Headliners of the Year for 2024
Host Dawn Vaughan and reporters Avi Bajpai and Korie Dean talk about their picks for Headliners of the Year, from the UNC protests to Gov. Cooper leaving office to changes at the legislature. Guests: ...
23 Dec 202420min
The NC GOP's latest veto override and a look ahead to immigration in 2025
Host Dawn Vaughan talks with Claudia Rivera Cotto, a reporter at Enlace Latino NC who covers political, government and immigration issues, about concerns facing immigrants in North Carolina with recen...
16 Dec 202420min
Another veto override is on the horizon. What does it mean for the power balance?
For the week of Dec. 9, 2024, Dawn Vaughan talks to News & Observer colleagues Korie Dean and Kyle Ingram about what you can expect this week on the House override vote of Senate Bill 382, the bill th...
9 Dec 202421min
Senate Bill 382: The bill that’s less about Helene disaster relief and more about taking power
For the week of Nov. 25, 2024, host Dawn Vaughan talks with News & Observer colleagues Avi Bajpai, Kyle Ingram and Adam Wagner about the veto override of House Bill 10 on immigration and vouchers, as ...
25 Nov 202424min
What to expect from North Carolina's new superintendent + a legislative session preview
For the week of Nov. 18, 2024, host Dawn Vaughan is joined by politics team colleague Avi Bajpai and News & Observer K-12 schools reporter Keung Hui. For the first half of the episode, Hui explains t...
18 Nov 202423min
Talking downballot NC races from Election Day: Courts, Council of State & General Assembly
For the week of Nov. 11, 2024, Dawn Vaughan is joined by politics team colleagues Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi, Kyle Ingram and Korie Dean in part two of our post-Election Day look at the North Caroli...
11 Nov 202422min
Bonus Episode - Another North Carolina split ticket: The presidential, governor's & attorney general races
In this post-Election bonus episode of the Under the Dome podcast, News & Observer Capitol bureau chief and podcast host Dawn Vaughan talks to D.C. correspondent Danielle Battaglia, state politics rep...
6 Nov 202420min
Election Week is finally here, and we’re ready for it. Here's what to know.
In our latest Under the Dome podcast episode for the week of Nov. 4, 2024, host Dawn Vaughan talks to politics team colleagues Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi and Kyle Ingram about all the last minute in...
4 Nov 202418min
