Dec 29, 2021
As the year ends, Tim and Ben are inviting a couple of friends of the program to look back at all the big stories of 2021.
This insightful, yet hilarious discussion will review COVID-19 still dominating headlines, DHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen leaving, redistricting debates, the 2022 U.S. Senate race and the first state...
Dec 22, 2021
On this week’s episode of “Tying It Together with Tim Boyum,” North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore (R) joins Tim and Ben to talk about a budget finally signed for the first time since 2018.
Listen in as he goes in depth about how close the state really is, or is not, to approving Medicaid expansion. Then, he...
Dec 15, 2021
In late November, we were honored to get an Emmy nomination for a TV story on North Carolina Representative Brian Turner. The story focused on the challenges of leaving your family behind and commuting four hours for four days a week to be a state lawmaker.
Ironically, just hours before that Emmy nomination, Rep....
Dec 8, 2021
Ed Fitts was born and raised in Littleton, North Carolina, but in 1957, he left the town for N.C. State and went on to make a fortune selling packaging to fast food companies.
Now, Fitts has returned to the tiny town that has dwindled to less than 600 residents. He is investing with high speed internet, a school, a...
Dec 1, 2021
You may know him as a famous White House correspondent for NBC News or NPR, but we know Geoff Bennett as simply Geoff.
Before he made it big, he was one of our Washington DC reporters. Tim and Geoff spent hours, days and weeks covering national political conventions and will trade stories including one with Triumph...