Next Vote for Neighborhood Schools

Lori Millberg, former Wake County School Board Member talks about the school board setting next Tuesday as the date for the next vote.

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Healthcare Summit Analysis

CBS Political Correspondent Dotty Lynch gives us her perspective on the effect of the President's Healthcare summit yesterday.

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End of Election Filing Season

Dr. Andy Taylor, Professor & Chair of Political Sciences, discusses the filings and who has filed for what offices.

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Bipartison Health Summit

CBS Correspondent Bob Fuss reports from Washington for the latest on Obama's latest health summit.

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SC Senator Gets a Misdemeanor For Shooting

Rick Henderson, of the Carolina Journal, discusses the minimal fine and no jail time that NC Senator Soles will not be dealing with after shooting a man.

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School Board Member Stes the Record Straight

Wake County School Board Member Debra Goldman sets the record straight, explaining her actual position on the Diversity plan as opposed to earlier reports she felt misrepresented her stance.

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Former Prosecutor's Sentencing NOT the End for "Fixed" Tix

Johnston County DA, Susan Doyle, discusses former Prosecutor Cyndi Jaeger's case, the confession of fixing DWI Tickets, and her plans to track down all those who befitted and make them pay their due sentences and fines.

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Jobs Bill Passing Today..?

CBS Jobs/Economy Expert Steve Greenberg updates us on the Senate Jobs Bill. Will it make a difference?

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What's the Delay? Community Allance Leader Weighs In

Joe Ciulla, of Wake County Schools Community Alliance Leader, discusses the delay in the school board's decision on whether or not to keep Del Burns on until his now announced retirement (Due to comments made and press interviews concerning the new school board)

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Former School Board Candidate Backs Del Burns

Carlene Lucas, former candidate for the Wake County Schoolboard, voices her support and opposes the ouster of Superintendent Del Burns.

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Superindent's Waiting for Verdict; NAACP Head Weighs In

Ronald White, President of the South Central Wake County NAACP Chapter, gives us his take on last night's closed door meeting on the fate of Del Burns (Retiring Wake County School Superintendent)

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McCrory's Campaign Flights

Former Mayor Pat McCrory get's investigated in the ever widening sweep by authorities to investigate campaign contributions and flights.

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Toyota Hearing Update

Detroit CBS Correspondent Jeff Gilbert discusses the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee hearing held for Toyota today.

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Local NAACP on Impending Superindent Vote Tonight

Ronald White, President of the South Central Wake County NAACP Chapter, talks about his expectations on tonight's School Board meeting to decided the fate of Superintendent Del Burns.

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Upcoming Health Summit from The Republican Perspective

Sen. Richard Burr checks in to gives us his thoughts, expectations and hopes for the upcoming Obama Healthcare Summit.

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Obamacare 2.0

CBS Washington Correspondent Mark Knoller checks in to give us the scoop on Obama's latest proposal, giving the Government the power to regulate rate hikes and pricing by Health Insurance companies.

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Former NC Prosecutor's Sentencing

Cyndi Jaeger is facing the music for illegally dismissing traffic cases and "fixing" citations, Frank Perry (Foundation for Ethics in Public Service) weighs in on her sentencing.

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New Healthcare Bill 2.0

Dr. Bob Moffit, Director of the Center for Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, gives the conservative take on the newly re-proposed bill from President Obama.

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The Credit Card Act

Curtis Arnold, founder of cardratings.com, discusses the ramifications of the newly passed Card Act and the benefits and downfalls for YOU.

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Replace Del Burns Now

Joe Ciulla (Wake County Schools Community Alliance Leader) calls to explain why his group is calling for the immediate removal of Wake County School Superintendent Del Burns.

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Outgoing Wake County Superintendent Attacks Board

John Tedesco, recently elected Wake County School Board Member, gives his response and stand on Del Burn's (Wake School Superintendent) barrage of press conferences and statements regarding his reasons for stepping down in June...

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Illegals Able to Legally Attend Community Colleges

NC Listen's Ron Woodard fills us in on The North Carolina Board of Community Colleges proposed policy to allow illegals into college classrooms.

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Final Vote For Illegals to Go to NC Comm. Colleges for Free

NC Listen's Ron Woodard discusses the issue of illegal aliens being allowed to attend NC Community Colleges. The final vote on this hot button topic happens tomorrow, hear his views Today...

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Mangum Charged for Attempted Murder, Arson & More

Joe Cheshire, a lawyer involved in Crystal Mangum's earlier case with the Duke Lacrosse Rape, as well as more recently the Greg Taylor case, tells us how he feels about Crystal's recent arrest and a little on his involvement in the Taylor case yesterday.

