It's 505 and welcome in to a Friday edition of the Carolina Journal News Hour, news stock 1110-993 WBT. I'm Nick Craig. Good morning to you. It has been a busy month in North Carolina politics. Two major U.S.
Senate announcements: former Democrat Governor Roy Cooper and the current head of the Republican National Committee, former head of the NCGOP Michael Watley, running on the Republican side. We'll dive into some details out of our most recent Carolina Journal poll this morning, showing some details into that race to walk us through it. David Larson joins us from CarolinaJournal.com. David, a busy three or four weeks here in North Carolina politics. What does our Carolina Journal poll show this morning about this race, which I'll note is all the way in November of next year?
Yes, so we got some results in, talked to 600 likely general election voters from North Carolina. And it looks like, you know, not too surprising. It's kind of a preliminary look.
So a lot is obviously going to change. But that preliminary look is probably what a lot of people expected, which is. a fairly well polling governor. who was able to win over a lot of unaffiliated voters and Bill of the Road voters is polling ahead of a fairly unknown uh Republican Likely general election challenger is still primary season, but he's been endorsed by Trump, and it doesn't look like there's any. major challenge to him.
In the works from another Republican, but I think maybe the big takeaway, so it was 47 for Cooper and 39. Um for Watley, but A big takeaway there is that when asked about favorability for Cooper and Wally. Um blotly Fifty one percent of people said they had never even heard of Wally.
So that's that's a That's a number that gives opportunity to both sides, obviously, because.
Now it's a race to Create either positive name ID or negative name ID are terms people use in politics. But it's not just about getting their name out there, but when that person first hears it, what kind of idea are you sticking in their mind about that person? I think from the Democrat perspective, they're obviously going to try to tie him really closely to Trump and hope that Trump's numbers will be bad by you know, midterms and Um I don't know what else there is to really go negative on him about because Yes. From all You know, signs of pretty quiet personal life and not have run for any major office before.
So I'm assuming a lot of the attack will be You know, based around a connection to Trump, which is which is a close connection.
So he might live. Rise or fall based on that. You know, and then um Republicans obviously will try to find some positive ways to identify them in the public's mind.
some some introduce them with some nice ads But as most political scientists will tell you, negative ads are more effective than positive ads. People, if you just say a bunch of nice things about yourself, they don't always just believe you in the same way as. If they hear a few negative things.
So it might be an advantage. A little bit to the Democrats there, just in that if more than half of people haven't heard of them, they can go. really hard negative early and hope that they can make some things stick against them.
So looking back at those top-line numbers, as you noted, 47.3 for Roy Cooper, 39 for Michael Watley, the current head of the RNC. It's about an eight-point spread between the two candidates. David, I saw some chatter on social media, on our Carolina Journal, Social Media.
Some folks are surprised that Roy Cooper's numbers weren't a little bit higher. As you just kind of walked us through, Michael Watley has a 50% of people haven't even heard of him.
So he's a relatively undefined candidate at this point. Roy Cooper has been in the public spotlight in North Carolina for well over two decades. Were you surprised with Cooper's 47%? Did you think that would be any higher, at least in his preliminary poll? I think when you're talking about a U.S.
Senate race, There's a lot of people who have Only voted Are pretty hard, you know, conservative voters or liberal voters. for that U. S. Senate seat, and they're used to trying to get their side to win. And so I think having him just right there under 50%, it's not too surprising to me.
Because when it comes down to it, Not a lot of Republicans that are partisan Republicans for the U.S. Senate. uh races and congressional races in the past Are probably going to want to vote for him for that.
So I think most of the people basically are going to come home to their party there. There's about, I think it was 9% that were. Undecided, and then another. uh almost four percent that were saying they might pick somebody else. I think some of those are maybe people who had had somebody else in mind for the primaries, but those people are also gonna Eventually, have to probably come home to one of the candidates.
Maybe there'll be a third-party candidate that jumps in. But I think that almost 14% of people if it's evenly distributed between the two of them would Would push. Cooper over the top at the moment.
So, Wiley's going to have to claim. you know, all of the outstanding Republican votes and a lot of that. uh undecided and Other vote to whereas Cooper doesn't have far to go to get that 50% plus one. Yeah, no question about that as we continue to watch this race unfold. One of Roy Cooper's strong suits, not only is his name ID, which is incredibly high in North Carolina, regardless of whether people like his policies or dislike his policies, they do know who he is.
