It's 505 and welcome in to a Thursday edition of the Carolina Journal News Hour on Charlotte's FM News Talk 107.9 FM. WBT, I'm Nick Craig. Good morning to you. We start off with what was a busy couple of days, or what has been, I should say, a busy couple of days in the North Carolina legislature. A lot to track there this morning.
We'll start with the North Carolina House passing legislation on Wednesday aimed at tightening the state's involuntary commitment process and addressing public safety concerns tied to untreated severe mental illness. This legislation, House Bill 1104, which is named Improve IVC or Involuntary Commitment Process and Enhance Public Safety, is now on its way to the North Carolina Senate. House Speaker Destin Hall. the Republican from Caldwell County said in a press release after the passage of the bill on Wednesday, recent tragedies like the preventable murder of Irina Zarutska have exposed serious failures in our mental health and public safety systems that put all North Carolinians at risk. I'm proud of the work the committee has done to move this legislation forward.
These changes will make our state safer by keeping dangerous criminals with mental illness off the streets and getting them the care that they need before they can harm others. The measure is sponsored by Representatives Timothy Reeder, the Republican from Pitt County, Hugh Blackwell, the Republican from Burke County, Charlie Miller, the Republican from Brunswick County, and Tricia Cotham, the Republican from Mecklenburg County. The legislation follows growing concerns over cases in which people with severe mental illness repeatedly encountered law enforcement, courts, and hospitals without subsistence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The House Select Committee was formed after several high-profile killings involving people with severe mental illness, with no question about it, the largest of those being the 2025 murder of Irina Zarutska in Charlotte.
The bill centers on reforming involuntary commitment, the legal process for mandating mental health treatment when individuals pose a danger to themselves or others. The current involuntary commitment system is seen as slow and inconsistent in moving people into treatment, unfortunately, before another crisis occurs, in which we have seen many instances where that is a one that is very violent. House Bill 1104 directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Information Technology, and the Administrative Office of the Courts to study the involuntary commitment process and recommend changes. That review would examine whether judges and magistrates receive timely clinical data. How to update electronic examination forms and petitions, whether the Department of Homeland Security and e-courts can better share information, and whether law enforcement should have access to certain involuntary commitment court records from the court system.
A report is due to the General Assembly on February the 1st or by February the 1st, 2027. The bill also directs the Department of Health and Human Services and the North Carolina Sheriffs Association to develop a statewide plan for using telehealth and county jails to complete first examinations for people in custody. Another section directs local management entities/slash managed care organizations and DHHS to develop a plan for using mobile crisis units to conduct initial examinations. A major portion of this bill targets the shortage of available psychiatric beds and Staff across the state of North Carolina. House Bill 1104 would require DHHS to develop a plan addressing the shortage of staffed behavioral health beds in in-state operated facilities, staffing deficiencies that limit existing capacity, and the possibility of using non-state entities or facilities to provide staffing, lease space, or contract for beds to have more resources available.
The legislation also seeks to expand the use of outpatient commitment, a tool that allows courts to require a person to comply with a treatment plan while living in the community rather than a residential facility. Under the bill, courts could order outpatient commitment for up to 180 days, double, which is the current limit of 90 days. The bill also rewrites the criteria for outpatient commitment to include a history of declining or failing to follow prescribed treatments, which could be evidenced by a prior violent conviction, violations of a civil protection order, incarceration, or involuntary inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. Those are some of the criteria that would be met for this moving forward. For people who meet the standard inpatient commitment, the bill would allow a combination of inpatient and outpatient commitment for up to 120 days, though the inpatient stay could not exceed 90.
Lawmakers also focused on the difficulty sheriffs face in locating available psychiatric beds. House Bill 1104 would require DHHS in consultation with the North Carolina. Carolina Sheriff's Association to give law enforcement access to BH scan. which is the state's Behavioral Health Bed Registry, a database listing available psychiatric beds across North Carolina. DHHS would also have to develop real time data on bed availability and allow authorized users to reserve available behavioral health beds moving forward.
