Audrey Fannin

The Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is expected to be in full effect in 2014, but parts of it have already been implemented.  Justin Catanoso, contributing writer for the Business Journal and director of the journalism program at Wake Forest University, discusses one major part of health care overhaul that goes into effect this year with WFDD’s Audrey Fannin.

A group of relief workers from North Wilkesboro are in West, Texas this week, helping residents affected by a chemical plant explosion last week.  Todd Taylor of Boone is the program manager for Samaritan’s Purse U-S Disaster Relief.  He’s been in West since last Thursday.  Taylor says the group of disaster responders also helped victims of Hurricane Sandy, and just wrapped up their work in Mississippi, where a tornado struck just a few weeks ago.

A sea change is underway in the legal profession, and that’s trickling down to law schools across the nation.  Justin Catanoso, contributing writer for the Business Journal and director of the journalism program at Wake Forest University, discusses what this means for law students with WFDD’s Audrey Fannin.

  A new historical marker will be erected Saturday in Winston-Salem to recognize Local 22, a union that formed at R-J Reynolds in the 1940's.  In 1943, African American leaf workers initiated a sit-down strike at R-J Reynolds over worker concerns for health and safety.  The commemoration activities will begin at noon with a panel discussion at First Calvary Baptist Church.  Participants will then march to the tobacco district's historical marker site at the corner of Fourth St. and Martin Luther King Drive.

Education in North Carolina is changing with the times. Governor Pat McCrory wants public schools to make the transition from paper to bits and bytes. Business Journal contributing writer Justin Catanoso and WFDD's Audrey Fannin discuss the plan to begin using digital textbooks.  Justin Catanoso is the director of the journalism program at Wake Forest University.