So he's got that going for him. But David, when we look at his past two gubernatorial elections where he was successful, he was able to bring in some moderate and even some right-leaning unaffiliated voters to vote for him against Republican candidates in his two gubernatorial wins. How do you think something like that plays out as now we transition away from, yes, an important statewide race in governor, but a completely different animal when we talk about a United States Senate race from a money standpoint, from a media attention standpoint? How do you think some of that stuff plays out? I do think Republicans have a little bit more of an advantage for federal races.
you know i Whether it's a conscious thing or not, they've, other than Kay Hagan and John Edwards, You know, those were Democrats that won U.S. Senate. But other than that, for much of the recent history, it's gone with the Republicans. Just like for whatever reason, North Carolinians will attorney general, Republicans have pretty much never won that since the Civil War period, and governor very rarely.
So For whatever reason. North Carolinians tend to favor the swing voters among people. Most people have their. pretty devoted parties but For federal races, I think Even somebody who voted Cooper. I think you give maybe a slight edge to Republicans for these kind of U.S.
Senate races. We talked about Michael Watley's favorability versus unfavorability. I want to dive a little bit more into Roy Cooper's. 47.2 have a favorable viewpoint of him, while 39.7 rounding that up. Almost 40% say they have an unfavorable view.
When we talked about the former governor's announcement back a couple of weeks ago, David, we talked about some of those issues that could come back and haunt the governor. One of the big ones that you've already seen in some online social media advertising is COVID-19, some of the lockdowns associated with that. I would imagine that's probably a large portion of those unfavorable numbers that the governor is seeing in this very early preliminary poll. Yes, I think, yes, some of the they'll be able to consolidate a lot of conservative. That's an issue that really plays well with conservatives: COVID-19.
You know, as you and I just discussed before, I was always kind of surprised that it didn't play as well widely when you'd poll people on Cooper's response to COVID. He'd actually do fairly well during that whole thing. I think people were more forgiving maybe at the state level, or there was federal mandates, whatever it was. But I think they might have to pivot to some other things that play well more broadly. Um You know, obviously they're probably pulling these and and finding, you know.
Doing interest groups and finding which issues will play the best. But I think things like the Hurricane Helene response. And also other hurricanes where the They haven't still built the the homes and recovered. That's been NCORE, the state government agency that's responsible for that. Under him, did not.
You know, have very good results there. And then, so the DMV, maybe that's one that people have. Had a lot of complaints about. That was something under his North Carolina Department of Transportation, so maybe they could do ads about that. Um Yeah, there there's all the vetoes, maybe immigration things.
with sanctuary cities. Crime and things like that. I think they'll probably have a lot of issues to go on because he's been in. State, you know, either Attorney General or Governor. He had four terms as attorney general and two as governor.
So there's a long history, there's a bunch of issues. That they can pull, even maybe something from his attorney general days. There's sort of the rate kit. Issue that people were always saying, Oh, we've got to solve this, and then somebody get in and it wouldn't get solved. Um So yeah, there's quite a bit.
I don't know if if COVID will be the The final one, you know, once. Once it's a general election, it might work. I don't know. They probably will have to kind of reassess after running some ads on that for a while. Absolutely.
And as I noted at the beginning, this race is still very far away. The primary isn't until March of next year. And then, of course, the general election coming up in November.
So again, looking at those top line numbers, we are going to keep a very close eye on this United States Senate race as we transition into the fall and into the early parts of next year. We'll continue the conversation with David Larson on this most recent Carolina Journal poll coming up here in just a few minutes. As you continue and we continue, you're listening to the Carolina Journal News Hour. It's 520. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour News Talk 1110-993 WBT.
This week, the North Carolina Department of Commerce announced that its single-family housing program, also known as Renew NC, has received more than a thousand applications. This is dealing with Hurricane Helene recovery in the western half of the state, with construction expected to begin on the first home supposedly within the next month. The program is administered through the Department's Division of Community Revitalization, which is assisting in repairs and rebuilding of homes that were either completely or partially destroyed by Hurricane Helene. Governor Josh Stein said in the press release, too many families in western North Carolina lost their homes after Hurricane Helene. This program will help people rebuild their homes and their lives after the storm.
