Under the Dome: Upcoming Senate action on attorney general, K-12 DEI & immigration bills
Start your week in North Carolina politics with our latest Under the Dome podcast, for the week of March 10, 2025. Dawn Vaughan here, your podcast host and The News & Observer’s Capitol bureau chief. Today’s Under the Dome newsletter is a preview of our new podcast that posted this morning.
I’m joined by my politics team colleagues Avi Bajpai and Kyle Ingram to talk about the latest news from the General Assembly and what to expect this week.
We talk about upcoming Senate action on legislation about the attorney general and President Donald Trump’s executive orders; diversity, equity and inclusion in K-12 schools; along with immigration bills moving in both chambers.
Plus, what to expect from Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s upcoming State of the State Address, and what happened after Trump fired the head of the Office of Special Counsel, North Carolina native Hampton Dellinger.
Headliner of the Week
Stay tuned to the end for our picks for Headliner of the Week. We talk about Senate leader Phil Berger’s role in a sports story, spending by Mecklenburg County Democrats and the cool new word I learned from an Appropriations Committee meeting.
Listen to our latest episode and previous episodes, which are embedded at the end of our stories and on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Audible, iHeart, Pandora, Amazon Music and Stitcher.
If you are a lawmaker or work in state government, politics or policy and are interested in being a podcast guest or have topic recommendations, email me at dvaughan@newsobserver.com.
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