North Carolina's election season continues to ramp up with Andy Jackson of the John Locke Foundation providing his weekly look at absentee voting and voter registration trends across the state Meanwhile former Charlotte City Council member Tiawana Brown has been sentenced to months in federal prison for COVID relief fraud while the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted - to terminate Superintendent Crystal Hill Theresa Opeka of Carolina Journal joins the program to discuss Wake County commissioners' - vote approving the proposed Atrium-WakeMed combination which still faces additional regulatory review State Treasurer Brad Briner is criticizing the deal raising concerns about healthcare
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