The Renew NC single-family housing program is supported by more than $807 million in federal funding and is designed to meet the remaining long-term recovery needs for homeowners in western North Carolina. That's according to the press release. The program prioritizes low to moderate income families living in communities that suffered severe storm damage following the most destructive storm in the state of North Carolina's history. North Carolina Commerce Secretary Lee Lilly said in a press release, Getting people home is where recovery really begins for survivors and their communities. And RENUNC is focused on getting our most vulnerable families home.
We will work closely. We will continue working closely with our local and state partners to make sure that recovery reaches every corner of the impacted areas in western North Carolina. According to a press release, since its launch, Renew NC teams have been working directly in communities to connect with residents and ensure recovery resources reach those who need it most. With offices now open in Asheville, Boone, and Marion, the program is also partnering with local governments, nonprofits, as well as trusted community organizations across the region. To date, Renew NC has conducted assessments on 207 properties, including those with unrepaired damage from Hurricane Helene.
According to the release, those evaluations provide critical information for environmental reviews and form the foundation for approving recovery applications. According to the director of Renew NC's single-family housing program, Maggie Ballanton. She notes, Renew NC teams are working tirelessly to reach families across western North Carolina in some of the hardest hit areas, from local intake centers to community events to door-to-door outreach. We are committed to ensuring people know that help is on the way. Applications continue open for homeowners in 29 counties.
I'm not going to read through all of those, but they include all of the counties in the western half of the state that were heavily impacted by Hurricane Helene. And I will note in Mecklenburg County, those in zip code 28214. The Renew NC program is supported by the Community Development Block Disaster Recovery Grant that came from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD. The $807 million has been allocated. To Renew NC is also part of a larger $1.4 billion grant that was allocated to the state for recovery and disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
Renew NC plans to launch two new housing initiatives: a multifamily housing program, which will support small rental projects with seven or fewer units, and large developments with eight or more units, as well as a workforce housing for ownership program, which aims to create affordable homeownership opportunities for a broader range of working households. The organization will also roll out an infrastructure and economic revitalization program in the months ahead as well. Homeowners seeking more information about this program can visit renewnc.org or visit one of those in-person locations. The links to all of that are on our website this morning, CarolinaJournal.com, or you can head on over to RenewNC. Unc.org.
As many folks are watching this process unfold, the hurricane recovery in the eastern half of the state under previous Democrat Governor Roy Cooper and Corps with Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. That is still on a lot of folks' minds, hoping that the state does not repeat some of those same mistakes that took place with Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. We'll keep an eye on this program as it does continue to roll out over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com, and right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour, where it's now 5:26, News Talk 11:10, 99.3 WBT. David, as we continue with some details on the poll this morning, it wasn't just this Senate race that we polled voters on. There's a variety and a litany of other issues that consumers are dealing with.
Tariffs have been a major topic over at CarolinaJournal.com and here on the Carolina Journal News Hour as well. Continued anxiety with increases in prices looming. Did we ask any questions about pricing and tariffs? And what did some of those responses look like? Yeah, um So this has been an issue for a while.
During Biden's term, there was kind of the term Biden inflation. That was something Republicans were able to kind of hang on his administration to really good effect. And I think maybe the Trump administration could have some liability or risk here around the tariff issue. As we look at some of the polling, we ask people, what kind of issues they're they're concerned about with their personal you know, finances and all that, debt, interest rates. all kinds of things.
But the ones that really rose to the top were on the cost of goods, including health care, but also bills, energy, grocery store costs were really high.
So those are the ones people picked as their things they're most concerned about. And we had another question too about whether you know um Interest rates or prices were something that was more affecting them because there's been some discussion about that. I think Trump has at times implied that maybe if the Fed would just lower interest rates back down, that would be a solution. But it looked like seventy three percent or so of people said a bigger problem was costs. uh than the interest rate so that was Also, an issue there.
And then, when we asked people about tariffs, about two-thirds of them said tariffs. you know we asked if they raise prices or not and they said they do raise prices. Uh so that that's It kind of shows that this is an issue people are concerned about, and in the general. You know, public's perspective, it's something that raises prices. I mean, it's almost by definition because it's an added tax on top of.
