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Political Junkie Ken Rudin

WUNC | By Laura Lee,
Frank Stasio
Published January 30, 2015 at 12:19 PM EST
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The North Carolina General Assembly is back to work in Raleigh and lawmakers are filing dozens of bills.

On the agenda: gay marriage licensing, abortion regulations and education funding. 

And North Carolina native Loretta Lynch seeks confirmation as the nation’s attorney general.  

Host Frank Stasio talks with Political Junkie Ken Rudin about the latest from the capitol and other news in national politics. 

PoliticsThe State of ThingsKen RudinNC General AssemblyGay MarriagePat McCroryThom TillisLoretta LynchU.S. Attorney GeneralAbortionEducation FundingPolitical Junkie
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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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