Law enforcement access to BH scan would take effect a lot earlier than when this report is due. That would start as early as August the 1st of this year, with real-time availability and bed reservations taking place a year from that, August 1st, 2027, with, again, that report due starting as early as or as late as, I should say, February the 1st of next year. The bill builds on recommendations from the House Select Committee on Involuntary Commitment and Public Safety. The committee spent months hearing from law enforcement judges, doctors, mental health providers, and other state officials about these various issues. The committee's April report called for faster evaluations, better data sharing, expanded outpatient treatment, improved bed tracking, and a broader review of how North Carolina handles people cycling through jails, hospitals, and courts.
As I mentioned, this legislation has now moved through the North Carolina House. It is now headed on over to. To the Senate could be dealt with as early as this week, maybe into early next week. You can read more details over on our website this morning, CarolinaJournal.com. Looking at some other statewide news out of Raleigh this morning, the Senate Republicans have officially overridden Governor Josh Stein's veto of House Bill 87, that legislation titled Education Choice for Children Act.
The legislation, pretty simple. It allows North Carolina to participate in President Donald Trump's signature school choice program that was announced by the Trump administration. Senate leader Phil Berger, the Republican from Rockingham County, said, quote, families across the state want to have a choice in where to send their children to school. In North Carolina, we have great public schools that are supplemented by public charter, private, and home schools. Participating in President Trump's landmark school choice program gives parents another opportunity to obtain an education that best fits their children's need.
The Education Choice for Children Act ensures that North Carolina residents can participate in the federal tax credit program that was outlined in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act if they donate to certain nonprofits that provide scholarships to students. Senate Majority Leader Michael Lee, the Republican from New Hanover County, said, our state's education landscape proves that you can have a thriving public education system while at the same time having a robust education freedom. This federal tax credit adds to that. We must continue to provide families with avenues to pursue the best education for their children. This legislation had already been overridden in the North Carolina House back a couple of weeks ago, and the North Carolina Senate officially have taken that up.
That means to this point, the North Carolina Senate has successfully overridden 13 of Governor Josh Stein's 15 vetoes. This is one that has seen now 31 states across the U.S. move forward with jumping on and signing on to this new federal tax credit program that allows certain donations to groups that deal with and provide scholarships as it relates to education across their various states. With the veto override yesterday, North Carolina becomes the 32nd state to join into this. This was part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which has been in law now almost a full year.
So good to see North Carolina on board with that. We will continue to track a lot of movement in the North Carolina General Assembly over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com. And of course, have the latest for you right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Why pay when you can slash? TikTok slash and free lets you cut prices all the way to zero.
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Good morning to you. There has been a lot of discussion at the federal, state, and local levels over the last couple of years about the growing use of social media and now newly artificial intelligence to walk through some legislation that is rapidly moving through the North Carolina General Assembly. It looks to put some safeguards on that. Katie Zender CarolinaJournal.com joins us here on the news hour. Katie, we've been telling our audience all week it is set to be a very busy month of June in Raleigh, and that is appearing obvious with this piece of legislation, this social media and AI safety bill.
You're watching that progress in the North Carolina Senate. What are you tracking there? Yeah, good morning, Nick. Thanks for having me back.
So, yeah, this social media and AI safety bill, that's the name of the bill, House Bill 301, has been rapidly moving through the North Carolina Senate this week. It's making its way through the committees, and yeah, it's clipping along pretty good. We're keeping an eye on it. And it passed the House earlier this year, and we spoke with Representative Zanger, who is one of the primary sponsors of the bill, actually back in December when he told us that he expected this bill to move through the legislature this session.
So, this is no surprise. We expected this, and they've made some changes to the bill since then. But, yeah, this bill puts in some protections for people under the age of 16 that are using social media platforms. You know, obviously, Katie, we've seen a lot of these talks about this legislation, and this kind of puts lawmakers in an interesting spot.
Social media may be a little bit more stable, but AI is a rapidly evolving market. If you're somebody that follows that closely, it seems like every day there's a new major announcement from one of the major AI firms.
So it's got to be very hard for lawmakers to really grasp their heads around exactly what is going on here. Would you walk us through some of the details in this legislation, at least as it's written right now, and maybe some of these more recent changes? Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, so you brought up the AI, and that is something that, if I'm remembering correctly, has been added since the original version that we talked to Representative Zanger about back in December.
