Rusty Jacobs
Politics ReporterRusty Jacobs is a politics reporter for WUNC. Rusty previously worked at WUNC as a reporter and substitute host from 2001 until 2007. He returned to WUNC in 2017 after a nine-year absence during which he went to law school at UNC Chapel Hill and then served as an Assistant District Attorney in Wake County.
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The high court will consider whether to hear arguments over the conservative "independent state legislature" theory. -
TV stations in North Carolina have pulled controversial ads targeting Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Cheri Beasley. A lawyer with the powerful Democrat-aligned Elias Law Group wrote a letter to TV station managers in Raleigh and Charlotte urging them to pull the ads, saying they're false and misleading.
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TV stations in North Carolina have pulled controversial ads targeting Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Cheri Beasley.
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Despite bipartisan support in the Republican-majority state senate, House Speaker Tim Moore says medical marijuana legislation is unlikely to reach the floor in his chamber.
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Valerie Foushee overcame the loss of progressives' support to win the Democratic nomination for North Carolina's 4th Congressional District.
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This year’s primary elections in North Carolina were supposed to be in March. But a group of voters challenged the latest round of redistricting in court, arguing Republicans gave themselves an illegal partisan advantage. Now the new maps are in place, and the elections are set. They just need candidates.
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North Carolina's state and local elections workers are grappling with partisan mistrust rooted in 2020 election lies.
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Backing from the former president, and early polls showing him leading the GOP field ahead of the primary, could explain why he has not bother to attend the debates.
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Was bluegrass born in a western North Carolina radio station in the late 1930s?
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Among aficionados and fans of bluegrass, it's generally accepted that this quintessentially American genre of music was born in Nashville, Tennessee and was introduced by Earl Scruggs. But it's Kentuckian Bill Monroe who is known as the "Father of Bluegrass," not Scruggs. And just before Monroe went to the Grand Ole Opry, in 1939, he was performing regularly for a live 15-minute show called Mountain Music Time on WWNC, in Asheville, North Carolina.
