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In 2018, Hurricane Florence devastated coastal North Carolina, leaving Yvonne Pittaway's home in Carteret County torn apart, and her missing it. After Hurricane Helene tore through North Carolina, residents faced more than just physical devastation, too—they grappled with the emotional aftermath. In this episode of Storm Stories, Brandon Romstadt of WNC Health Network shares how public health communicators crafted trauma-informed messaging to support storm survivors, while environmental epidemiologist Jen Runkle starts to talk about the intersection of disaster, sadness and fear that emerged after Hurricane Florence.Trauma-Informed Communication: 10 Essential Tips for NonprofitsEducate Your Team: Ensure all staff understand trauma and its effects.Empathic Language: Use language that validates feelings and experiences.Clarity is Key: Provide clear, consistent, and accessible information.Engage Community Voices: Involve survivors in shaping messaging.Prioritize Safety: Create messaging that avoids triggering traumatic memories.Focus on Strengths: Emphasize resilience and available support.Tailor Communication: Adapt messages for diverse audiences and needs.Use Multiple Channels: Distribute information via trusted platforms.Foster Trust: Maintain transparency about recovery efforts.Review and Adapt: Regularly assess and update communication strategies.Support the show

Send us a textIn this episode of Shoresides, we explore the challenges faced by low-income and elderly homeowners in Carteret County, North Carolina—a place of vibrant coastal life but growing climate vulnerability. Host Nicholas Magrino speaks with Catissa Head, Executive Director of Coastal Community Action, whose organization supports those struggling to maintain safe and livable homes amid increasing financial strain and extreme weather.Head describes the housing crisis affecting her clients, from fixed-income seniors barely managing property upkeep to families forced into unsafe living conditions due to financial and bureaucratic barriers. Coastal Community Action offers essential services to sustain its clients' homes and lives through weatherization, urgent repairs, and community advocacy.Head's work highlights the critical need for safe spaces and affordable housing in rural coastal North Carolina, where community action agencies play a vital role but face significant obstacles. Her story sheds light on a population often overlooked but deeply affected by our changing world.Listen to learn about Coastal Community Action's efforts and the community resilience it fosters in the face of these pressing challenges.4oSupport the showwww.shoresides.org

Booth chats with Virginia Cuthrell, executive director of the Carteret Health Care Foundation. A native of Carteret County, Virginia shares how she ended up back in her hometown, and discusses the Foundation's role in supporting initiatives like cancer patient assistance and community outreach. Take notes as Virginia shares how to balance a fulfilling career and family life!Read about the Carteret Health Care Foundation on their website.Find our events and more resources on the Carolina Women's Collective websiteThe Carolina Women's Collective Instagram: @carolinawomenscollectiveThis show is proudly produced by Rooster High Productions.

I'm going down a bit of a nostalgia road with this episode to tell you about Bogue Banks,  place I spent many summer vacations as a kid.The twenty one mile island off of Carteret County is home to Emerald Isle, Indian Beach, Pine Knoll Shores, Salter Path, Atlantic Beach, and Fort Macon. As you can see, there is never a shortage of things to do in this corner of our great state. LINKS: Facebook YouTube Contact thenceverythingpodcast@gmail.com SOURCES: https://pineknollhistory.blogspot.com/2017/07/bogue-banks-state-park-1923_15.html?m=1 https://pineknollhistory.blogspot.com/2014/03/why-did-alice-come-to-bogue-banks.html?m=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogue_Banks https://coastalreview.org/2021/12/our-coasts-history-the-early-voices-of-bogue-banks/ https://www.carteretcountync.gov/297/History-of-Bogue-Banks#:~:text=The%20history%20of%20Bogue%20Banks,North%20Carolina%20statesman%20Nathaniel%20Macon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Isle,_North_Carolina#:~:text=From%20about%201%20AD%20to,tourist%20attraction%20and%20ocean%20resort. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nceverything/support

Episode 104 is on the scene with the 2024 Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division Champion from South Boston Speedway Jason Myers. Myers discusses going back to back in what was an extremely competitive Limited Sportsman Division in 2024 and his preparations to go for a Martinsville Speedway grandfather clock in two weeks. This is the second part of our champions spotlight from South Boston Speedway.Danny Bohn recently picked up his first career SMART Modified Tour win at Carteret County on Labor Day Weekend. Bohn joins the show coming off a third place finish at Dominion over the weekend. Bohn discusses his big season on the SMART Tour, his past NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and Xfinity Series opportunities and how he feels the current SMART Modified Tour stacks up with the former NASCAR Southern Modified Tour a decade ago and much more!We had a conversation with Carson Kvapil who returned to zMAX CARS Tour victory lane on Saturday at South Boston. We discuss his goals for the rest of the season which includes Martinsville and finishing up this season on Tour strong as well as his Xfinity Series opportunities the rest of the season.We break down the AutosByNelson.com 280 CARS Tour race from South Boston. Ryan Millington dominated but Kvapil was the one who reminded everyone why he was on top the last two seasons. We also discuss another solid run by rookie Treyton Lapcevich, the game plan Brenden Queen is following towards a championship and how Connor Hall turned a tough night into a solid seventh place run. We also discuss Spencer Davis going back to back on the Pro Late Model side and more!We also break down the SMART Modified Tour race from Dominion. Luke Baldwin loves racing in Virginia as he has two wins in the commonwealth with his dominating win on Saturday. We discuss the run by Jimmy Showtime Blewett and set up for the upcoming playoff races at South Boston and North Wilkesboro now that the upcoming race at Lonesome Pine was canceled due to rain. Other topics of discussion include.Connor Zilisch history making Xfinity Series win and ARCA Domination. Chris Buescher taking advantage of a rare SVG mistake, big names outside the playoff bubble, damaged vehicle policies and more from Watkins Glen. We also set the scene for the last race in the first round of the playoffs from Bristol,  championship battles to be decided at Franklin County Speedway as well as the STAR Super Stock Tour's next race at the same facility and some fun facts about the Valley Star 300 at Martinsville Speedway as we are inching ever so closer to the biggest Late Model event of the year on September 28th!This and so much more on DLN!!

Episode 102 is on the scene with the two most recent winners on zMAX CARS Tour Late Model Stock Tour.Landen Lewis captured his first win at Wake County Speedway on August 24th. The Kevin Harvick Incorporated driver describes this win as being the biggest of his career, shares the advice his owner Kevin Harvick recently gave him after a tough weekend at the track, how he has developed as a driver and more.Ryan Millington hadn't won a tour race since 2020. He's been up front all season long but circumstances prevented him from winning. He finally broke through and captured a win at Florence last weekend and he discusses the win, returning to the F45 tires, operating with such a limited crew, working with R&S race cars, overcoming disqualifications, accidents and preparing for a potential title run while feeling more optimistic than ever as he attempts to win a Martinsville Grandfather Clock later this month.Scott Phillips wasn't even going to run the season finale at South Boston in the Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division after running out of funds due to some emergencies outside the track. With the help of many friends, family and fellow racers, he was able to run this past weekend and it paid off for his first win of the season. Phillips tells us this story as well as overcoming substance abuse issues, personal demons and how racing saved him. It is a story of perseverance and one that you do not want go go without hearing as it may help someone who needs it.We breakdown the SMART Modified Tour doubleheader from New River and Carteret County over the weekend. Ryan Newman won the first race and Danny Bohn finally broke through in his own right to claim his first SMARTY. We discuss the CARS Tour and STAR Super Stock races from Florence with analysis and post race interviews. Ricky Locklair Jr picked up his first STAR Tour win, Alby Ovitt retains his points lead, Marlin Yoder has troubles and Jeff Melton enjoys success up front and more. We also discuss Brenden Queen and Matt Cox battling for second, strategy that took place, and whether the comers and goers made it for an exciting race with the return of the aforementioned F45's among other subjects.The NASCAR Cup Series wrapped up their regular season at Darlington. We discuss Chase Briscoe's win, Tyler Reddick overcoming sickness and set up the playoff field by discussing who will be the first four out and make our final four picks. We discuss South Boston's Championship night, the Whelen Modified Tour, preview Atlanta and much more on another packed DLN!

In this episode of Somewhere & Elsewhere, we hear about an exciting youth media project that brings together storytelling and media arts skills. Hosted by Akshay Gokul, this episode dives into the Coastal Healing Project, an initiative in Carteret County empowering local youth through art, storytelling, and media. Our guest, Sarah Sloan, co-director/founder of the project, shares how this program is transforming lives by giving young people the tools to shape their narratives. Hear from poet Jaelah Vann, one of the talented youth participants, whose work captures the essence of life in Beaufort. Join us as we celebrate the resilience and creativity of our coastal communities.

REPLAY on July 5, 2024 ORIGINAL AIR DATE Segment 3, July 29th, 2023 The Carolina Outdoors is now in session!  On this segment, host Bill Bartee, takes us to the county seat of Carteret County, NC.  Beaufort, NC, is spelled the same as a coastal town in SC with the difference being the pronunciation.  Beaufort, NC, is the fourth oldest city in the state (behind Bath, New Bern, & Edenton) founded in 1713 & home to the North Carolina Maritime Museum Beaufort (NCMMB). Christine Brin, Associate Education Curator for the NCMMB, joins the program to talk about the exhibits, events, & education opportunities that the Museum offers.  During the summer conventional and cane pole fishing classes are available to kids, enabling them to learn the a sport that they otherwise may not be introduced. Brin lets us know about the whaling exhibit & the traditions of North Carolina & whaling.  Many times the locals will name the whale, including Echo, who is on display at the Museum. Other popular exhibits involve Pirates.  In fact, the famed pirate Black Beard, grounded his ship the Queen Anne's Revenge in the nearby Beaufort Inlet. The opportunities during the summer are often on the increase due to the influx of tourists during the summer.  However, the Museum stays popular year round due to the programming and seasonal offerings. August brings a lecture series on female pirates, Ann Bonny & Mary Read, as well as another on the Hurricane of 1879. Brin mentions the event commemorating the Pirate Invasion of 1747, when the town was caught up in a battle against Spanish pirates. Christine Brin also describes one of her favorite events.  The Murder Mystery:  "Only Murders at the Museum" is taking place on September 1st, 2023.  Get your tickets while supplies last. Wardrobe for the host was provided by Charlotte outdoor store, Jesse Brown's, the Charlotte store Patagonia & the Charlotte dealer for Free Fly.  