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"Get Out Of Our House!"

Tim Cox, Founder of GOOOH! (Get Out Of Our House) wants to replace ALL members of the House of Representatives by 2010.

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Wake County DA on the Greg Taylor Case

Wake County District Attorney on his role in the Greg Taylor case. Mr Taylor is the first man to be freed through the NC Innocence Inquiry Commission for a crime he wrongly served over 16 years; a crime Mr. Willoughby was required by Law to try and keep him in prison for in his capacity as DA...

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Gov. Perdue Not Learning From Her Old Boss's Mistakes?

"Jaw Dropping" allegations are made that Perdue's flight records may not be in order, nor some of her other financial records required by law, this right after her own predecessor is on the hot seat for many of the same mistakes. But then, she has many of the same employees.. .Who's actually running the show..? Democratic Consultant Joe Sinsheimer gives us his take and actually is holding his own party accountable.

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Innocence Commission Makes History

Bill speaks with former Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake about the exoneration of Greg Taylor due to the Innocence Commission Judge Lake helped found.

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State Borad Investigating Gov. Beverly Perdue

State Board of Elections launches it's own investigation into Gov. Perdue's campaign finances. Joe Sinsheimer, Democratic Consultant, weighs in...

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Wake Taxpayers Paying For Abortions?

Wake County's present employee insurance covers elective procedures, such as Abortions... Wake County Commissioner Stan Norwalk explains current policy and what is being suggested to make changes.

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Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann

On the one year Anniversary of the Recovery Act.

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More Reaction to Wake Superintendent Surprise Resignation

Lori Millberg, a former Wake County Schoolboard member, talks about her feelings on Del Burn's retirement, whether the current environment with new board members effected his decision and even a fairly surprising flurry of responses to an unexpected series of questions about the SAS report.

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More Reaction to Wake Superintendent Surprise Resignation

Lori Millberg, a former Wake County Schoolboard member, talks about her feelings on Del Burn's retirement, whether the current environment with new board members effected his decision and even a fairly surprising flurry of responses to an unexpected series of questions about the SAS report.

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Senetenced to Life, or Does Good Behavior Cut It?

Dr. Stephen Prescott, Wake Tech Law Professor, hashes out the State Supreme Court hearing today regarding the 1970's law that may allow inmates, sentenced to Life, to be released early for "Good Behavior" credits.

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Response to School Superintendent's Resignation

Former Wake Co. School Board member Lori Millberg gives her reaction to the surprise announcement of Superintendent Del Burns' resignation.

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Global Warming or Not?

The other day, a caller told Bill he should go to JunkScience.com, there he would find the proof he needed to see that Global Warming was fake. Now Bill could do this (And he did glance), but being as how we know Steve Milloy, the owner of the site, we figured the source was better than our interpretation...

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Taliban's #2 Capture

Air Force General Burt Moore (Ret) gives his take & analysis on the recent capture of the Taliban's #2 by Pakistani forces.

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It's Still a Tax Increase...

Mayor Charles Meeker proposed a smaller than originally planned tax increase to fund the new safety center downtown.

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Global Warming in the Midst of Winter Advisories

Kassidy Fisher, with "Environment NC (A Global Warming Advocacy Group), discusses the continuing validity of Global Warming with all the winter conditions seen across the US as of late.

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Beaufort County Students Right to An Education

Justice Robert Orr joins us to discuss the recent suspension of students in Beaufort County; does the State still owe them an education per law or is it now up to the parents to provide..?

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On Roy Williams Haitian Comments

Bob Lee offers commentary &rebuttal on Williams recent comments that have stirred up such an uproar...

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Rift Growing Between Pelosi & Obama

Patrick O'Conner, Congressional Reporter for Politico, discusses the possible rift growing between the Speaker of the House and the President.

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Ron Margiotta discusses Year-Round Schools Survey

Wake County School Board Chair, Ron Margiotta discusses the year-round school survey and publication of the respondents contact information. **We experienced several phone interruptions during the first part of the interview with Mr. Margiotta, his call dropped twice in fact. The posted clip is from the live segment after we re-established contact.

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The "Missing" 30 Seconds.... (Lawson/Roche Debate)

Yesterday we had BJ Lawson and Frank Roche, contenders for the 4th District NC Congressional seat, in the studio for a brief debate. After a response to a caller from Mr. Lawson we paused our studio recording to go to a break. Mr. Roche started talking before we could cue this traffic segment, so we let him get out his thought and started the music as he was wrapping up. Everything was heard on the air on WPTF which is what we do. Since the posted Blog did not have this comment though, and since we keep a lower quality logger that records all WPTF programming, we are able to post this "Missing" time.

