oct 2023 - 0h
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708 - A slew of environmental changes become law as NC lawmakers override vetoes Fri, 13 Oct 2023 - 0h
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707 - A long-awaited budget bill passes and casinos strike out Fri, 22 Sep 2023 - 0h
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706 - Happy hours and Sunday ABC store runs: NC reconsiders alcohol laws Fri, 08 Sep 2023 - 0h
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705 - Key senator talks budget delays, vetoes and eastern NC Fri, 18 Aug 2023 - 0h
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704 - Top NC House Democrat criticizes legislature's slow summer Fri, 11 Aug 2023 - 0h
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703 - Sen. Marc Basnight's legacy building the Outer Banks Fri, 28 Jul 2023 - 0h
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702 - NC House majority leader talks budget, hurricanes and the next speaker Fri, 21 Jul 2023 - 0h
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701 - Big elections changes are in the works for NC – but nothing's final yet Fri, 14 Jul 2023 - 0h
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700 - 2024 NC primary election preview Fri, 07 Jul 2023 - 0h
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699 - A look at bills you probably missed as NC legislature nears the finish line Fri, 30 Jun 2023 - 0h
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698 - A transgender perspective on NC sports, healthcare bills Fri, 23 Jun 2023 - 0h
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697 - An NC House moderate legislator's experience in a polarized House Fri, 16 Jun 2023 - 0h
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696 - Are proposed state employee raises enough to fix government's staffing crisis? Fri, 09 Jun 2023 - 0h
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695 - Can medical marijuana find support in the NC House? Fri, 02 Jun 2023 - 0h
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694 - The Senate budget's salary challenge, and an abortion veto override Fri, 19 May 2023 - 0h
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693 - Tackling NC's mental health challenges with $1 billion Fri, 12 May 2023 - 0h
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692 - Abortion, transgender restrictions dominate a busy crossover week at NC legislature Fri, 05 May 2023 - 0h
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691 - With shrinking revenues, NC lawmakers seek new ways to pay for transportation Fri, 28 Apr 2023 - 0h
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690 - House speaker talks abortion, marijuana – and a trip to Ukraine Fri, 21 Apr 2023 - 0h
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689 - Asian American legislators will form new AAPI caucus Fri, 14 Apr 2023 - 0h
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688 - Key NC House leader talks budget, party switch, and gambling Fri, 07 Apr 2023 - 0h
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687 - The legislative session begins, and a podcast host says goodbye Wed, 25 Jan 2023 - 0h
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686 - A 2022 North Carolina politics year in review Fri, 16 Dec 2022 - 0h
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685 - Where do NC Democrats go now? Wed, 14 Dec 2022 - 0h
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684 - Power returns, Tillis negotiates, and justices consider a new normal Fri, 09 Dec 2022 - 0h
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683 - Is SCOTUS holding a democracy grenade with Moore v. Harper? Tue, 06 Dec 2022 - 0h
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682 - Legislative leadership unchanged, a major federal elections case heads to SCOTUS Fri, 02 Dec 2022 - 0h
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681 - Is a 'Digital Civil War' on the horizon? Wed, 30 Nov 2022 - 0h
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680 - Unpacking the midterms results Wed, 16 Nov 2022 - 0h
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679 - Election impacts Fri, 11 Nov 2022 - 0h
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678 - Election Day breakdown: GOP just shy of supermajority in NC House Wed, 09 Nov 2022 - 0h
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677 - Governor Cooper forms commission, Election Day predictions Fri, 04 Nov 2022 - 0h
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676 - A forecast for election night Wed, 02 Nov 2022 - 0h
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675 - Early voting in full swing, SCOTUS briefs pour in Fri, 28 Oct 2022 - 0h
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674 - An authentic longshot candidate Thu, 27 Oct 2022 - 0h
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673 - Political winds shift, another shooting aftermath Fri, 21 Oct 2022 - 0h