Listeners may not know Frank Eaton's name, but it's likely they're very familiar with his political ads.  They include eye-popping, attention-getting productions for Rep. Charles Graham, Rep. Deb Butler, Sen. Graig Meyer, Sen. Rachel Hunt, and Lt. Governor Walter Dalton.  The former UNC School of the Arts student also has clients in other states. Frank talks about his Emmy-award winning work and his predictions on what kind of ads we'll see during this election cycle in North Carolina.   Skye and Brian also update listeners on the latest budget news, the mask/campaign finance bill gets final votes, a lawsuit in Carteret County over the school calendar law, Race of the Week, #TOTW, baseball fashion, and more.    The Do Politics Better podcast is sponsored by New Frame, the NC Travel Industry Association, the NC Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association, the NC Pork Council, and the NC Healthcare Association.  

In 2022, more than 6 million people visited farmers markets across North Carolina. Today, we're talking with a team of people who are the driving force behind the North Carolina Farmers Market Network: Maggie Funkhouser, Catherine Elkins, and Nora Rodli. The goal of the North Carolina Farmers Market is to create and support a thriving network of marketplaces for the state's local food and farm products. The nonprofit network, which was recently awarded a USDA Farmers Market Promotion Capacity-building grant, will provide education, programming, and partnership development assistance to farmers market managers, including resources to support historically underserved populations. Interview Summary   I would like to take a moment to actually get to know you all a little bit better. Tell us a little bit about how you got involved in farmers markets. Catherine, let's start with you.   Catherine - Sure. I've been doing this for the longest, I suppose. I went with my mom many times to Amish markets in Pennsylvania where I grew up. She was not a very good gardener. But we could buy everything that she liked at the market. I also worked a bit at the Carrboro Farmers Market, and I then got an opportunity to work with the Morehead City Saturday Market, a one-year lifespan. And the Old Beaufort Farmers Market we started up the next year, that's now in its 10th year. That makes me proud. I liked that market a lot. Managed it for two years, and I'm still one of those devotees that go on vacation and have to look up the closest farmers market just to check out new stuff.   Maggie - Like most managers, I did not go to school to be a farmers market manager. It kind of found me, I guess you could say. I went to graduate school directly after undergrad for classical languages. Then when I moved back to the Triangle, I just sort of started getting involved more and more with local food. I worked in restaurants, I worked in coffee shops, and one time I worked in an artisan bakery; I managed a culinary garden, and I just kind of kept getting drawn into different parts of the community in our local food system in the Triangle. In 2019, I applied for and was offered a job at the Carrboro Farmers Market as the assistant manager. I worked there for about a year. Then in 2020, I took over as the manager, and I've been here ever since.   Nora - So, I actually come to farmers markets as a farmer. For the past 25 years, I've farmed in various places around the country, mostly New Mexico and Hawaii and now North Carolina. That has given me the ability to see and experience farmers markets in a lot of different manners, whether it be a small market or a large market, and urban versus rural settings. I feel like I am uniquely on board as a cheering squad for farmers markets.   Thank you. We all need a cheerleader on our side, so it's good to hear that. I really would love to ask each of you more questions about your past because there are some interesting connections that I hear. Catherine, the Marine Lab is in Beaufort, and I'm intrigued to know more about how those relationships develop. Maggie, I would love to talk more about your training as someone in the classics has influenced the way you think about this. I mean, this idea of food and agriculture is deeply within that literature, and so that's really fascinating. And, Nora, I just can't wait to learn more about Hawaii. But I can't do that right now. We have other things to focus on. However, if those answers come up in your other responses, please feel free. I'm intrigued to talk to you all a little bit more about the North Carolina Farmers Market Network. What is it and who does it serve?   Maggie - I'll kind of kick us off talking about the network a little bit, and maybe my colleagues can chime in. So, we incorporated this year as a 501 nonprofit under the name North Carolina Farmers Market Network. NCFMN, for short. That's our kind of alphabet-soup title that I might say really, really fast. But there had kind of been plans and thoughts to form a statewide network in North Carolina for a long time. We gained a lot of momentum in 2020 because in 2020 we started, with the help of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, the State Extension and RAFI, when the pandemic hit, we started having these weekly Zoom calls that were specifically for farmers market managers. The reason we started them in March 2020 was because we were all really, really unsure about what was happening and what was going to happen to the farmers market spaces. Many of our markets across the state were shut down. Many of them had a lot of additional regulations and policies and emergency protocols that were really hard to implement, especially if there were no permanent staff or volunteer staff or part-time staff. In my position, I'm lucky enough to be full-time, but many market managers are not. So, we started out as a rag-tag group of market managers that were just trying to stay open and operating in a really difficult time. We had weekly calls, and we went over different policies we had, different marketing techniques we were using to communicate to the public about our pandemic response. I really clung to it as a source of support during that time. Then over the next couple of years, we started meeting biweekly, then we started meeting monthly. We kind of realized that we had a lot to talk about and a lot to share. Our Zoom name was COVID-19 Calls for Farmers Markets. But what started out as COVID-19 Calls for Farmers Markets turned into resource sharing, professional development, learning things like grant writing, bookkeeping, managing conflicts. And last year we decided to make it official. So, we applied for our FMPP grant, our Farmers Market Promotion Program grant, through the USDA, and we were awarded it. And then we were on the path to nonprofit incorporation.   Maggie, that is really fascinating, and it's interesting to hear how a crisis of COVID-19 drew a lot of you together. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like it was beneficial in terms of the work you were doing. And it may have also had some personal benefits - just being connected to other people who were in the same field. And you all were able to talk about how you were managing things. Did that take place? Was there more than just sort of, "Here's how to manage your books," or "Here's how to manage conflict"?   Maggie - For sure. The camaraderie was just incredible. Farmers market managers, it's kind of a funny position, and maybe Nora can speak to this a little bit as a farmer who sells at a farmers market, and maybe a different perspective about what a market manager does or the role they occupy. But we do a lot of different things. On any given day we can be planning special events, applying for grants, communicating with vendors, communicating with our boards. And so, to have connections, especially for me being in the Triangle where we have a lot of farmers markets, I had never really met their managers or interacted with them. And now we're total pals. It really was an opportunity for me to share experiences with people who have very similar jobs, and those jobs are often singular in their workplace.   Nora, since she called you out, I'm interested, from a farmer's perspective, I would love to hear your thoughts, and, of course, Catherine, please feel free to join in.   Nora - Yes, I'd love to share. I feel like before meeting this network, and I've only been with them since April, I have to admit that as a farmer, I showed up at the farmers market and thought that's when the market began and didn't really think much beyond who was behind making it happen until I got there. And I've learned and been humbled by how much of an oversight that is. I definitely am guilty of not appreciating all of the work that goes into making sure that farmers markets happen. And I've spent the last six months learning about all the details of things that market managers deal with that farmers have no idea. And it's similar to farmers, maybe, in that way where we wear many hats. And so, I feel like I've learned, one, to appreciate them, but, two, there's not a lot of collective appreciation by anybody that goes on for farmers markets managers. And so, I think that by them grouping together every month because it can be such a siloed experience, it just seems like this really beautiful connection where, when you do your job well as a market manager, there's nothing, like no one says a thing. No complaints mean success. And so, here's a group that can give you compliments, you can empathize with one another, and know that you have each other's back. It's just a beautiful network.   Catherine - I think also what we noticed was that many times the overlap and potentially collaborative nature amongst managers is really great. These are not competitive people. They have secrets to share about what their special events might be, and not everybody has to hold Tomato Day on the same day. Or they may know people at City Hall that are the right people for this kind of permit or may as well share these things. They're all on our same perspective. And plus, that, we found that there were many other states that had networks or associations. So, we could follow them, especially during a period of crisis and near panic as COVID was. Everybody's just glued to their screens looking for information. And the states that had robust networks or associations already in place seemed to be able to help their markets succeed really well.   Thank you all for sharing this. It's really fascinating to learn about the development of this farmers market network and to know that there are other farmers market networks in other states, and it's great to hear of the learnings that you all gained from each other within the state and across states. So, this is really helpful. I've got to ask this question. I mean, it sounds like what drew you all together was the pandemic and thinking about how to navigate policies. Now that, I pray, we're through the hard part of COVID, and I say that cautiously, what are things that are on your agenda now? What do you hope to see be different?   Maggie - Catherine kind of spoke to this. Even though farmers markets are separate spaces, our market is within 20 miles of four other farmers markets. But the goal is not to compete with them. The goal is to lift up farmers markets as accessible community spaces and viable spaces for our farmers to make direct sales. So, for us, we really want to strengthen that local food ethic across the state of North Carolina. Because selling at farmers markets is an extremely viable way that small-scale farmers can succeed in North Carolina. And so, if you have a market manager that is leaving after six months because they're overwhelmed or they haven't received a lot of institutionalized knowledge or training or what have you, then that's where we can step in and say, "We have training, we can give you information, we can share resources, we can provide a network to you." Our big, impactful goal that we're working for is having a statewide nutrition incentive program, and I think Virginia calls theirs Fresh Match. Many statewide organizations have Double Bucks, Fresh Bucks, Market Match, whatever you want to call it, where they provide a dollar-for-dollar match for nutrition incentive programs like SNAP EBT or the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. And as of right now, farmers markets in North Carolina, most of them are fending for themselves. There are a few regional systems like in the western part of the state, the Triangle area farmers markets, Mecklenburg County farmers markets, that are working together. But we really want to have a statewide network where farmers markets across North Carolina can offer nutrition incentives to shopping at farmers markets.   Thank you for that. I'm really happy to hear how you all are working towards addressing policy questions and thinking about who the farmers markets can better serve by using programs like Double Up Bucks or the nutrition incentive programs, and seeing that work across the state. Because there are some significant differences in economic realities across the state. So, that's wonderful to hear you all are doing that work. I'd just like to take a step back, and I'm going to go back to you, Maggie. Can you talk to us about the role of farmers markets in communities? What role do they play?   