It’s been a big year for anti-data center activism in North Carolina. WFDD’s April Laissle has had a front-row seat, attending packed public meetings across the Piedmont and listening to hours of testimony from concerned residents. With Election Day imminent, she wanted to know: how is the debate carrying over to the midterms?
For this week’s Carolina Curious, we brought the question to Western Carolina University political science professor Chris Cooper.
Interview Highlights
On the debate becoming a major campaign issue:
“I think we could have predicted that the economy would matter. We could have predicted that prices and affordability and all that would
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