NC Capitol Wrap

Laura Leslie and Travis Fain bring sharp minds, broad knowledge, years of experience and just the right amount of attitude to their coverage of North Carolina politics and government. Okay, okay - yes, I am their editor, but this is a perfectly objective endorsement. Give em a listen.

The show is very low on volume. There are episodes that even if I turn up the volume to the max I still have a hard time hearing the hosts clearly. I listen to number of NC political podcasts and I often have to turn up the volume when it comes to this podcast, and turn it back down for the others!

I’ve been listening for several weeks now, and I can tell they are trying to be even-handed, but they do not represent the motives/intent behind conservative or Republican stances/actions well. Like yesterday’s episode, where they quickly summarized ESG as simply being good environmental and social governance, insinuating that Republicans are against good environmental and social governance. That is not what they’re against. They’re against giving up the DEFINITION of those things to a small cadre of people who then try to shape society from the top down. Same with how they represent the Right on LGBT issues. There is a fundamental lack of understanding or appreciation that shows itself in a lot of these summaries.

NC wouldn't be on quite as regressive of a slope as it is if it didn't have a whole host of access-journalists lobbing softball questions at racists, anti-Semites, misogynists, homo- and trans-phobes, etc.