How Senate Republicans will operate in 2023 (feat. former GOP staffer Pat Ryan)
In this episode of Under the Dome for the week of Jan. 23, 2023, N&O reporter Dawn Vaughan talks with former Republican Senate staffer Pat Ryan about what the supermajority means and his former boss, ...
23 Jan 202322min
What’s happening with the North Carolina State Health Plan?
In this episode of Under the Dome for the week of Jan. 16, 2023, News & Observer politics reporter and podcast host Dawn Vaughan talks with health reporter Teddy Rosenbluth and politics reporter Lucia...
15 Jan 202321min
First episode of 2023: The NC General Assembly is back this week!
In this episode of Under the Dome for the week of Jan. 9, 2023, News & Observer politics reporters Dawn Vaughan and Will Doran tell you what to expect as the North Carolina General Assembly comes back...
9 Jan 202324min
Outgoing Democratic Sen. Kirk deViere talks about his party's "political machine"
On this episode of Under the Dome for the week of Dec. 26, 2022, News & Observer reporter Dawn Vaughan interviews outgoing Cumberland County Sen. Kirk deViere, a Democrat who served four years. He los...
27 Des 202227min
Senate Republican Whip Jim Perry talks budget forecast, abortion and Medicaid legislation in 2023
Content warning: The following episode contains discussions of rape and abortion. Listener discretion advised. On this episode of Under the Dome for the week of Dec. 19, 2022, News & Observer politics...
19 Des 202226min
What U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross says about NC Congressional freshmen, Moore v. Harper
In this episode of Under the Dome for the week of Dec. 12, 2022, News & Observer politics reporter talks with U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross, a Raleigh Democrat, about North Carolina's Congressional freshmen,...
12 Des 202222min
The politics of NC's Big Poultry and its impact on neighbors and the environment
This week on the Under the Dome politics podcast, host Dawn Vaughan talks with the main reporting team behind a project by The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer, “Big Poultry.” Plus a sneak p...
5 Des 202223min
Write-ins, freshmen and vetoes. Oh, my!
In this episode for the week of Nov. 28, 2022, N&O reporters Dawn Vaughan and Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi talk about write-in votes, the former state senators who are now Congressional freshmen and G...
28 Nov 202216min