Um goods that you're buying.
So It doesn't necessarily mean everybody was against it because we had another question about for foreign trade policy. Would you rather have something that's more free trade and and encourages um you know, low tariffs and and low uh regulations on trade. Or would you like something that more protects American industries with subsidies and and tariffs. And it was it was, I believe, forty six to thirty five, something like that.
So there was a good chunk of it was closer at least when you asked them to pick between the two strategies. Um But I think people are weighing that. There's a few issues there, you know, that This might raise prices, but it also might bring back manufacturing jobs, or it might do something else I like, protect an industry.
So I think sometimes these polls. It's tough to get at all of those various angles of things people are weighing when they answer the question. One of the interesting things I took away, obviously, you look at prices and you talk about grocery stores, David, and some of the other inflated prices in the sector. There's not a whole lot that local or really even state government can do about that. That's more directives out of Washington, D.C.
But as you talked about a few minutes ago, housing. Yes, interest rates are not controlled locally, but zoning and construction and housing affordability is a big topic predominantly in some of our larger and medium-sized metropolitan areas across North Carolina. Many of them have elections coming up later this year in 2025. You'll see a lot of city and town councils that will be voted on coming up later this year. Seems like this affordable housing discussion here in North Carolina, as the state continues to be the number one state for business, a lot of folks flocking to North Carolina from around the rest of the country.
This is a major issue that actually local governments, David, are going to have to deal with less about what's going on at the federal level in D.C. and maybe even less. As to what's going on in Raleigh up at the General Assembly. Yeah, this is an interesting issue, housing, because you get so many different views even within parties.
So you get kind of strange bedfellows where you get on the conservative side, on the right, you'll get kind of your Yimby free market kind of people allying with a lot of urban. You know, progressives who want, you know, they want more housing available and all that. But then you also get. People on the left who are, you know, they want more regulations, they don't like gentrification or they don't, whatever, they don't want as much building, and those people kind of ally with. You might call NIMBY's on the right that wants suburban areas protected and their value of their home and their neighborhood kind of.
Locked in stone a little bit.
So it's interesting because it's hard to really pin down a particular partisan divide on this issue. But you know. John Locke Foundation being more free market, we would like to see, as you said, zoning and regulations, those kind of things loosened because. A lot of times, when people move to an area, their job might be in a big city, and things young people want to do might be in a city, and so they want to live kind of close. And if you make the zoning very rigid and you don't allow a lot of building, the city just expands further and further out.
It eats up a bunch of countryside. You know, that people in the rural areas start not liking that because then all of a sudden there's big developments popping up in rural areas. And traffic is worse because more people have to spend more time in their cars and have to extend roads and services further and further out.
So from a more free market perspective, we'd like to Allow the cities to, or you know, have more density in the cities so people can live where they're. kind of want to live and then it doesn't sprawl out and and cause more chaos further out. Yeah, we'll see how that plays out in these local elections with a lot of those zoning and regulations for new construction and permits across the state of North Carolina. There's a lot more that we didn't have a chance to get into this morning. You can read the full poll by visiting our website this morning, CarolinaJournal.com.
We've got a nice little poll tab right there on the navigation bar. We appreciate the update this morning. David Larson joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour. 539, welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour. News Talk 1110-993, WBT, I'm Nick Craig.
A good Friday morning to you. Earlier this week, the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, also known as EPA, announced a $409.4 million grant to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, that's NCDEQ, with its goal to improve local drinking water utility infrastructures so that public water systems may better withstand natural disasters. United States Senator Ted Budd, one of our two senators here in North Carolina, said in a press release, since Hurricane Helene struck last September, repairing Western North Carolina's damage infrastructure to be stronger and more reliable in the future has been a key component of all of the ongoing recovery efforts as Western North Carolina. North Carolina rebuilds. I am grateful to President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for their efforts to ensure North Carolina receives critical grant funding to reconstruct and reinforce the quality of our water systems, enabling our recovering communities to build more durable infrastructure.