Maggie - We talk about this a lot in the farmers market space. Because from the outside, farmers markets are spaces of commerce. They're a space where farmers can get together. Maybe you don't realize there's a level of organization behind it. But, in reality, anyone who is a regular at farmers markets knows that they are not just a space of commerce, that they are a community space. They are a third space, and an opportunity to socialize, meet your local farmers. And at our market, we were founded in the late '70's, we have customers who have been coming to our market for decades. They've known some of our farms for years, they've seen them get married and have kids, they've seen their loved ones pass away, they've seen them go through hardships, and seen them go through multiple recessions at this point. It's a really unique space, especially in this kind of era where there is an increasingly globalized economy where you can order one-day shipping for everything you need. To be able to meet the person that's growing your food or baking your bread is really unique. Many farmers markets promote the sense of community, and engagement between consumer and producer. A lot of us offer different types of community programming to kind of bolster that. So, things like kids' activities, encouraging healthy nutrition and things like senior days, educational events. Catherine named Tomato Day, which happens to be a very big day for us. And we've kind of touched on Double Bucks and food access, and that's another real priority for a farmers market. And, also, I didn't mention this when we were talking about the pandemic, but we were looped under grocery stores as essential for the state of North Carolina. And so, that kind of maybe speaks to how we feel, and I hope others in our community feel about farmers markets as well.   Wow, that's really fascinating. I didn't appreciate that farmers markets were treated like grocery stores as essential workers. That's really interesting. I'm intrigued, Nora and Catherine, what about your thoughts about the role that farmers markets may play in communities?   Catherine - Well, Nora would agree with that. The farmers are their own community, and they appreciate the opportunity to meet each other across the aisle, across the tables. "How's things going on your farm?" "Let me tell you about what's happening at my place." Farming can be a really solitary profession. There's many, many hours spent as just one person on a tractor, one person planting seeds, one person weeding. To have the camaraderie and the opportunity to meet up with your peers, that's pretty powerful on a Saturday morning. It is a lot of time sometimes to give up. The better farmers markets, of course, are the ones where you're talking directly to the farmer. How did they prepare this soil, or are they certified naturally grown? What does that mean to them on their farm? You get to actually have that conversation with a client, but only in person. So, it's a big deal for the farmer.   Nora - Yes, for sure. I can speak to that. I feel like most farmers don't have a lot of neighbors close by, and we can feel isolated in our own little work bubbles. And so, a farmers market is the social event of the week for us. Many markets that I have been a part of will have a standing lunch afterwards, and it develops into friendships that are really deep. I also wanted to just mention, from the farmer perspective, the value of meeting customers who are purchasing things from me and my farm, from others and their farms. It's not just meet your farmer, but for us it's like meet your customers. And it's a chance to explain something, like why you're excited about the diversity of such and such crops, why it matters. There's only so much you can put into website descriptions and social media, and it's just two-dimensional. Having the opportunity to meet and share space, the farmers market is so essential, I think, to not only understanding our food and where it comes from and how it's produced, but increasing our value of it in this day where it seems like food is sometimes just an afterthought of convenience.   I love the idea of the farmers market being sort of like the water cooler for farmers to get together and swap stories and share in each other's joys and probably also frustrations and pains. I can imagine how that's a wonderful space for folks. I remember watching a farmers market, I was staying in a hotel, and this is how I can say it. They were there at five in the morning, and I was like, "What's all this noise?" And it was great to see all of these farmers, one, setting up, but then I could see some of those exchanges. I had a sense of like there was a real community there. So, that's wonderful. And this makes it clear that these farmers markets can be really beneficial for farmers. I'm interested to hear a little bit more on how farmers markets are supportive, if at all, to the financial wellbeing of farmers? Or is this just a labor of love? Is it just the water cooler?   Nora - I feel like they're super economically important, and I think where I would say most importantly is as new and beginning farmers who are establishing their businesses. It is an extremely unique place to be able to try out different produce offerings and pricing. It's like you're practicing everything before you're able to have a reputation to secure accounts that might be other versions of direct or indirect marketing. And so, farmers markets offer you that opportunity to gain instant feedback: "Did that sell, yes or no?" "What were the questions?" "What were the gripes?" It gives you constant feedback to be able to refine as you grow your business and make decisions for the coming years. That's not only important as a farmer independently, I was also involved with some farmer-training programs, and we really highlighted farmers markets as giving that opportunity.   That's a great insight, that it's almost like a farmer incubator. It helps farmers test out different marketing means.   Nora - 100%, yes.   I would love to hear from some of the others. Catherine, Maggie, what are your thoughts about the financial benefit of farmers markets?   Catherine - We keep talking about it, how it's so perfect for the farmer or for the producer but think of how perfect it is also for the shopper to keep coming to a place that's always trying to reinvent itself in serving better and better and better food. My local brick-and-mortar store doesn't do that. There are different priorities.   I am an economist. I am just loving this idea of price discovery in the market and the idea that each of these markets are different and they're idiosyncratic and there's something new happening. This is actually worthy of further study, but that's another conversation for another time. So, thank you for sharing.   Catherine - I think you know probably better than most that farming is not a get-rich-quick scheme by any means. There are many examples of people, friends, who are pouring their heart and soul and muscles and fingernails into growing better and better, and they have to love it. They don't usually pay themselves terribly well.   Maggie - Many of our farmers sell at multiple markets, and it's kind of funny to hear things like: "Oh, I can always sell my cucumbers at the Carrboro farmer's market, but I can never sell them at another market." It's so funny to think about how the different farmers markets are literally different economic markets, where our customer base has like their own kind of idiosyncratic interests, and maybe they love persimmons or something like that. At our farmers market, we're definitely an incubator farmers market.   I want to ask one last question. And I say it's last, and we will see how the conversation goes. Because this has been really a delight. For market managers and farmers, what does the North Carolina Farmers Market Network have to offer them? Catherine, why don't you begin?   Catherine - Just like seeing your friendly farmer neighbors in person on Saturday morning, it's also really fun and informational, educational, all those great words, to Zoom with the managers. We have a first Thursday of the month Zoom call to the managers who are members. We have a range of topics prepared. We have space for updates on legislature. We had somebody come in from Senior WIC to help us learn what they're doing for us. How to collect data from your farmers markets is really helpful for boards and municipalities and us as the network. We're going to be asking for data. How to send out a census. What's everybody doing for the kids programs that's new, haven't been tried before? So, that Thursday morning event has a good deal of value, we think. We also have a connection to Farmers Market Network, and we'll be able to offer discounts on insurances, I believe, as well as membership and access to their resource library, which is immense. We also wanted to make sure you knew that we were seeing other states like Virginia teach their managers best practices and have a market-management certificate, something we hope we can offer someday. We certainly will be hosting regional meetings to get to know the managers better. We have five regions around North Carolina. That'll be pretty educational. That'll have a program for it.   Nora - I would love to add to Catherine's description that in addition to being a place where farmers market managers come together, we're also a network that invites others who work in the food system and who are passionate about the same issues to become members. They're valuable voices to include in every conversation. For example, just the other week I sent out something, kind of a newsletter. I had some questions that market managers had been asking me about food-safety regulation issues for farmers markets, which comes up a lot. And in the responses, others who worked with NC State or Extension roles, piping in saying, "I have a good resource for that," or "Here's the answer." And I feel like the value of bringing together all these voices in the same room is huge.   Maggie - I love all of what Catherine and Nora were saying. You know, it occurs to me also that there are over 200 farmers markets in North Carolina. Supporting farmers markets is part of supporting North Carolina's agricultural fabric. It's part of supporting small-scale family farms, organic farms, spray-free farms. So, I think that if we can assist with marketing those farms and farmers markets, that feels very important and impactful to me. And then I also want to draw us back to education for larger stakeholders and maybe government organizations about some of our statewide initiatives like Double Bucks. I think that's where we can really offer a collective kind of impact, where maybe individual farmers markets don't have the capacity to work with larger stakeholders, but as a network we can come together and we can really have a much broader impact.   Bios   Maggie Funkhouser is currently serving as the interim Board Chair of the North Carolina Farmers Market Network. She is the Manager of the Carrboro Farmers' Market in Carrboro, NC, where she has worked since 2019. She was raised in North Carolina's Triangle and has worked in local food systems there for many years, including as an educator, gardener, baker, and foodservice industry worker before coming to the farmers market. She carries with her a love of writing, language, and storytelling from her classical education background, and she is drawn to foodways stories and oral histories. She is especially interested in the intersection of food access and farmers markets, as well as learning more about making farmers' markets inclusive, equitable, and accessible community spaces.  Catherine Elkins has long enjoyed the spirit and joy of farmers markets, starting in Pennsylvania visiting several Amish markets and continuing in North Carolina after moving to Chapel Hill. She volunteered for many years at the Carrboro Farmers' Market, and then after retirement, stole many of their successful strategies when designing, starting and managing the Olde Beaufort Farmers' Market. She also assists with the Carteret Local Food Network's Mobile Market which operates a red short school bus tricked out to serve many low income and senior communities in Carteret County with the freshest, most local produce and farm products from Carteret farmers. Nora Rodli is the Program Coordinator for the NC Farmers Market Network.  She brings over 25 years of agricultural experience from working as a farmer and with farmer training and education.  She also has a healthcare background as an advanced public health nurse (APHN).  Currently living and farming in Boone, NC, Nora is passionate about the primary roles that local food and increased access to local food can play in health promotion and disease prevention, resilient local food systems and vibrant inclusive communities.

