NC News Roundup: possible Medicaid cuts; limiting school cell phone use; potentially privatizing mass deportation

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NC News Roundup: possible Medicaid cuts; limiting school cell phone use; potentially privatizing mass deportation

By Jeff Tiberii,

Stacia Brown

Published February 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM EST

This week, a house committee approved a bill with bipartisan support that will limit cell phone use in the state鈥檚 public schools.

On this week鈥檚 NC News Roundup... Medicaid expansion may be on hold, following the new federal budget resolution. A house committee approves a bill that will limit cell phone use in the state鈥檚 public schools. We remember singer-songwriter Roberta Flack, a Black Mountain, NC native who passed away on February 24 at the age of 88. And Erik Prince, founder of the North Carolina-based private military company Blackwater, proposes privatizing mass deportation. Jeff Tiberii talks with a panel of journalists about those stories and more, on Due South.

Guests

Bryan Anderson, reporter, Anderson Alerts newsletter
Gary Robertson, North Carolina politics reporter, Associated Press
Lynn Bonner, investigative reporter, NC Newsline
Danielle Battaglia, Washington Correspondent, News & Observer/Charlotte Observer
Jay Price, military reporter, 吉彩网网站

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Jeff Tiberii

Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of 吉彩网网站's "Due South." Jeff joined 吉彩网网站 in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and 吉彩网网站鈥檚 Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary 鈥淩ight Turn,鈥� launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a writer and audio storyteller who has worked in public media since 2016, when she partnered with the Association of Independents in Radio and Baltimore's WEAA 88.9 to create The Rise of Charm City, a narrative podcast that centered community oral histories. She has worked for WAMU鈥檚 daily news radio program, 1A, as well as 吉彩网网站鈥檚 The State of Things. Stacia was a producer for 吉彩网网站's award-winning series, Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon and a co-creator of the station's first children's literacy podcast, The Story Stables. She served as a senior producer for two Ten Percent Happier podcasts, Childproof and More Than a Feeling. In early 2023, she was interim executive producer for WNYC鈥檚 The Takeaway.

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