So they're definitely, you know, making some amendments and changes here to keep up with rapidly evolving technology that we're still trying to get a handle on. And there are some concerns, especially regarding the AI aspect of it. Brian Balfour, who's the vice president of research here at John Locke Foundation, said that the provisions requiring AI literacy in K-12 computer science standards make sense and are overdue.
However, we should caution against this becoming a top-heavy DPI project. There's much to like about this direction, but flexibility for local districts, teachers, and families should be a priority. The social media sector. Katie, if I can jump in before you go to the social media part of it, I mean, that I think is the big issue right here, right? You get some legislation that goes through Raleigh that directs the Department of Public Instruction.
To set some guidelines, send some guardrails. And then you, of course, look six months down the road, major changes taking place in the AI sector. You do have to be careful with rapidly evolving technology. We saw some of this in the early 90s with the advent of the internet and a lot more consumer electronics in everybody's homes. And so it's very much a balancing act as state lawmakers, of course, want to keep children, particularly those that are in the K through 12 public education system safe, but at the same time, knowing that this technology evolves so rapidly.
So that's a really great point there from Brian Balfour. You were going to jump into some of the social media side of it. That has been a longer-term conversation. We've been seeing these discussions now for what, Katie, 10, 15 years, going back to the early 2010s is when we started seeing some of this discussion at all different levels of government. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, so yeah, the concerns with rapidly evolving AI is one of the major concerns here. But yeah, protecting, you know, people, minors, people under the age of 16 with these using these social media platforms, especially since that is a large demographic of people that use some of these social media platforms.
So this bill puts some protections in place. This also coincides with a recent announcement from Meta regarding the rollout of their new content settings for teen accounts.
So back in October, they kind of did like a test for some of these teen accounts in the US, UK, Australia on some of their platforms. And so they announced, I believe it was yesterday or today, that they are continuing to expand these 13 plus content settings across all of their platforms, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger.
So that timing there is very interesting. But so the bill itself puts in a certain number of protections for people under the age of 16. And it's Really interesting because this bill has a lot of bipartisan support. And yesterday in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the committee met again today and voted it through to House rules.
So it has now been passed through to House rules. But in the discussions yesterday, a lot of Democrats had some really interesting comments that they agree with this bill, they support this bill, but some of their major concerns on the Democratic side from people like Senator Batch and Senator Grafstein and people that you might not necessarily expect, they're concerned that these protections actually don't go far enough. In fact, Senator Batch, she's the Senate Democratic leader in the Senate, she said, she actually asked Zhanger, she said, would you be open to raising the age to the age of 17? And he said he would be absolutely open to doing that.
So we might even see an age increase here as this bill makes its way. But yeah, the Democrats are actually concerned that this bill might not even go far enough. And obviously, there are some real concerns, especially as you're dealing with individuals in their early teenage years in the use of social media. I'm glad you highlighted some of the work that Meta and some of these other major platforms are doing to try and create a safe environment for children. But unfortunately, Katie, you pull up any major news website, it seems like every day there's a new horrific story somewhere across the United States as it relates to a social media platform and some of the most disgusting, despicable things that you could possibly imagine taking place as it relates to children.
As unfortunately, a lot of predators and other folks have decided that these are very effective platforms for them to use. But again, kind of an interesting place for government to be regulating many of these platforms, who, of course, operate across the globe, right? Meta is not just based here. Facebook and Instagram are not just based here in North Carolina. These are global companies worth tens of billions of dollars.
That's exactly right, Nick. And you kind of touched on some of the social predators and that kind of thing. And I actually had another story go up this morning on another bill that was also in the Senate Judiciary Committee on human trafficking. And, you know, Zenger talked about, you know, social media is the number one tool that people use, these predators use to fish for their victims of human trafficking.
So these two things are kind of a little bit related at least, but those are both bills that are making their way through the Senate right now. And yeah, social media is a huge part of that. Yeah, no question about that. In terms of the bipartisan support, and this is, again, not only unique here in North Carolina, we've seen federal legislation over the last couple of years that has had pretty strong bipartisan support. We've also seen those discussions in other states as well.