Episode 55 is on the scene with analysis and reaction for the 2023 running of the Valley Star Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway. Hear from the biggest stars in Late Model Racing as they share their thoughts about racing for a Grandfather Clock. Brandon White with NASCAR Roots joins us to help break down the biggest and richest Late Model Stock Car race of the year. Trevor Ward not only got the biggest win of his career but also stamped his place in history by winning the Virginia Triple Crown. We discuss how big an impact this win is and dive into the duel that took place between himself and Landon Huffman. Speaking of Huffman, we reveal that this was his first LMSC race at the historic track, if he should've moved Ward out of the way to win and how happy team owner Barry Nelson is these days following very difficult times to start the season. We also break down the heat races,  how Bobby McCarty's dominant day turned into a smokeshow and much more including comments from the top five finishers on Sunday!Justin Mincey of the SMART Modified Tour joins us to help us break down the upcoming Radford Race honoring legend Paul "The Ferrum Flash" Radford. He also helps us welcome the 2023 Brad's Golf Cars Modified Champion from Bowman Gray Stadium and most recent winner on the SMART Modified tour powered by Pace-O-Matic Brandon Ward. Ward tells us about the win at Carteret County, preparing for one of his favorite tracks at Pulaski County Motorsports and how he was able to win a championship without winning a single race this year at Bowman Gray along with many other topics. He also reveals a shocking fact about his career and how he's getting ready to run at the famed North Wilkesboro Speedway on Saturday for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour the day before the SMART tour event at Pulaski County. We breakdown the Cup Series race at Texas and preview the shooting match that is Talladega for this weekend plus talk the next stop on the GXS Street stock Series at Tri-County, the Grand National Super Series at Dominion and much more!

Episode 52 is on the scene and we salute the track champions at South Boston Speedway for 2023!In part 1, we welcome 18 year old Kendall Milam who won the track championship for the VSP HEAT Hornets Division at the speedway. He explains how it was completely a family affair and how his clean driving allowed him to get to the top of the division. He also explains why his Uncle literally flipped out in Victory Lane Carl Edwards style! The young driver also describes how much pressure he was under and how he can have fun the rest of the racing season. He also discloses his tentative plans for 2024!The Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division at South Boston went to a familiar veteran of the speedway. Johnny Layne is now a three time champion at the speedway and he joins us to tell us all about his season which only saw him finish outside the top three only one time all year. The veteran driver tells us about difficulties of keeping the car counts up for the division, how it feels to put his name in the history books with so many other talented drivers before him and reveals his 2024 plans along with his daughters request for his racing and her budding softball career. It is a conversation you don't want to miss with both drivers.The guys break down Carter Langley's first Sentara Late Model Division championship over Peyton Sellers and Jason Myers winning the Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division title. They also break down the 150 lap late model race that took place. The boys give their thoughts on the Southern 500 from Darlington and give two drivers who came out a winner in the playoffs and two didn't come out to well. The boys break down the latest SMART Modified Tour event powered by Pace-O-Matic from Carteret County. Brandon Ward picked up the victory ending Burt Myer's three race win streak. There was a lot of action in this one so you will need to listen to hear all the analysis plus preview the next event this weekend from Dominion.The guys give their take on the upcoming Solid Rock Carriers Cars Tour event from New River All American Speedway. This leads to a debate about tire conservation races, Mason Diaz, will Carson Kvapil be as fast as Xfinity 10 G Internet next year and we make some picks for the race!You will also hear this week's short track spotlight, jojo's jaw droppers, Marty Ward Locked In analysis, pie picks, Kansas preview and more!Thank you as always for your continued support!

Episode 51 is on the scene and we have three big guests! Ronnie Bassett Jr has back to back third place finishes on the Solid Rock Carriers Cars Tour. He joins us to tell us about the momentum wave his team is riding and what the rest of the season holds for himself along with his team. Plus we find out just what was said between him and Mason Diaz after the two of them waged battle over the last several laps on Saturday. It's always a good discussion with Ronnie and hope you will enjoy it. Jacob Bradley has competed in Bandoleros and Legends cars at Wake County Speedway, Kingsport Speedway among other places. He has recently made a step up to the heavier Challenger division and won both races over the weekend at Wake County in front of the big CARS Tour crowd. He joins the podcast this week to discuss that and much more! We also give our recap of the latest event that saw Carson Kvapil come from 18th to win the event. Has he placed his stamp on the championship officially? Seems like we just said that last week but the question is legitimate. Plus we talk about the survival and the carnage that the Quarter mile bullring had to offer!For over 50 years, Franklin County Speedway in Callaway Virginia has provided a place for grass roots racers and the sports biggest starts a place to race. Langley Austin of Moonshine Capital Promotions is the Track Promoter and he joins the show to talk about the Cops racing around the track, the challenges of promoting in an area with limited amount of racers and money, how the summer has been for the race track and hyping up the upcoming Labor Day doubleheader. It is an eye opening conversation about promoting racing that you cannot miss.Jody and Julian break down the SMART Modified event powered by Pace-O-Matic from Ace and preview the next event at Carteret County. Does anyone have anything for Burt Myers after winning three events in a row on the tour?Julian gives you the Short Track Spotlight for this weekend and it is a busy one as Labor Day is traditionally a big weekend for racing as it spells the traditional end of summer and start of school for some.The guys break down Daytona and debate the safety of the Next Gen car after two vicious crashes on Saturday. Is Chris Buescher a championship contender after winning three of the last five races? The guys debate this, make their picks for Darlington and explain who's a lock for the next round of the playoffs and who will be eliminated after Bristol. All this and more on another jam packed episode of DLN!

Segment 3, July 29th, 2023 The Carolina Outdoors is now in session!  On this segment, host Bill Bartee, takes us to the county seat of Carteret County, NC.  Beaufort, NC, is spelled the same as a coastal town in SC with the difference being the pronunciation.  Beaufort, NC, is the fourth oldest city in the state (behind Bath, New Bern, & Edenton) founded in 1713 & home to the North Carolina Maritime Museum Beaufort (NCMMB). Christine Brin, Associate Education Curator for the NCMMB, joins the program to talk about the exhibits, events, & education opportunities that the Museum offers.  During the summer conventional and cane pole fishing classes are available to kids, enabling them to learn the a sport that they otherwise may not be introduced. Brin lets us know about the whaling exhibit & the traditions of North Carolina & whaling.  Many times the locals will name the whale, including Echo, who is on display at the Museum. Other popular exhibits involve Pirates.  In fact, the famed pirate Black Beard, grounded his ship the Queen Anne's Revenge in the nearby Beaufort Inlet. The opportunities during the summer are often on the increase due to the influx of tourists during the summer.  However, the Museum stays popular year round due to the programming and seasonal offerings. August brings a lecture series on female pirates, Ann Bonny & Mary Read, as well as another on the Hurricane of 1879. Brin mentions the event commemorating the Pirate Invasion of 1747, when the town was caught up in a battle against Spanish pirates. Christine Brin also describes one of her favorite events.  The Murder Mystery:  "Only Murders at the Museum" is taking place on September 1st, 2023.  Get your tickets while supplies last.     Wardrobe for the host was provided by Charlotte outdoor store, Jesse Brown's, the Charlotte store Patagonia & the Charlotte dealer for Free Fly.  

We're back! There's a new addition to Lucky 13 Motorsports. Aaron from SRI Indy drops in for Hot Laps.  Plus, Jared Fryar calls in after his win at Carteret County!

"Here we are in 2022 and we're still hearing those milestones being made. Yes, it is sad that you still have the firsts still being done. But what's rejoiceful is that it's coming..." Shoresides does a day in the life of a mayor. In this episode, we follow Beaufort, North Carolina Mayor Sharon Harker as she does what she does best. Host Sheresa Elliot and Mayor Harker  dig into what's top of mind for folks in Carteret County and what it means to Mayor Harker to be the first Black mayor of Beaufort.  Shoresides is a local news podcast by and for Carteret County, North Carolina. Serving the coastal region and beyond.Support the show

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the traditions of young people in  Carteret County, North Carolina. We use spoken word and sound to share the community and personal rituals that are meaningful to us. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound. In this episode, we share our final As Loud As I Want spoken word stories.This workshop and podcast is a project of Coastal Youth Media. This series is funded in part by a grant from the Carteret County Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the traditions of young people in  Carteret County, North Carolina. We documented our process, and today we're hosting Eastern North Carolina spoken word  poet Israel Sorenson. Sorenson will perform and give us tips for our own writing. We'll also recite and discuss former United States Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's piece 'Call Us'.This workshop and podcast is a project of Coastal Youth Media. This series is funded in part by a grant from the Carteret County Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the traditions of young people in  Carteret County, North Carolina. We use spoken word and sound to share the community and personal rituals that are meaningful to us. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  We documented our process, and today we're sharing the memories that remind us of where we come from.This workshop and podcast is a project of Coastal Youth Media. This series is funded in part by a grant from the Carteret County Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to As Loud As I Want, a podcast that reflects the traditions of young people in  Carteret County, North Carolina. We use spoken word and sound to share the community and personal rituals that are meaningful to us. This podcast was created by a series of workshops where we learned about poetry and the arts of sound.  We documented our process, and we're starting off by sharing a little bit about the customs we cherish.This workshop and podcast is a project of Coastal Youth Media. This series is funded in part by a grant from the Carteret County Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

In Carteret County, North Carolina finding affordable housing is getting tougher.  Forty percent of renters and twenty-two percent of households report that they are having a tough time with the rising cost of housing. In this episode, we dig into why there is so little affordable housing in the coastal region and what the future of making a home here is going to look like. We chat with Lynne Griffin, a local realtor who recently helped accomplish the largest survey on housing in our county. And we hear from two county residents on how the shortage is affecting their lives.  While the situation is tough there are steps we can take for affordable housing. Sources: Carteret Housing Survey, North Carolina Housing Coalition: Carteret ProfileSolutions: County leaders can take the following actions: 1) Set a goal 2) Policy changes 3) Development assistance 4) Bonds for affordable housing and 5) A home repair and repair prevention program or first time buyer program.Shoresides is a local news podcast by and for Carteret County, North Carolina. Serving the coastal region and beyond.Support the show (https://shoresides.org/support/)

As a mental health crisis surges nationwide, we examine how folks in the coastal North Carolina county of Carteret are affected. Three local therapists provide us with insights into handling the emotional challenges linked to the pandemic. Shoresides is a local news podcast by and for Carteret County, North Carolina. Serving the coastal region and beyond.Support the show (https://shoresides.org/support/)

This week, hosts Peter Ravella and Tyler Buckingham talk to the "Sandman" of Carteret County, Rudi Rudolph. Rudi has earned his nickname after spending his career in service to the beaches of Carteret County as the Coastal Protection Director, a complex job that has him juggling the interests of several coastal communities all in need of new sand.