This is a step in the right direction to aid reconstruction efforts and to mitigate future natural disasters. Also getting some commentary coming in from individuals on the ground. Russell Fox is the mayor of Burnsville, a small town in western North Carolina. He said in the press release, quote, Helene completely destroyed the town of Burnsville's raw water intakes, leaving residents, businesses, schools, medical facilities, and government agencies without water. The town is still running on a temporary pumping system until the primary intake system can be rebuilt.
The cost of providing water services to users has increased dramatically since the storm. The need for funding is always an issue, but even more so now. We need to strengthen our systems against disasters, and the EPA funding has given us the opportunity to do that. The town of Burnsville is very grateful. According to EPA, these funds are provided through the 2025 supplemental appropriations for Hurricane Helene, Milton, and Hawaii Wildfire.
And it is being administered here locally by the North Carolina Drinking Water State Revolving Fund. They may be used for projects to enhance drinking water treatment, improve water distribution systems, upgrade water supply sources, rebuild or replace or build finished water storage tanks, and complete other infrastructure improvements necessary to safeguarding public health through better drinking water systems. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin talked about the importance, noting, in February, I visited communities in Asheville to witness firsthand the crucial role drinking water utilities have in responding to natural disasters. This funding to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality will help secure the infrastructure of these systems to ensure that EPA can fulfill its core mission to protect human health and the environment. And quote there from EPA Administrator Lee Zeldon.
U.S. Senator Tom Tillis commenting on this on social media saying, as Western North Carolina continues to recover from Helene, the EPA's funding is an important investment in building stronger, more resilient water infrastructure. I appreciate Lee Zeldin's commitment to supporting our state as we work to rebuild critical infrastructure and make communities whole again. Those comments, again, coming in from Senator Tillis.
Some other comments coming in from Pam Snipes. This is the mayor of Old Forts saying, quote, the town of Old Forts water system was destroyed by Hurricane Helene. Fortunately, our citizens were provided water as quickly as possible, but it was provided with Band-Aid repairs. Over the last 10 months, the town has been working to make those repairs more efficient. And as we know, repairs are very expensive.
The availability of these funds. Funds will provide a way to ensure going forward that our water system will be a stable system in the event of another natural disaster. According to the press release under section 1452 of the Safe Water Drinking Act, states may use these funds to advance the Act's public health protection goals. The allocation will capitalize on that, and it is also set to provide potential low-interest loans, particularly with principal forgiveness to support the planning, design, and construction of qualified drinking water improvement projects. The North Carolina DEQ Secretary Reed Wilson said in a press release, Hurricane Helene severely damaged drinking water systems throughout western North Carolina, and thousands of people were without safe drinking water for weeks.
These investments will make drinking water systems more resilient for future storms, helping to ensure that communities have uninterrupted access to healthy water. Even though it has taken some time, as Helene affected our state back in September of last year, we are beginning to see. This process unfold and roll out here as this money, more than $409 million being granted to NCDEQ from the EPA. We've got some additional details and quotes on this story this morning over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com.
Well, as we have covered on and off throughout the week, Tropical Storm Erin continues her progress west across the Atlantic Ocean this morning. The National Hurricane Center noting as of their 5 a.m. advisory about 45 minutes or so ago that the storm is continuing to grow with maximum sustained winds now at 70 miles an hour. Erin is expected to become a hurricane. That is expected probably within the next couple of hours as we progress through your Friday.
Its movement continues west-northwest at 17 miles an hour. And all eyes are on the final track of the storm. Many of the computer models do have the storm splitting the gap. Between the coast of North Carolina and Bermuda, as we head into the middle and latter parts of next week, is when we would expect that to take place. Those models seem to be pretty consistent in showing the storm recurving around the United States and Bermuda and heading back out to sea as it is now expected to become a major category four hurricane.
The National Hurricane Center projects that to be the case coming up next Wednesday.
So a major category four hurricane.
Some likely increased rip current and high surf in our coastal communities as we watch the modeling and those computer systems continuing to show that track. If anything dramatically changes in that, If that track looks like it could put any part of our state or South Carolina in the risk, we'll keep you up to date with all those details right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour and, of course, on our website. If anything real breaking happens, you'll find those details over at CarolinaJournal.com.
Okay. Good morning again. It's 5:51. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, News Talk 1110-99.3. WBT recapping our big story this morning.
