Ashley and Aaron are joined by Daniel Johnson, who’s working with Ashley to organize a pro-gun rights rally in Hillsborough. (Saturday, July 21, 10 am to noon on the old courthouse lawn.)
It’s Juneteenth, an important day in U.S. history – but Anna’s more concerned about critical civil rights issues in the present, including numerous election-law bills in the General Assembly.
Good-versus-evil all around: Tom discusses a new national poll on the 2018 and 2020 elections, and we preview the UNC/Oregon State matchup at the College World Series. (Also, the age-old question: LeBron or MJ?)
It’s Flag Day! Also: landmark Supreme Court decisions, an historic birthday we eventually remember – and Scott previews an event next week to commemorate the Regulators who were executed in Hillsborough in 1771.
As local officials hoped, the General Assembly’s “technical corrections” bill tweaked the new budget’s language to reopen the door for the Durham/Orange light rail project.