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2014 NC Election Coverage

Stories and features about North Carolina candidates, voters, and the politics of the 2014 mid-term elections. Polls are open across N.C. until 7:30 p.m. on election day, November 4.

NC State Budget Update

WUNC | By Laura Lee,

Frank Stasio

Published June 11, 2014 at 12:14 PM EDT

North Carolina House leadership has proposed a $21.1 billion budget. The plan gives teachers a five percent pay raise and does not require educators to give up career status. The Senate plan offers a larger raise but eliminates career status. The House and Senate plans also differ on Medicaid management. Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC Capitol Bureau chief Jessica Jones about the budget proposals.

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Laura Lee

Laura Lee was the managing editor of The State of Things until mid February 2017. Born and raised in Monroe, North Carolina, Laura returned to the Old North state in 2013 after several years in Washington, DC. She received her B.A. in political science and international studies from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2002 and her J.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law in 2007.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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