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Looking Back On 2021: Health Care In NC

Tested - December 20, 2021 11:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Tested takes a look back at the year in health care in North Carolina.

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Looking Back On 2021: Politics In NC, Part 2

Tested - December 17, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Tested takes another look back at the year in Politics in North Carolina. On this episode: redistricting.

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Looking Back On 2021: Politics In NC, Part 1

Tested - December 15, 2021 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Tested takes a look back at the year in politics in North Carolina.

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The Past, Present, And Future Of Wood Pellets In NC

Tested - December 13, 2021 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Host Dave DeWitt talks to Celeste Gracia, WUNC's environment reporter, and David Boraks, climate reporter at WFAE, about the wood pellet industry in North Carolina.

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The Big Move

Tested - December 10, 2021 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
People moving from one residence to another is up nationwide by about 3 percent. But in hot markets, like many across North Carolina, moving rates are up well into the double digits.

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Is a new youth detention center what Durham County needs?

Tested - December 06, 2021 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Durham County plans to build a new youth detention center for an estimated 30 million dollars. But people in the community are skeptical about more dollars being put toward detainment for juveniles.

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As Cohen Announces Her Exit, A New Variant Arrives

Tested - December 01, 2021 11:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Host Dave DeWitt looks back at Dr. Mandy Cohen's legacy as North Carolina's DHHS Secretary - and what's next in the pandemic - with WUNC Health Reporter Jason deBruyn.

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How special education vacancies are depriving students with disabilities

Tested - November 29, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
As teacher vacancies continue to create problems, public schools in North Carolina are having a particularly hard time filling positions for special education.

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Me And My Muslim Friends: MENA, Whiteness & The U.S. Census

Tested - November 26, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Today on Tested, we introduce to our listeners the fantastic new podcast from WUNC: Me & My Muslim Friends

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Give Sarah Keys her flowers now

Tested - November 24, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Nearly seven decades after a Black Army private named Sarah Keys helped end discrimination on interstate buses, North Carolina is recognizing her nearly-forgotten civil rights case.

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Eye-popping endowment gains give universities unprecedented 'opportunity'

Tested - November 22, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Annual reports for university endowments are starting to come in and, in many cases, are indicating impressive gains in the last year. So what are universities' responsibility and parameters for using this money after a year of budget cuts?

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The State Budget: What's in it for education and health care?

Tested - November 19, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Host Will Michaels digs deep into the North Carolina state budget to unpack what's really in it for education and health care with WUNC reporters Liz Schlemmer and Jason deBruyn.

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A state budget is about to pass, finally

Tested - November 17, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
WUNC's Jeff Tiberii, Rusty Jacobs, and Will Michaels dissect the proposed North Carolina state budget.

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Building More Bars: Pulling back the curtain on jail construction in North Carolina

Tested - November 15, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
When counties consider building or expanding a jail, are they adequately weighing the potential benefits with the long term costs?

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One, two, or three shots?

Tested - November 12, 2021 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
COVID-19 booster shots and starting to become widely available in North Carolina. Meanwhile, doses for young children have been released, and about 40 percent of the state's population remains unvaccinated.

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How should NC schools spend their COVID relief money?

Tested - November 10, 2021 12:12 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
The $5.5 billion North Carolina schools got in COVID relief funds is the single highest boost to K-12 funding in state history. But there are rules on how they can spend it and challenges in getting some projects off the ground.

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Counted While Incarcerated: How prisons inflate political representation

Tested - November 08, 2021 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
In early November, lawmakers at the General Assembly passed the latest version of congressional and state legislative voting maps. But as legislators deliberated over district lines, they used data that included a group who are counted, despite being barred from the ballot box.

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Get to know Peter Hans, who may be the UNC System president for a long, long time

Tested - November 05, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Host Dave DeWitt speaks with Kyle Villemain, the Editor In Chief of The Assembly, about his profile of UNC System President Peter Hans.

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Six months after the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., has anything changed?

Tested - November 03, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
On April 21, 2021, deputies with the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office shot and killed 42-year old Andrew Brown, Jr., an unarmed Black man, in Elizabeth City, N.C. Six months later, have any law enforcement policies changed?

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"Fair" maps, gerrymandering, and another lawsuit

Tested - November 01, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Host Dave DeWitt checks in on the very latest in North Carolina redistricting with WUNC political reporter Rusty Jacobs

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Ouch! Animals get COVID vaccines at the NC Zoo

Tested - October 29, 2021 11:48 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro has administered first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to 33 of its animals.

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Behind The Lines, Part Four: A Fraught Past, An Uncertain Future

Tested - October 26, 2021 21:14 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Part four in a four-part series that examines redistricting in North Carolina

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Squeaky Clean: What It Takes To Eradicate Rats

Tested - October 22, 2021 09:23 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Most people want nothing to do with rats. They're pests, vermin with voracious appetites. But they're also clever, adaptable and so pervasive around the world, it's easy to forget that, in most places, rats are an invasive species.

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Behind The Lines, Part Three: Reckoning With Reform

Tested - October 20, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Part three in a four-part series that examines redistricting in North Carolina

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Around The Clock Childcare Blurs Lines Between Family And Caregivers...In A Good Way

Tested - October 18, 2021 09:18 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Most childcare facilities operate around parents and guardians who work some version of a 9-5 job. But not all. With help from our friends at the podcast Embodied, we learn about 24-hour childcare providers who answer the call, and the diversity of needs, for parents who travel or clock...

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"I Thought I Was The Only One In The World": Latina Converts To Islam

Tested - October 15, 2021 09:13 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Meet the newest podcast in WUNC's on-demand portfolio: Me & My Muslim Friends. The show explores nuances of identity within Muslim communities across the nation and the world. In this episode, host Yasmin Bendaas discusses a population of Muslims that is underrepresented in mainstream p...

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Behind The Lines, Part Two: The Pen vs. The Gavel

Tested - October 12, 2021 22:09 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Part two in a four-part series that examines redistricting in North Carolina

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Behind The Lines, Part Two: The Pen vs. The Gavel

Tested - October 12, 2021 22:09 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
Part two in a four-part series that examines redistricting in North Carolina

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Zoned In: Where Does Raleigh Go From Here?

Tested - October 11, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
WUNC's Kamaya Truitt talks with Mitchell Silver, former city planner for Raleigh, about the city's growth in the last decade, and how policies like zoning laws influence that community growth.

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Protecting North Carolina's Students From COVID-19

Tested - October 08, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 52 ratings
The North Carolina Watchdog Reporting Network examined COVID-19 policies in North Carolina’s school districts as we approach two months into this new year. And they found wide disparities in the way that districts across the state are choosing to protect their students.

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