And so as we continue to follow this, Katie, I guess things are still probably relatively fluid with this legislation. A lot of amendments being made. As you noted, it started in the House, but seems like it was pretty heavily modified in the Senate.
So I guess it's going to... have to go back to the House. If they don't agree with all the changes, they'll make their changes. It'll go back to the Senate. I guess over the next couple of weeks, we'll finally get a conclusion as to what this bill actually looks like and what it will and won't do.
Right. Yes.
So it's been passed on and voted through to Senate the Rules Committee. That happened today. Senate Judiciary voted it through to Rules. And yes, we'll be keeping our eye on it and tracking it and keeping everyone up to date on what's going on with this bill. You can read more on this piece of legislation, plus a lot of our other discussions and conversations as it relates to the General Assembly short session here in the month of June.
All those details over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com. We appreciate the update this morning. Katie Zender joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour. Bye, Commander. It's 5.36.
Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM. WBT, I'm Nick Craig. Good Thursday morning to you. Continuing our coverage of what has been a very busy week in Raleigh as lawmakers are back in the state capitol dealing with the legislative short session ahead of the July the 4th holiday when lawmakers are scheduled to wrap up the 2026 short session. A lot of legislation moving back and forth between the North Carolina House and Senate to walk us through House Bill 1173.
It's my pleasure to welcome Andrew Pomerance, CarolinaJournal.com to the Carolina Journal News Hour this morning. Andrew, great to have you as always. A busy couple of days at the legislature. Gang violence is a major problem and discussion in many municipalities across the state of North Carolina. Typically, that is a local issue dealt by local judiciaries and local law enforcement.
However, it looks like the North Carolina General Assembly is trying to step in on this. What are you tracking on that front? Yeah. Hey, Nick, thank you so much for having me on this morning. It is a busy week, like you've mentioned, down here in Raleigh at the General Assembly.
I'm seeing a number of bills kind of work their way through committees this week. And this is a bill that was filed back on April 30th, so just a couple weeks ago now, entitled Jalea's Law, sponsored by Representatives John Bell and Sarah Stevens. Actually happened in John Bell's district. And so something that he talked about was, you know, the family actually came to him and said this is something that they would like to see move forward, but moved through House Judiciary II Committee late Wednesday after late Tuesday, apologize, afternoon. And something that we'll see was earlier calendar for House rules on Wednesday morning, but was then removed from the calendar.
So something that I think we'll see come up early next week. You talked about how the family wanted and reached out to their representative to try and get moving on some legislation. And Andrew, this files a horrific story from late 2025 as a middle schooler in Goldsboro was gunned down and killed. Can you walk us through some of those details? Yeah, so on her way home walking with her little sister, she was gunned down by three fellows.
Juveniles, those names have not been released because they are minors, but both all three boys were teenage boys, were charged with first-degree murder and felony conspiracies. And so, something the family said, you know, she was only 13 years old. Our lives have been changed forever. And, you know, their goal really with this piece of legislation is to save other lives with prevention and intervention. And so, a terrible story.
You know, the family talked about how the 13-year-old died in her little sister's arms, you know, on a normal walk home from school. And a lot of the details around this case are still, you know. Not being discussed because of their juvenile status of the boys who committed the crimes. But Representative Bell said this law is the result of a tragic incident that happened in our community where a beloved 13-year-old girl was murdered only four days before Christmas. Nick, I can only imagine the family.
And it has shocked their community. It rocked our community, and the whole community in their area grieved. And so a very tragic situation, but the family was in attendance during the committee hearing on Tuesday asking for this legislation, obviously visibly upset and, you know. A rip. Rightfully so, still.
And so they are looking to do something they said in a big way. Yeah, and obviously the legislation does not resolve what had happened in the past, but hopefully helping other families, other parents, other relatives and guardians across the state of North Carolina moving forward. Andrew, you highlighted something there that I want to make sure is clear to our audience. We cover and have talked about a lot of high-profile violent situations here in North Carolina over the last couple of years, specifically when you are dealing with juveniles throughout the criminal justice and the law enforcement system. Those details can take forever if they ever are.
released again because of the age of those individuals so that may be why this has not become a major topic and wasn't a major story across north carolina when it happened in late 2025 Yeah, and this story really started to gain momentum again just two weeks ago now. The family and representatives held a press conference actually out in Goldsboro to introduce this bill and ask for it themselves. And a number of representatives were in attendance as well as local officials asking for these stricter gang-related charges and making it easier to prosecute individuals with gang-related crimes. Yeah, there are a lot of pertinent details as it relates to House Bill 1173. Looking at your article over at CarolinaJournal.com, what are exactly some of those details as it will relate to gang violence?
