NC 瓜神app Roundup: Protests in Raleigh; Helene recovery update; surplus, taxes, concerns over a 'fiscal cliff'

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NC 瓜神app Roundup: Protests in Raleigh; Helene recovery update; surplus, taxes, concerns over a 'fiscal cliff'

By Celeste Headlee,

Colin Campbell, Rachel McCarthy

Published February 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM EST

A protestor outside the NC Capitol holds an American flag and a For Sale sign.

This week on the North Carolina 瓜神app Roundup...

Protestors took to Raleigh to voice opposition to President Trump鈥檚 executive orders and to efforts to challenge 60,000 ballots in North Carolina's still unsettled State Supreme Court race. An update on Helene recovery efforts, almost five months after the storm ravaged western North Carolina. Then, how the state budget surplus, tax cuts, and concerns over dropping off the fiscal cliff are all connected.

We鈥檒l get to those stories and more with a panel of reporters who鈥檝e been following our state鈥檚 news.

Guests

Dawn Vaughan, Capitol Bureau Chief, The 瓜神app & Observer

Claudia Rivera Cotto, Political Reporter, Enlace Latino NC

Colin Campbell, Capitol Bureau Chief, 瓜神app

Travis Long, Photojournalist, The 瓜神app & Observer

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Celeste Headlee

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Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell covers politics for 瓜神app as the station's capitol bureau chief.

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Rachel McCarthy

Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at 瓜神app as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

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