The Legislature Overrides McCrory's Vetoes

By Shawn Wen,

Published September 4, 2013 at 12:05 PM EDT

NC Legislative Building — N.C. Legislature Building

This week, the General Assembly overrode two of Governor McCrory鈥檚 vetoes on high profile measures. One measure requires drug testing for certain welfare recipients and the other loosens restrictions for seasonal workers. Host Frank Stasio speaks with 吉彩网网站's Capitol bureau chief Jessica Jones about the response to legislature's moves. In other political news, the State Board of Elections ruled yesterday on two controversial decisions by local elections boards. Host Frank Stasio talks with 吉彩网网站鈥檚 Raleigh bureau chief Dave DeWitt about the decisions.

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Shawn Wen joined the staff of The State of Things in March 2012 and served as associate producer until February 2014.

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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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