Agriculture is, of course, affected greatly by storms, droughts, floods, heat and cold, and that makes it vulnerable to climate change. Experts discuss how climate changes affects North Carolina ag, how ag affects climate change, and how the industry can help address it.Our Guests Carl Crozier served for 24 years on the crop and soil sciences faculty at NC State. He is now a professor emeritus. He grew up in south Texas, where he worked on family ranch land. He studied biology at Baylor University, then plant ecology at Ohio State University. Before coming to NC State to earn a doctorate in soil science, he served in the Peace Corps, working on soil conservation projects in Honduras. His research interests include understanding how the interaction of plants and agricultural soils could lead to more efficient fertilizer use.Rod Rejesus, a professor and extension specialist with NC State's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, grew up in the Philippines. He earned an undergraduate degree at the University of the Philippines, a master's at Clemson University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interest in the economics of climate change evolved from his work on agricultural risk management and related policies. Rejesus is also an expert in economic assessments of agricultural technologies.Rebecca Ward is assistant state climatologist with the North Carolina State Climate Office. She's from Carteret County, along the coast, where hurricanes spurred her interest in meteorology. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from North Carolina State University, and she's working on a third – a doctorate in science education. She informs a variety of audiences on climate and weather, and she provides expertise that supports decision making in agriculture and other areas. Alex Woodley grew up in southern Ontario. He holds three degrees from the University of Guelph, where he studied environmental science and earned his doctorate in land resource science. He moved to North Carolina three years ago to join the faculty at NC State University as an assistant professor of soil science. His research, carried out at the Center for Environmental Farming Systems in Goldsboro, focuses on the mitigation and adaptation to climate change through soil productivity and profitability in sustainable cropping systems.ResourcesClimate Change, U.S. Department of AgricultureClimate Hubs, U.S. Department of AgricultureGreenhouse Gas Accounting and Mitigation, U.S. Department of Agriculture  The Role of Agricultural Science and Technology in Climate 21 Project Implementation: Council for Agricultural Science and TechnologyScience Policy Issues: Climate Change, Soil Science Society of America 

Charlotte and Jackie dig into their first listener ancestry episode featuring the Gillikin family with deep roots in Carteret County, North Carolina. Discussion includes George Decatur Gillikin and his pet alligator and some random  info about Blackbeard the pirate. Was he a real person and are the stories about the Hammock House in Beaufort true?

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Carteret County, North Carolina. We documented our process, and today we're hosting Wilmington, North Carolina spoken word  poet Brittani Smith. Smith will perform and give us tips for our own writing. We'll also recite and discuss North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green's 'Paper Dolls'.Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with I Am Her  in Beaufort, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from the Carteret County Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Carteret County, North Carolina. We have explored where we are from by telling our own stories, exploring what's around us, and trying to see Carteret County from a new perspective. In this episode, we share our final Where I Come From spoken word stories.Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with I Am Her  in Beaufort, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from the Carteret County Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Carteret County, North Carolina. We documented our process, and today we're sharing the memories that remind us of where we come from.Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with I Am Her  in Beaufort, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from the Carteret County Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

Welcome to Where I Come From. We are a group of young women going on a journey about our lives in Carteret County, North Carolina. We documented our process, and we're starting off by sharing a little bit about the places, people, and spaces  we come from.Where I Come From is a project of Coastal Youth Media in collaboration with I Am Her  in Beaufort, North Carolina. This project is funded in part by a grant from the Carteret County Arts Council and the North Carolina Arts Council with additional funding from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund. 

14-year-old reporter Alex Kies is exploring how the shrimping industry in his neck of the woods, Carteret County, North Carolina, is being impacted by climate change.  Alex speaks to 20-year shrimper, Thomas Smith, whose family has been working on the water for generations.Climate Stories | Youth Report is a podcast by Coastal Youth Media & NC Health News exploring how climate change is shaping our neighbors lives in unexpected ways. The project is funded in part by a grant by North Carolina Sea Grant through the Community Collaborative Research Program.

Hunters and carvers along the Core Sound have been hand-carving wooden duck decoys for well over a century. In this episode, three members of the Core Sound Decoy Carver's Guild on Harkers Island walk us through the history of that tradition, how it has changed, and what it can teach us about how culture moves. Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild: https://decoyguild.com/Wayne Davis: https://decoyguild.com/the-guild/Jerry Talton: https://jerrytaltondecoys.com/Casey Arthur: https://www.caseyadecoys.com/Joshua Hinson: http://www.lokosh.com/This episode was produced by Christian Green.Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, this series uncovers stories from artists across the coastal Carolina region.Support the show (https://shoresides.org/support/)

Sheresa Elliot, 31, of Beaufort, NC speaks about how her job as a therapist is informing her work as she continues to organize for Black Lives Matter in Beaufort, NC. Elliot had never worked on social justice issues before she organized nearly 500 people for Black Lives Matter protests within her town of about 4,000 last month. Elliot now is facilitating virtual town hall discussions with the Beaufort Police Department. Support the show (https://shoresides.org/support/)

For most of her childhood on Harkers Island, Abigail Garland didn't think she could become an artist because she couldn't draw. Then, a trip to a museum showed her how much more art could be than lines on canvas. Now, the 18 year old is working to make sure the next generation sees just how much art surrounds them.  Abigail Garland on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCesiL3lQ7YjZqoW5x3su7cgThis episode was produced by Christian Green.Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, this series uncovers stories from artists across the coastal Carolina region.Support the show (https://shoresides.org/support/)

In this episode: Under pressure from advocacy groups and media organizations, today North Carolina health officials have released details for the first time on the locations of dozens of nursing homes and other group living facilities with COVID-19 outbreaks across the state; over the next month, the state of North Carolina will double the number of people trained and employed to trace contacts of those exposed to coronavirus; Today, Carteret County reopened all county-run beaches including Salter Path, Radio Island and Harkers Island beach accesses; the CDC has added six new symptoms for COVID-19 to their list of potential symptoms; and finally, thousands of dollars have been raised to help North Carolina restaurant workers in need.

Bonnie Weeks, 36, is a labor and delivery nurse working at Carteret General Hospital in Morehead City, North Carolina, which is currently on semi-lockdown due to Coronavirus. Weeks has lived in Morehead City - a rural, coastal town of 9,000 people - all of her life. Most folks that come into the hospital work on the water or are in the military. Weeks speaks to how Coronavirus is affecting the local hospital in this tight-knit community. Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, this series compiles community stories about COVID-19 from coastal North Carolina. Music by Ketsa. Editing by Working Narratives team.Support the show (https://shoresides.org/support/)

Michael Turner, 42, is a math teacher at West Carteret High School in Morehead City, North Carolina - a rural, coastal town of 9,000 people. He runs the food pantry which supplements free & reduced lunch with take-home groceries. Now his job is to find and fulfill the gaps or 'soft spots’ in school food delivery during COVID-19. Broadcast from the Working Narratives studio, this series compiles community stories about COVID-19 from coastal North Carolina.Support the show (https://shoresides.org/support/)

Join us on this quest as we learn about John’s childhood goal to become a wizard, avoid homework, and survive family canoe trips right after hurricanes. He spent his early years in Warren County before moving to Carteret County and the easy-breezy life on Emerald Isle. With his first baby on the way, John reflects on fatherhood and what he learned from his dad. The gift for humor and cooking, (thanks to mama Fowler!) later developed into a passion for improv comedy and farm to table cooking. We really dig into the culture of improv, where to see it locally, and discuss evolving boundaries and inclusion in comedy. Mostly we just laugh a lot. Don’t forget to check out the bonus track if you want to hear more of their discussion on comedy!

For our final show of ASBPA 2019, we sit down with Rudi Rudolph, the Shore Protection Manager for Carteret County, North Carolina. Carteret County has distinguished itself as being one of the best managed beaches on the American shoreline. We discuss how the county developed its system of management and funding.

Get to know more about Marsha Sirkin from Carteret County, North Carolina as she discusses digital citizenship- and taking control of your digital footprint!

Managing beaches in an era of climate change. Two guests joined the podcast to discuss shoreline management at the local level. First, Dr. Robert Young from the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines discussed a recent report that they published which did a cost-benefit analysis of buying out property owners in North Topsail Beach, NC versus maintaining the shoreline. Then Greg "Rudi" Rudolph, the Shoreline Protection Manager for Carteret County, NC, talked about his day to day work, the mechanics of beach renourishment, and his perspective on the report. Rudi also shared how they plan for sea level rise. Read the report: Coastal Hazards & Targeted Acquisitions, A Reasonable Shoreline Management Alternative Host: Ben Kittelson

CARS Tour Series Director Chris Ragle sits down with RACE22.com Founder and Podcast host Langley Austin to discuss the business of the CARS Tour's eighth Late Model Stock Car race at Carteret County Speedway in Peletier, NC. They discuss the early morning rain, Chad McCumbee's run in qualifying and during the early laps of the race and a handful of odd moments that made up the race including the caution lights coming on and going off again, the lights going off in turn one and a corner worker calling his own caution without the tower. Ragle also discusses the accident that everyone is talking about with Deac McCaskill and Bobby McCarty. He talks about what he saw as the race director, the tough sightlines at Carteret and McCarty's comments about McCaskill helping Josh Berry win the championship. We also discuss Berry's late race dominance and taking the points lead plus some great runs by Sammy Smith and Justin S. Carroll. Plus, we talk the Throwback race at Hickory Motor Speedway including some schemes coming out, the honorees and vintage-looking apparel. Plus, so much more.