Our most recent Carolina Journal poll out yesterday shows some interesting details as we look ahead to the 2026 Senate race here in North Carolina. Of course, a lot of news over the last six weeks. Senator Tom Tillis announcing that he would not be seeking re-election, causing a huge vacuum to take place in that race. Since then, former Democrat Governor Roy Cooper has announced his intention to serve in that position. And current head of the RNC, former head of the North Carolina Republican Party, Michael Watley, has thrown his hat into the race on the Republican side, picking up the endorsement from President Donald Trump.
Our poll shows that 47.3% of voters would support Roy Cooper in that race if it were held today. 40% Say they would definitely vote for Cooper, while 7.3% say they probably would. Turning our attention to the Republican candidate in Michael Watley, 39.1% of voters say they would support him, about an 8% difference between Cooper and Watley, 24.7% definitely supporting the RNC chairman, while 14.4% say they would probably support him. About 10% of the voters do remain unsure or undecided in that race, and around 4% say they plan on voting for somebody else, potentially a third of party candidate. Diving into some additional details, the favorability for both candidates, Roy Cooper's favorability sits at 47.2%.
His unfavorability, rounding up to 40%, 39.7% there. 9% of people said they had no opinion of the former Democrat governor, and 4.2% said they had never heard of him.
So he's got a very high name ID and very high approval for that. On the other side, with Michael Watley, his favorability sits at 14.9%. Unfavorable, 11.3% in the largest group. 51.3% of voters say they have never heard of the current RNC, former NCGOP chairman, while an additional 22% said that they had no opinion on Michael Watley, his unknown. Name definitely playing out in this early poll.
We did ask a variety of other questions dealing with the economy, dealing with inflation and crime. All of those details are on our poll tab this morning, CarolinaJournal.com. You'll see it at the top of the page. It says news, opinion, and then polls. You can click on that and read through all of the details.
Donald Bryson, the CEO of the John Locke Foundation, said, North Carolina's race for Senate has only just begun, but the Watley campaign appears to have a lot of legwork in front of them if they want to be competitive. Cooper certainly has an advantage in this race, having held statewide office for 24 consecutive years. The name ID figures should not give either party heartburn or confidence. We will continue to attract this race as it continues to play out in the coming months and, of course, all the way through November of next year with additional polling and additional coverage of this race over on. our website CarolinaJournal.com.
In some statewide news this morning, the North Carolina Department of Commerce has announced that its single-family housing program, also known as Renew NC, has received more than 1,000 applications. And some of the positive news that they are reporting is that construction is expected to begin on the first homes within the next month. Renew NC rather is tasked with rebuilding and reconstructing and repairing homes in western North Carolina that were destroyed by Hurricane Helene in September of last year. Governor Josh Stein saying in a press release, too many families in western North Carolina lost their homes after Helene. This program will help people rebuild their homes and their lives after the storm.
The Renew NC Single Family Housing Program is supported by more than $807 million in federal funding and is designed to meet the remaining long-term recovery needs of homeowners in western North Carolina. The program prioritizes low to moderate income families living in communities that suffered severe storm damage following the most destructive storm in state history. Commerce Secretary Lee Lilly said getting people home is where recovery really begins for survivors and their communities. And Renew NC is focused on getting our most vulnerable families home. We will continue working closely with our local and state partners to make sure that recovery reaches every corner of the impacted areas in North Carolina.
To date, Renew NC has conducted assessments on 207 properties across western North Carolina, many of those remaining unrepaired from damage with Hurricane Helene. And the applications do remain open to homeowners in 29 counties spread across the central and western half of the state. This money is coming from HUD, the Housing and Urban Development, or the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, more than $807 rather than million dollars being allocated to Renew NC as part of a larger $1.4 billion. Community development block grant for disaster recovery. This program is remaining ongoing.
Again, the positive news is it looks like some construction or repairs could begin as soon as next month. That would be less than a year after the storm hit our state, and the program does remain open. Folks can visit renewnc.org this morning to find out additional details, including some in-person locations, offices set up in western North Carolina to help determine if a homeowner qualifies for assistance.
Well, that's going to do it for a Friday edition of the Carolina Journal News Hour. WBT News is next. Followed by Good Morning, BT. We're back with you Monday morning, 5 to 6, right here on News Talk 1110 and 99.3 WBT.