Yeah, so rather than focusing on a single penalty, the bill would actually look at several different aspects of criminal law, including recruitment, gang recruitment, firearm possession, sentencing enhancements, and also just how do we define criminal gang activity in the state of North Carolina? And that's something that was brought up multiple times during the committee hearing. 2008, North Carolina Criminal Gang Suppression Act required a high bar of evidence to prove gang activity, leadership, or membership, and just put really unrealistic expectations on prosecutors, a really high bar to prove gang crimes and that additional penalties that would come along with those. And so, this bill aims to kind of break a lot of that down. It also increases punishment for recruiting others into gang activity, especially with stiffer penalties around those who are recruited under the age of 18.
Something that the 2008 Criminal Gangs Oppression Act did was put a cap on the age at 15. And, you know, trying to eliminate how those recruiting of people under the age of 18, you know, lowering that threshold to make those penalties harsher. But what we've seen and we see tragically in this case is people even younger than 15 being recruited to join gang violence and gang crimes. And a lot of that is done through social media and other digital communications. And so this bill actually takes the first stand at trying to deter some of that online gang violence through stricter penalties and through increased sentencing.
And so, you know, a number of things this bill aims to do, but really tries to get to the heart of, you know, why did this situation happen and how do we make it easier going forward to prosecute individuals? in connection with gang crimes. Yeah, Andrew, it's a miserable situation, but unfortunately, many of these organized crime gangs, not only here in North Carolina, but across the nation, they do prey on young individuals in their early teens that are going through the middle or high school system in states like North Carolina, using some of those individuals. Of course, again, at very young ages, maybe not fully able to decipher the true difference between right and wrong and prey on those impressionable minds.
So a kind of a miserable situation there.
However, unlike some of some other legislation that we've been keeping an eye in Raleigh, there is some question and some criticism being drawn by the other side. Looks like Representative Deb Butler, the Democrat out of New Hanover County, thinks maybe that there's some problems here. Yeah, absolutely. And the ACLU also spoke against this piece of legislation. And Representative Butler said, what we don't want is to create a dragnet that is so broad that it targets people who are merely guilty by association, right?
Those who maybe are. Are tied up in this gang life for reasons that are unbecoming of themselves or by association. And she went on to say, to her credit, criminals need to be in jail. But we don't want to give up our civil liberties or our constitutional rights and put people in jail who are not actually guilty of those crimes yet. And that was the similar sentiment expressed by the ACLU is this fear of infringing on individual rights just because of some gang affiliation.
Quite shockingly to myself, you know. ACLU actually said if we're going to increase the punishment for people who are in gangs, we need to be sure wearing a certain color or having a picture online flashing gang signs does not necessarily mean that they are, in fact. A member of a gang. Quite starkly there. And so, to that comment, Representative Stevens said, I believe the intention of this bill is quite clear that we must involve some kind of criminal activity, even if we're.
On top of not just guilty by association here.
So interesting debate back and forth, a very emotional committee meeting. But hopefully we will see this legislation, I would assume, move quite quickly through the rules committee and into the House floor next week. Yeah, bizarre comment there from the ACLU. Unfortunately, that's not the first time we've heard something like that out of this organization. If passed, and of course, we'll be keeping an eye on that.
We know Andrew will as well. That would go into effect December the 1st of this year. We'll keep you up to date with the details over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com. We appreciate the update this morning. Andrew Pomerance joins us on the Carolina Journal News Hour.