Since the 2016 election, our country has been questioning whether our elections are secure, fair, and accurate. In this episode, we examine the threats to our election administration, both real and overblown. Please Support Congressional Dish - Quick Links Click here to contribute a lump sum or set up a monthly contribution via PayPal Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Use your bank’s online bill pay function to mail contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North Number 4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes CD175: State of War CD172: The Illegal Bombing of Syria CD167: Combating Russia (NDAA 2018) LIVE CD108: Regime Change CD041: Why Attack Syria? Additional Reading Report: Dramatic increase in voters purged from voter rolls between 2014 and 2016 by Adia Robinson, ABC News, July 24, 2018. Article: Mueller's latest indictment suggests Russia's infiltration of U.S. election systems could get worse by Lawrence Norden, Slate, July 26, 2018. Article: State election officials didn't know about Russian hacking threat until the read it in the news, emails show by Sam Biddle, The Intercept, June 20, 2018. Article: Supreme court upholds Ohio's purge of voting rolls by Adam Liptak, The New York Times, June 11, 2018. Article: What we know and don't know about election hacking by Clare Malone, FiveThirtyEight, April 10, 2018. Report: America's voting machines at risk - An update by Lawrence Norden and Wilfred U. Codrington III, Brennan Center for Justice, March 8, 2018. Article: The dark roots of AIPAC: America's Pro-Israel Lobby by Doug Rossinow, The Washington Post, March 6, 2018. Article: Wyden presses leading US voting machine manufacturer on potential hacking vulnerabilities by Olivia Beavers, The Hill, March 6, 2018. Article: They myth of the hacker-proof voting machine by Kim Zetter, The New York Times, February 21, 2018. Article: No instant profits in US electronic voting machines, Financial Times, 2018. Article: Virginia is replacing some of its electronic voting machines over security concerns by Andrew Liptak, The Verge, September 10, 2017. Report: It took DEF CON hackers minutes to pwn these US voting machines by Iain Thomson, The Register, July 29, 2017. Article: Russian hackers broke into elections company used in Miami-Dade, Broward by Tim Elfrink, Miami New Times, June 6, 2017. Report: Exclusive: Trump says Clinton policy on Syria would lead to world war three by Steve Holland, Reuters, October 25, 2016. Article: The best Congress AIPAC can buy by L. Michael Hager, Foreign Policy Journal, March 22, 2016. Article: AIPAC-linked group launches $5 million ad campaign against nuke deal by Adam Kredo, The Washington Free Beacon, July 17, 2015. Article: The non-pliticians who profit from Election Day by Megan McCarthy, Fortune, November 4, 2014. Report: Diebold indicted: Its spectre still haunts Ohio election by Bob Fitrakis, Columbus Free Press, October 31, 2013. Article: The mysterious case of Ohio's voting machines by Kim Zetter, Wired, March 26, 2008. Letter: Elections: Federal efforts to improve security and reliability of electronic voting systems are under way, but key activities need to be completed, GAO, September 2005. Article: Ohio's odd numbers by Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair, March 2005. Article: Diebold's political machine by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, Mother Jones, March 5, 2004. Resources Brennan Center for Justice: The Help America Vote Act Congress.gov: S.2261 - Secure Elections Act GovTrack: H.R. 3295 (107th): Help America Vote Act of 2002 Internet Research Agency Indictment: Mueller John Husted, Secretary of State of Ohio Report: President/Vice President Voting Report: November 2, 2004 Justice.gov: New Indictment of Mueller Source Watch: Ashcroft Group Info Sound Clip Sources Hearing: Election Security Preparedness, Senate Rules and Administration Committee, C-SPAN, June 20, 2018. Witnesses: Matthew Masterson - National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security Jim Condos - Vermont Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft - Missouri Secretary of State Steve Simon - Minnesota Secretary of State Connie Lawson - Indiana Secretary of State Shane Schoeller - Clerk for Greene County, Missouri Noah Praetz - Director of Elections for Cook County, Illinois 2:40 Senator Roy Blunt (MO): January of 2017, the Department of Homeland Security designated our country’s election infrastructure to be critical infrastructure. This designation began the formalization of information sharing and collaboration among state, local, and federal governments through the creation of a Government Coordinating Council, some of our witness this day are already sitting on that newly formed council. More recently, in the 2018 omnibus, Congress appropriated right at $380 million to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to help states enhance their election infrastructure. As of this week, 38 states have requested $250 million of that money, and about 150 million of it has already been disbursed to the states. 6:45 Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN): So, we have a bill, Senator Lankford and I along with Senator Harris and Graham and Warner and Burr, Heinrich, and Collins. It’s a bipartisan bill called the Secure Elections Act, and we have been working to make changes to it along the way and introduce it as amendment, but it really does four things. First of all, improves information sharing between local election officials, cyber-security experts, and national-security personnel. Second, providing for development and maintenance of cyber-security best practices. We all know, I think there’s five states that don’t have backup paper ballots, and then there's something like nine more that have partial backup paper ballots. And while we’re not mandating what each state does, and we do not want each state to have the exact same election equipment—we think that would be a problem and could potentially lend itself to more break-ins—we think it’s really important that we have some floor and standards that we set that given what we know, I don’t think we’d be doing our democracy any good if we didn’t share that and we didn’t put in some floors. Third, the bill will promote better auditing our election’s use of paper backup systems, which I mentioned, and finally, it’s focused on providing election officials with much-needed resources. As you all know, we were able to get $380 million to be immediately distributed to the state, not play money, money that’s going out right now to states across the country, based on populations. We didn’t have some complicated grant process that would have slowed things down. The money went directly to state election officials as long as the state legislature authorizes it to get accepted and get to work to update their systems. 11:50 Jay Ashcroft: But before we move forward, we should briefly look back to the impetus of why we are all here today: allegations that outside actors threaten the integrity of our elections during the 2016 election cycle. While these are serious allegations, it is vitally important to understand that after two years of investigation, there is no credible—and I could strike “credible” and just put “evidence”—there is no evidence that these incidents caused a single vote or a single voter registration to be improperly altered during the 2016 election cycle. It was not our votes or our election systems that were hacked; it was the people’s perception of our elections. 30:50 Matthew Masterson: For those voters who have questions or concerns regarding the security or integrity of the process, I implore you to get involved. Become a poll worker; watch pre-election testing of the systems, or post-election audits; check your registration information before elections; engage with your state- and local-election officials; and most importantly, go vote. The best response to those who wish to undermine faith in our democracy is to participate and to vote. 1:08:00 Senator Roy Blunt (MO): Should the federal government make an audit trail, a paper audit trail, a requirement to have federal assistance? Jay Ashcroft: I don’t think so. Jim Condos: I do think so. Steve Simon: I think there is a federal interest in making sure that there's some audit process. Sen. Blunt: Well, now, what I’m asking about is, should there be a way to recreate the actual election itself? And I don’t know quite how to do that without paper, even if you had a machine that was not accessible to the web. Jay Ashcroft: I believe states are moving to do that, without federal legislation. So that’s why I don’t think that federal legislation needs to be done to that. 1:23:30 Shane Schoeller: I do want to address one area that concerns Secure Elections Act, that is on page 23, lines three, four, and five. It says, “Each election result is determined by tabulating marked ballots, hand or device.” I strongly recommend for post-election auditing purposes that a state-marked paper ballots, because I believe the opportunity for fraud in electronic ballot-casting system that does not have a paper trail’s too great. *1:32:00 Shane Schoeller: Even if you do a post audit with the machine, how would you know if something’s been compromised if you can’t at least compare the results of the paper ballot. And I think that’s the assurance it gives. Clearly, the machine, when you have an accurate election, does do a better job of counting the ballots. I’m talking about in the case where clearly fraud has occurred, then the paper ballot is going to be the evidence you need in terms of if your system inside that machine is compromised. 1:32:30 Senator Amy Klobuchar (MN): I think for a while people were talking about, well, why doesn’t everyone just vote from home, which is great when you can mail in a ballot, we know that, but vote from home just from your computer, and that would mean no paper records of anything. Could you comment about that? Noah Praetz: I think that’s 100% inappropriate for civil elections. Sen. Klobuchar: Got it. Shane Schoeller: I find it ironic because this is my first term, although I ran for this office in 2014, that was actually a common theme that I heard. Sen. Klobuchar: Right. I was hearing it, and I was—I kept thinking— Schoeller: Mm-hmm. Sen. Klobuchar: —about our state with, they’re not going to keep dwelling on it, with that high voter turnout. But, you know, that involved a paper ballot— voice off-mic: incredible integrity. Sen. Klobuchar: —and incredible integrity. But it involved people—they could vote by mail, and we’ve made that even easier, but they had actual paper ballots that they did, and then they were fed into this machine to count, with auditing. But you’re right. That’s what people were talking about. Why can’t you just do it from your home computer and have no backup, right? Schoeller: Right. And that was one of the things I actually had to disagree when that viewpoint was put forth, particularly in one city that I remember. And even after I became elected, I went to a conference of other elected officials, and there was a group of speakers, and they all were talking about this, and there was actually one speaker— Sen. Klobuchar: Like voting from Facebook. Schoeller: Correct. Sen. Klobuchar: Just kidding... Schoeller: But they actually disagreed, and I went up, and I think I was the only election official that day—this was prior to 2016—that didn’t think that it was a good idea. But I think we have evidence now from 2016 that clearly—that’s a convenience that we just can’t afford. 1:35:05 Noah Praetz: We’ve got a piece of paper that every voter looked at. Senator Amy Klobuchar: Mm-hmm. Praetz: So worst-case scenario, a Sony-type attack with full meltdown of all systems, we can recreate an election that’s trusted and true. Hearing: Election Security, Senate Judiciary Committee, C-SPAN, June 12, 2018. Witnesses: Adam Hickey - Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division at the Department of Justice Matthew Masterson - National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security Kenneth Wainstein - Partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP Prof. Ryan Goodman - New York University School of Law Nina Jankowicz - Global Fellow at the Wilson Center 9:00 Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA): We know that Russia orchestrated a sustained and coordinated attack that interfered in our last presidential election. And we also know that there’s a serious threat of more attacks in our future elections, including this November. As the United States Intelligence Community unanimously concluded, the Russian government’s interference in our election—and I quote—“blended covert intelligence operations, such as cyber activity, with overt efforts by the Russian government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social-media users or trolls.” Over the course of the past year and a half, we’ve come to better understand how pernicious these attacks were. Particularly unsettling is that we were so unaware. We were unaware that Russia was sowing division through mass propaganda, cyber warfare, and working with malicious actors to tip scales of the election. Thirteen Russian nationals and three organizations, including the Russian-backed Internet Research Agency, have now been indicted for their role in Russia’s vast conspiracy to defraud the United States. 39:40 Senator Mike Lee (UT): First, let’s talk a little bit about the integrity of our election infrastructure. We’ll start with you, Mr. Masterson. Were there any known breaches of our election infrastructure in the 2016 election? Matthew Masterson: Thank you, Senator. Yes, there was some publicly discussed known breaches of election infrastructure specifically involving voter-registration databases. Sen. Lee: Are there any confirmed instances of votes being changed from one candidate to another? Masterson: There are no confirmed instances of that. Sen. Lee: And were any individual voting machines hacked? Masterson: No, not that I know of. 42:55 ** Senator Mike Lee**: One approach to some of this, to the threat, the possibility of election infrastructure or voting machines being hacked from the outside is to go low-tech. Some states have gravitated toward that. For example, some states have started making moves back toward paper ballots so that they can’t be hacked. Is this something that’s helpful? Is it something that’s necessary that you think more states ought to consider? Matthew Masterson: Yeah. Senator, the auditability and having an auditable voting system, in this case, auditable paper records, is critical to the security of the systems. In those states that have moved in that direction have implemented means by which to audit the vote in order to give confidence to the public on the results of the election. In those states that have non-paper systems have indicated a desire—for instance, Pennsylvania—to more to auditable systems. And so at this point, resources are necessary to help them move that direction. Sen. Lee: By that, you mean either a paper-ballot system or a system that simultaneously creates a paper trail. Masterson: An auditable paper record. Correct, sir. 1:22:08 Senator Kamala Harris (CA): Will you talk a bit about what you have seen in terms of the risk assessments you’ve been doing around the country? I believe 14 states have been completed. Is that correct, 14? Matthew Masterson: I believe it’s 17 states have been completed— Sen. Harris: Right. Masterson: —thus far, as well as 10 localities. Sen. Harris: And what generally have you seen as being the vulnerabilities— Masterson: Sure. Sen. Harris: —in those assessments? Masterson: Thank you, Senator. Generally speaking, within the election’s infrastructure sector, we’re seeing the same typical vulnerabilities you’d see across IT systems, so managing software updates, outdated equipment or hardware, as well as general upgrades that need to take place as far as what configuration management within systems to limit the damage that could be done if something were to take place. And so— Sen. Harris: Resilience. Masterson: What’s that? Sen. Harris: Their resilience. Masterson: Yeah, their resilience. Sen. Harris: