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And the state attorney general is watching gas stations to make sure they pass along the savings from the gas tax suspension to customers.

When we see those outliers, we will react.

So here to fill us in on those stories and more is Eli Portillo, WFAE senior editor.

Mary C. Curtis is a columnist for RollCall.com, host of their Equal Time podcast.

And Eric Spanberg is managing editor of the Charlotte Business Journal.

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I'm Mike Collins.

There have been problems at CNS in the past, but nothing quite like this.

She cycled off the board in December after losing her reelection campaign.

While on the board, among other things, she was chair of the Finance Committee.

And we're joined this hour by WFAE education reporter James Farrell and WFAE politics reporter Steve Harrison.

Good morning to you all and thank you for joining us.

Good morning.

In fact, it's despicable.

I applaud WFAE's new series that they're starting on respectable disagreement without disdain or seeking to destroy.

It's timely.

Okay, hang on a second.

They might win that day, the day the poll was taken, but not a week and a half later.

Our guest is Ruth Igielnik, polling editor for The New York Times on Charlotte Talks on WFAE.

The New York Times, as I said, conducts its own polling, often with the Siena College Research Institute.

Have you altered, the two of your organizations, have you altered in any way the way you conduct your polls or weigh the results?

I think that's why the campaigns are making these kinds of decisions.

We're going to talk about a lot of different things with regard to polling as we go through the rest of this hour, including the science behind polling and, most importantly, how we as individuals should be using these polls as they come out heading toward Election Day and whether or not they actually influence the outcome on Election Day.

We'll be doing that as we go through the hour here on Charlotte Talks on WFAE.

So polls in South Carolina, Chris, show that the Senate race between Republican Darlene Graham Nordone and Andy Andrews is much closer than a typical South Carolina Senate statewide race would normally be.

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Shaw University in North Carolina was the site of the country's first four-year medical school and trained some 400 black physicians during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Good luck with the book.

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Here to fill us in on those stories and more is Steve Harrison, WFAE's political reporter.

Nick Della Canal is with us.

He's WFAE reporter and host of All Things Considered locally.

And Alexandria Sands is here, a reporter for Axios Charlotte.

Good morning, everybody.

At the state level, it appears that, you know, Mecklenburg District Attorney Spencer Merriweather asked the FBI to come in and investigate, and that kind of was in response to the media coverage and former Superintendent Hill's memo.

So I think at the state level, I don't think we can read so much in that they know more perhaps than we did at the time.