Full Show: State of Conflict: North Carolina
January 3, 2014
North Carolina, long considered the South’s most moderate state, has taken a hard right turn, but Moral Mondays protesters are fighting back. Is this where American politics is heading? Also on the show, the paint industry is ordered to clean up its mess.
The Best Reporting on the North Carolina Takeover
One of the biggest political stories of 2013 — a year of DC discord and gridlock — unfolded at the state level in North Carolina. In 2012, North Carolinians elected a Republican to the governor’s office. That same year, the Republican majority in the General Assembly — first elected in 2010 — grew to a supermajority. The result was that conservatives won the power to change state law dramatically
A Win for Children’s Health
Bill shares good news on the decades-long fight to protect children from the dangers of lead-based paint. When Bill spoke with public health historians Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner last year, they told him about a pending lawsuit brought by 10 California counties and cities against some leading companies in the paint industry. With the help of historical documents unearthed by Markowitz and