Mm-hmm. Masterson: Exactly. Thank you, Senator. And so this sector is no different in what we see in the work we’re doing with them. 2:15:00 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI): But what I want to talk about in my time is the problem of shell corporations, because for all of the emphasis that the witnesses have put on policing and prosecuting foreign influence in our elections, you can neither police or prosecute what you cannot find. And at the moment, we have both a shell-corporation problem, which was emphasized by Mark Zuckerberg in his testimony when he said their political advertisement-authentication program would only go to the first shell corporation and not seek any information about who was actually behind it. I don’t think Putin is stupid enough to call it Boris and Natasha, LLC. It’s going to sound more like Americans for Puppies and Peace and Prosperity. But it’s a front group, and it’s got Putin or whomever else behind it, and until we can know that, we cannot enforce effectively, period, end of story. Similarly, when our election system has these colossal channels for dark money, anonymized funding, if you can’t find out what special interest is behind anonymous money, you can’t find out if there’s a foreign interest behind that money. Darkness is darkness is darkness, and it hides malign activity, both foreign and domestic. And I’d like to ask each of you to comment on that. We’re concerned about trolling. Obviously, that’s facilitated by shell corporations. You talked about general propaganda campaigns. Obviously, facilitated by shell corporations. Campaign finance laws, you’ve called out for a need for effective disclosure. You can’t have effective disclosure if the only thing you’re disclosing is a front corporation and you don’t know who’s really behind it. So, if I could ask each of you three on that, then that’ll be the end of my time. Kenneth Wainstein: Sure, I’ll go first, Senator Whitehouse. And thank you for kind words, and good to work with you again. Always is. Sen. Whitehouse: We were good adversaries. Wainstein: We were. Adversaries who were working for the same goal. Sen. Whitehouse: Yes. Wainstein: Look, as a prosecutor, former prosecutor, looking at this issue, of course you want to know more about the corporations than less. There are obviously First Amendment issues and other concerns out there in the election context, but absolutely, there’s no way to sort of resist your logic, which is we’ve seen the use of corporations in a variety of contexts, whether it’s money laundering or otherwise, but we’ve seen here in the election interference and disinformation context, and a lot of that— Sen. Whitehouse: In fact, they’re widely used in the criminal context for money-laundering purposes and to hide the proceeds of criminal activities, correct? Wainstein: Absolutely. Sen. Whitehouse: So to the extent that what Putin is running is essentially a criminal enterprise of himself and his oligarchs. Why would they not look to what criminal enterprises do as a model? Wainstein: Yeah, it’s meat-and-potatoes criminal conduct. Sen. Whitehouse: Yeah. Wainstein: No question. And all intended to hide the fact of the source of this malign activity. Hearing: Election Security, Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, C-SPAN, February 13, 2018. Witnesses: Robert Butler - Co-Founder and Managing Director, Cyber Strategies LLC Heather Conley - Director of the Europe Program Center for Strategic and International Studies Former Dep. Asst. Sec. of State for EU & Eurasian Affairs in GWB admin, 2001-2005 Richard Harknett - Professor of Political Science and Head of Political Science Department, University of Cincinnati Michael Sulmeyer - Director, Cyber Security Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University 7:15 Senator Ben Nelson: First, the department has cyber forces designed and trained to thwart attacks on our country through cyberspace, and that’s why we created the Cyber Command’s National Mission Teams. A member of this subcommittee, Senator Blumenthal, Senator Shaheen, we all wrote the secretary of defense last week that they, the department, ought to be assigned to identify Russian operators responsible for the hacking, stealing information, planting misinformation, and spreading it through all the botnets and fake accounts on social media. They ought to do that. That’s—the Cyber Command knows who that is. And then, we ought to use our cyber forces to disrupt this activity. We aren’t. We should also be informing the social-media companies of Russia’s fake accounts and other activities that violate those companies’ terms of service so that they can be shut down. 18:20 Heather Conley: You asked us what role DOD could play to protect the U.S. elections, and I think, simply, DOD working with Congress has got to demand a hold of government strategy to fight against this enduring disinformation and influence operation. We don’t have a national strategy. Unfortunately, modernizing our nuclear forces will not stop a Russian influence operation. That’s where we are missing a grave threat that exists in the American people’s palm of their hand and on their computer screens. 19:05 Heather Conley: As one of the most trusted institutions in the United States, the Department of Defense must leverage that trust with the American people to mitigate Russian influence. Simply put, the Department of Defense has to model the bipartisan and fact-based action, behavior, and awareness that will help reduce societal division. This is about leadership, it’s about protecting the United States, and as far as I can see, that is in the Department of Defense job description. Hearing: Cybersecurity of Voting Machines, House Oversight Subcommittee and Government Reform Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Affairs, C-SPAN, November 29, 2017. Witnesses: Christopher Krebs - Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary National Protection & Programs Directorate, Department of Homeland Security Tom Schedler - Secretary of State of Louisiana Edgardo Cortes - Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections Matthew Blaze - Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania 4:24 Representative Robin Kelly (IL): In September of this year, DHS notified 21 states that hackers affiliated with the Russian government breached or attempted to breach their election infrastructure. In my home state of Illinois, the hackers illegally downloaded the personal information of 90,000 voters and attempted to change and delete data. Fortunately, they were unsuccessful. 5:05 Representative Robin Kelly (IL): Earlier this year, researchers at the DEF CON conference successfully hacked five different direct-recording electronic voting machines, or DREs, in a day. The first vulnerabilities were discovered in just 90 minutes. Even voting machines not connected to the Internet still contained physical vulnerabilities like USB ports that can be used to upload malware. Alarmingly, many DREs lack the ability to allow experts to determine that they have been hacked. Despite these flaws, DREs are still commonly used. In 2016, 42 states used them. They were more than a decade old, with some running outdate software that is no longer supported by the manufacturer. 20:30 Tom Schedler: In terms of voting-machine security, remember that with the passage of the Help America Vote Act in 2002, states were required to purchase at least one piece of accessible voting equipment for each polling place. 23:55 Edgardo Cortes: Virginia has twice has been put in the unfortunate position of having to decertify voting equipment and transition to new equipment in a condensed timeframe, based on security concerns of previously used DREs. These steps outlined in detail in my written testimony were not taken lightly. They place a financial and administrative stress on the electoral system. They were, however, essential to maintain the public’s trust and the integrity of Virginia elections. The November 2017 general election was effectively administered without any reported voting-equipment issues. Thanks to the ongoing partnership between the state, our hardworking local election officials, and our dedicated voting-equipment vendors, the transition to paper-based voting systems on a truncated time line was incredibly successful and significantly increased the security of the election. 25:45 Edgardo Cortes: To ensure the use of secure voting equipment in the future, Congress should require federal certification of all voting systems used in federal elections. This is currently a voluntary process. Federal certification should also be required for electronic poll books, which currently are not subject to any federal guidelines. 28:20 Matthew Blaze: Virtually every aspect of our election process, from voter registration to ballot creation to casting ballots and then to counting and reporting election results, is today controlled in some way by software. And unfortunately, software is notoriously difficult to secure, especially in large-scale systems such as those used in voting. And the software used in elections is really no exception to this. It’s difficult to overstate how vulnerable our voting infrastructure that’s in use in many states today is, particularly to compromise by a determined and well-funded adversary. For example, in 2007 our teams discovered exploitable vulnerabilities in virtually every voting-system component that we examined, including backend election-management software as well as particularly DRE voting terminals themselves. At this year’s DEF CON event, we saw that many of the weaknesses discovered in 2007, and known since then, not only are still present in these systems but can be exploited quickly and easily by non-specialists who lack access to proprietary information such as source code. 38:40 Matthew Blaze: The design of DRE systems makes their security dependent not just on the software in the systems but the hardware’s ability to run that software correctly and to protect against malicious software being loaded. So an unfortunate property of the design of DRE systems is that we’ve basically given them the hardest possible security task. Any flaw in a DRE machine’s software or hardware can become an avenue of attack that potentially can be exploited. And this is a very difficult thing to protect. Representative Gary Palmer: Do we need to go to, even if we have some electronic components to back it up with paper ballots because your fallback position is always to open the machine and count the ballots? Blaze: That’s right. So, precinct-counted optical-scan systems also depend on software, but they have the particular safeguard, but there is a paper artifact of the voter’s true vote that can be used to determine the true election results. DRE, paperless DRE systems don’t have that property, and so we’re completely at the mercy of the software and hardware. 47:00 Christopher Krebs: When you characterize these things as attacks, I think that is perhaps overstating what may have happened in the 21 states, as was mentioned, over the course of the summer. The majority of the activity was simple scanning. Scanning happens all the time. It’s happening right now to a number of probably your websites. Scanning is a regular activity across the web. I would not characterize that as an attack. It’s a preparatory step. 58:15 Matthew Blaze: There is no fully reliable way to audit these kinds of systems. We may get lucky and detect some forensic evidence, but ultimately the design of these systems precludes our ability to do a conclusive audit of the voter’s true intent. That’s why paperless systems really need to be phased out in favor of things like optical-scan paper ballots that are counted at the precinct but backed by an artifact of the voter’s true intent. 1:02:42 Tom Schedler: The system that we’re looking at, we’re not out for bid yet, would be one that would produce, even though you would vote on an electronic machine, it would produce an actual paper ballot that you could hold in your hand—Representative Paul Mitchell (MI): My concern with that— Schedler: —and then cast ballot only with that point when you put it into a secure box. Rep. Mitchell: My concern with that, and Dr. Blaze makes the point, is that if you produce a paper result after you put something into the machine, if in fact the machine is tampered with, you could in fact end up with just confirming the tampered information. Schedler: Yes, sir. Speech: Hillary Clinton on National Security and the Islamic State, Council on Foreign Relations, November 19, 2015. 12:35 Hillary Clinton: So we need to move simultaneously toward a political solution to the civil war that paves the way for a new government with new leadership and to encourage more Syrians to take on ISIS as well. To support them, we should immediately deploy the special operations force President Obama has already authorized and be prepared to deploy more as more Syrians get into the fight, and we should retool and ramp up our efforts to support and equip viable Syrian opposition units. Our increased support should go hand in hand with increased support from our Arab and European partners, including Special Forces who can contribute to the fight on the ground. We should also work with the coalition and the neighbors to impose no-fly zones that will stop Assad from slaughtering civilians and the opposition from the air.   Hearing: Electronic Voting Machines, House Administration Committee, C-SPAN, September 28, 2006. Witnesses: Edward Felton - Computer Science Professor at Princeton University Keith Cunningham - Board of Elections Director of Allen County, Ohio Barbara Simons - Association for Computer Machinery, Public Policy Committee Co-Chair 19:54 Edward Felten: Two weeks ago my colleagues, Ari Feldman and Alex Halderman, and I released a detailed security analysis of this machine, the Diebold AccuVote-TS, which is used in Maryland, Georgia, and elsewhere. My written testimony summarizes the findings of our study. One main finding is that the machines are susceptible to computer viruses that spread from machine to machine and silently transfer votes from one candidate to another. Such a virus requires moderate computer-programming skills to construct. Launching it requires access to a single voting machine for as little as one minute. 1:45:23 Keith Cunningham: Can they be improved? Absolutely, and I think throughout my comments I was very definite to say that these machines, as they currently sit, are not reliable. My question back to you, though, in that regard is, who’s going to pay to fix it, because one of the problems we have right now is in the last 24 months every election jurisdiction in this country has spent the $3 billion we spoke about earlier on new election equipment, and that’s what’s in place. So without somebody stepping forward to fund that enterprise, I don’t know how we’re going to improve them ourselves. 1:51:00 Barbara Simons: I wanted to remind the panelists of what happened in Carteret County, North Carolina, in, I believe it was, ’04, where paperless DREs were used and over 4,000 votes were lost. I mean, there's this concern about being able to reprint paper ballots or paper VVPATs. When you lose votes in a DRE, which has no paper, there is nothing you can do, and in fact, there was an election for—the statewide election—for agricultural commissioner, where the separation between the two candidates was such that the results could have been reversed by those missing votes. And it went to court, it went to two different courts, where they first tried to hold a recount just for the county itself. That was thrown out. Then it went for a statewide recount, and that was thrown out because we had no laws to deal with what happens when DREs fail. And finally, there were a number of people who submitted subpoenas or petitions say they had voted for one of the candidates, and based on those submissions, it looked like the judge was going to declare that candidate the winner, and so that was how the election was decided. This is not a way to hold elections in this country. Community Suggestions See more Community Suggestions HERE. Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio)  