Good morning again. It's 5:51. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk 107.9 FM, WBT. As we've been covering all morning, a busy couple of days in the North Carolina General Assembly, we head back there now as a bill to fight human trafficking across the state. Senate Bill 1007 currently sits in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The bill's lead sponsors include state senators Ted Alexander, the Republican from Cleveland, with other primary sponsors listed as Senators Lisa Barnes, the Republican from Nash, and Michael Lazarum, the Republican from Onslow. North Carolina, and this is not a good number at all, ranks number ninth in the nation for human trafficking according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. This piece of legislation is a comprehensive bill that focuses on identifying victims, supporting survivors, coordinating, and victims. Reporting and law enforcement response, according to a press release. Alexander told the Carolina Journal: It's part of our ongoing effort to combat the whole issue of human trafficking right now in North Carolina.
Alexander said that the purpose of this legislation is to empower the North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission with information and data that it needs, that this will enable nationwide searches for best practices to fight human trafficking and domestic abuse funded by this commission. It would also implement an excise tax on pornographic material with revenue from the tax being split between the Commission on Women and the Commission on Human Trafficking. According to Alexander, that is how that money will be broken out and how it will be used. The legislation creates a statewide system for reporting and responding to human trafficking cases aimed at enhancing how trafficking-related information is gathered, shared, and evaluated throughout the state of North Carolina. The press release says that by improving coordination among law enforcement agencies, service organizations, and state agents, State leaders, the measure seeks to strengthen victim identification, support more effective investigations, provide greater insight into trafficking patterns, and overall enhance statewide response strategies.
Elizabeth Champion, the president of the Harriet Institute, said in the press release: We are incredibly grateful for Senator Alexander's leadership and the commitment to bringing people together around meaningful solutions. This legislation represents an important step forward in creating stronger systems to identify victims, support survivors, and improve coordination between agencies and communities. The Cleveland County Sheriff's Office. has been coordinating with stakeholders to fight trafficking and exploitation statewide. Alan Norman, the Cleveland County Sheriff, told the Carolina Journal in a statement, we all recognize that human trafficking is a complex crime.
That requires coordinated efforts across agencies and sectors. With the provisions outlined in Senate Bill 1007, law enforcement will be better equipped to collaborate with social providers, prosecutors, and advocacy groups to ensure that victims receive the support that they need and that traffickers are held accountable. Earlier this week, on June the 2nd, the bill was discussed but not voted on in the Senate Judiciary meeting. During the committee meeting, Senate Democrat leader Sidney Batch, the Democrat out of Wake County, expressed concerns about the implementation, particularly the excise tax, and concerns that, and concerns that she has that the bill taxes the harm after the fact rather than preventing human trafficking. Batch said that she supports the vast majority of the legislation, but again, voiced some of her concerns with how certain pieces and portions of it are set to take place.
We have been mentioning now for the last couple of days. This is what we were talking about when we mentioned a busy couple of weeks in Raleigh. We are seeing legislation moving at an incredibly fast and incredibly rapid pace throughout state government. We'll be keeping an eye on this legislation and so many others. All those details over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com.
And of course, the latest each and every weekday morning right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour. It is also set to be a busy morning in the North Carolina House Oversight Committee as Mecklenburg County and state child welfare officials are set to testify coming up at 9 o'clock this morning following the death of six-year-old Dominique Moody. Moody was allegedly starved and neglected despite previous reports to child welfare services. The report names Mecklenburg County Manager Mike Bryant, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Chief Estella Patterson, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Gary McFadden, interim DSS Director Latin. Tisha Loadholt and NCDHHS Division Director Lisa Cowley, among those set to testify.
All of those individuals received 15 questions from the oversight committee. The responses to those questions were due earlier this week. And according to the North Carolina House calendar, at least as it stands right now, that committee is set to meet at 9 o'clock to discuss what exactly went on as it relates to Dominique Moody, the six-year-old girl who was found weighing just 27 pounds when she was found dead as it related to neglect. The committee being very blunt in their meeting notice and announcement saying, simply put, Mecklenburg County failed Dominique Moody. Other issues also that will likely be discussed is DHHS found that the contacts were not made frequently enough.
Child Protective Services history was not reviewed. Seems like a major failure from multiple agencies as it relates to this legislation. That is coming up at 9 o'clock this morning. We'll have extensive coverage of this over on our website, CarolinaJournal.com, and I'll be bringing you all of the relevant clips and information from this committee hearing coming up tomorrow morning right here on the Carolina Journal News Hour. That's going to do it for a Thursday edition.
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