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Global Warming Controversy

Joe Bastardi, Meteorologist and former WPTF correspondent, speaks on the new focus on the Global Warming Controversy.

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Remembering Charlie Wilson

Bill talks to CBS Correspondent, Bob Fuss about the passing of former Congressman Charlie Wilson and how his life in D.C. became a movie.

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Weather Conditions Down the Seaboard

Bill checks in with Ian Bush of KYW NewsRadio Philly about their recent blizzard, then Mike Hughes from Progress Energy NC on wind damage around the state.

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Replacing Congressman Price? Next Wave as Election Cycles Up

4th District candidates, Frank Roche & BJ Lawson, vie for Congressman Price's seat. On LuMaye @ 4:40pm 2/10/10

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Obama's Job Meeting - Any Hope?

CBS Correspondent, Bob Fuss gives Bill an update on President Obama's bi-partisan "jobs meeting" earlier today.

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Sen. Burr on Healthcare Summit

Senator Richard Burr discusses President Obama's invite to a Healthcare Summit.

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SC First Lady Jenny Sanford

Jenny Sanford oins us on the show discussing her divorce, the soon to be ex-Governor Mark Sanford and her upcoming book on their 20 year marriage and it's ending...

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N.C.G.O.P Chair asks for Perdue Cabinet Resignations

Tom Fetzer, Chair of the State Republican Party asks for the resignation of two of Governor Perdue's Cabinet Members, hear why?

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Changing Direction of US Space Program

Irwin Shapiro (From the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) discusses recent budget cuts and it's effects on NASA's mission.

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Dr. Mike Munger Under Investigation?!?!

NC Board of Elections investigates 2008 Gubernatorial campaign flights, including Libertarian candidate, the Knower of Important Things: Dr. Michael Munger.

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Hand Over That Video!

WPTF News Director, Rick Martinez gives Bill the scoop on Andrew Young's day in court and the order for Mr. Young to hand-over the sex video.

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Recent Unemployment Rates (Now with Super Bowl Picks)

The newest numbers and figures, and what they will mean to me and you. Dr. Mike Walden of NC State offers his analysis and thoughts. Bill and Mike also offer up their predictions for this week's game. Who knows better, the Economist or the Talk Show Host..?

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NC History Curriculum Changes, Common Sense or Controversy

Rebecca Garland, Chief Academic Officer for the NC Dept. of Public Instruction, joins Bill to discuss newly proposed curriculum changes. Some of these changes, like adding Global Studies for "Reexamining the role of their country within new global complexities," and having 11th Graders learning Federal History from only 1877 are beginning to draw fire.

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Defense Department Probing Mental Health in NC

Congressman Walter Jones has asked for a probe on possible retaliation on a whistleblower concerning Marine mental healthcare.

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Ongoing Toyota Recall

CBS Correspondent Jeff Gilbert talks about the ongoing Toyota recall, plus the new addition of Brake problems with the Prius.

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SLim Jim Garner Plant Decision Mulled

John Bresland, Chairman of the Chemical Safety Board, discusses new proposed changes to avoid a repeat of the Garner plant explosion. Meeting tonight at the Downtown Raleigh Sheraton (2/4/10) @ 6pm to announce final decisions of the Board.

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NC to Teach History from 1877..?

Terry Stoop (John Locke Foundation) discusses proposed changes to North Carolina History & Social Studies Classes. New focuses are to be on Global Awareness Studies and modern issues like the Environment and to teach US history in 11th Grade starting from approx. 1877.

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Renovate the old Public Safety Center...

Raleigh City Councilman, Bonner Gaylord, discusses the latest idea to scrap the new Safety Center plans for downtown Raleigh and renovate the existing one.

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Sudden Acceleration - What to do if it happens to you!

Thomas Owen of TAO Auto talks to Bill about the Toyota recall and what to do in an emergency if your car accelerates out of control.

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No Abortion Coverage for Insurance

Apex Mayor Keith Weatherly speaks on recent decision to remove Abortion option from city employee's Health Coverage.

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Bob Lee on Texting

A tongue in cheek look at modern problems through the eyes of Comedian and Internet Legend to Be, Bob Lee.

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Civil Rights Museum Opening

Scott Briggaman (NCNN) is on hand for the opening of the new Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, NC.

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Stimulus 2.0?

Francis DeLuca, of the Civitas Institute, talks about the recent poll on whether or not people want another round of stimulus.

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