Today I have some really good information to share about the Crystal Coast real estate market. Many of you already know that The Star Team has been collecting data and compiling local market statistics for the last 20 years. Traditionally, we snail mail and email our quarterly reports that are included in our newsletters and we frequently highlight this data on our weekly radio shows. Each quarter, we’ll be adding this very important data to our real estate videos and blogs. In addition, we’re making this summary data and the complete report available online at http://www.starteamrealestatereport.com/. Here are some important statistics from the last year that you need to know now: •    Total unit sales for all properties were up 16.2% from 2016.•    Average selling price was up 6.9% compared to 2016.•    Total dollar sales were up 24.2% compared to 2016.•    Total inventory was down 4.6% compared to 2016.•    Pending contracts for all properties were up 14.4% over 2016. “You can get the full report right here on this page.”This is the strongest market we have seen since the peak in 2005. This first chart in the video above illustrates the unit sales trends for all residential properties in Carteret County since the last peak in 2005. As you can see, our market peaked in 2005 and was in steady decline through 2009. Finally, we saw our first overall increase in 2010 and this has continued for eight straight years. Sales have been strong through the end of 2017, and we believe this trend will continue and that the number of total sales will pass our 2005 peak within the next couple of years. The next chart is for the average sale price for residential properties. This second chart shows the average sale prices for the past 12 years. You can see the average price peaked in 2007, then took a dive for three straight years. Beginning in 2010, we observed fluctuating prices through 2014. Since 2014, the average has been on a steady rise and ended the year close to $300,000. As our inventory continues to decrease, we believe we will continue to see increases in prices as we enter into a more balanced market. The final chart demonstrates that our inventory has grown from a low of 5.4 months in 2005 to its peak of 21.4 months in 2009. We have seen a steady decline in inventory for the past eight years since that 2009 high. We currently have a 7.6-month supply, which is moving toward a balanced market. We are seeing many areas in residential property that are now in short supply and as a result, prices are increasing. 2017 was a great year for us at The Star Team and 2018 is going to be even better. If you have any questions for us in the meantime, or if you need any help buying or selling real estate, don’t hesitate to reach out and give us a call or send us an email. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Neal Hutcheson is a documentary filmmaker with an ear for language and a knack for letting his subjects tell their own story. His day job is making films for the North Carolina Language and Life Project at N.C. State University. Neal has made films documenting the strange and wonderful dialects in North Carolina — from the rugged mountaineers to the Hoi Toiders on Okracoke Island and fishermen down east in Carteret County. For the past decade, though, Neal had an interesting friendship with Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton — the famous, or infamous — moonshiner from Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Neal’s latest documentary — “A Hell Of A Life” — shows a true and unvarnished picture of Popcorn Sutton, outside the glossy, popular myth that Popcorn — and popular culture — created about him in the last years of his life. Learn more about the film at Neal's website: http://www.suckerpunchpictures.com Audio excerpts from "A Hell Of A Life" and "An Unclouded Day" both produced by Neal Hutcheson.

For the residents of Eastern Carteret County, NC, commercial fishing has been a way of life for three centuries, but the sustained seclusion that has protected their culture is fast eroding. The ecology and character of the community is challenged on all sides by development, pollution, and globalization of the seafood industry, with the Carolina watermen and their heritage hanging in the balance.

Anne Edwards, Horticultural Agent in Carteret County, visits Harkers Island to talk with the coordinator of the Pollinator Flower Garden. Anne shares the best plants to include in gardens to attract insects.

Anne Edwards, Horticultural Agent in Carteret County, visits Gwendy Womble of the NC Aquarium; Pine Knoll Shores, to talk about setting up a Carnivorous Bog Garden.