Marshall Terry
Host, Morning EditionMarshall came to WFAE after graduating from Appalachian State University, where he worked at the campus radio station and earned a degree in communication. Outside of radio, he loves listening to music and going to see bands - preferably in small, dingy clubs.
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Exit polls from the past weekend's South Carolina primary showed that former President Donald Trump appealed more to the most conservative voters, white men, evangelicals and voters without college degrees — core voters within today’s Republican Party. But only a few decades ago they were a party minority. Narrative podcast "Landslide" examines this shift in the GOP. The latest episode is out today, and host Ben Bradford joined us on Morning Edition to talk more about it.
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It’s time for a fact-check of North Carolina politics. With less than a week before North Carolina’s presidential primary, we’re looking at a recent claim by Democratic District 2 Rep. Deborah Ross, who said that our state has the longest voting period in the country and the most ways of voting.
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Flying out of Charlotte is getting a little more expensive for many. The largest carrier at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, American Airlines, this week announced it’s raising the cost of checking a bag. This story and other local business news on this week's BizWorthy, with the Ledger's Cristina Bolling.
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A charged political climate. A Republican presidential primary poised to be a blowout. A general election that could have seismic repercussions on the country’s direction. That’s all true in the current 2024 presidential race, but a new podcast proposes it was also true back in 1976, in an election that shaped the conditions for today’s political environment. The podcast is "Landslide." Its creator and host is former WFAE reporter Ben Bradford, and WFAE is a producing partner on it.
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A well-known family in North Carolina textiles is taking legal action to try and prevent Charlotte’s Atrium Health from receiving millions of dollars as part of an inheritance. This news and more on this week's BizWorthy.
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Atrium Health, one of Charlotte's two major hospital systems, is technically considered a unit of local government — a designation not everyone agrees with. Michelle Crouch wrote about this for the Charlotte Ledger Business Newsletter and NC Health News, and joined us on Morning Edition to talk about it.
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One of the more contentious changes allowed under the Unified Development Ordinance is for duplexes and triplexes to be built in neighborhoods previously only zoned for single-family homes. And some parts of Charlotte are now seeing that happen. This and more on this week's BizWorthy.
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Wilkes County is facing scrutiny after county leaders approved a Christian heritage proclamation. Reporter Jacob Biba wrote about it for The Assembly, and he joined us on Morning Edition to talk about it.
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The radio show and podcast "Hidden Brain" this February is exploring the psychology of how people form political beliefs as well as strategies to engage more constructively with those who think differently. Host Shankar Vedantam joined us on Morning Edition to talk about this new series, U.S. 2.0.
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Charlotte Center City Partners released its annual report on the state of Charlotte's center city on Wednesday. We discussed the report's uptown and South End findings on this week's BizWorthy.