Recorded February 11, 2026, before the March primary, which McDuffie went on to win. Published as it aired. Welcome to the Carolina Cabinet, Cumberland County's smartest hour of talk radio. Peter Pappas and Laura Mussler sit down in studio with Troy McDuffie, the Democratic candidate for Cumberland County Sheriff. McDuffie traces a career that runs from the 82nd Airborne to the Fayetteville Police Department, where he worked patrol, child abuse and homicide cases. From there he served as chief

Recorded June 8, 2026, and published as it aired. Some of the stories discussed, including Fayetteville's data center ordinance, have moved since. Welcome to the Carolina Cabinet, Cumberland County's smartest hour of talk radio. Peter Pappas and Laura Mussler are joined in studio by local attorney Jonathan Strange, the Republican candidate for NC District Court Judge, District 14, Seat 5. First up is school choice. The General Assembly overrode Governor Stein's veto, and the table debates whet

Welcome back to the Carolina Cabinet, Cumberland County's smartest hour of talk radio. Peter Pappas and Laura Mussler open on Fayetteville City Manager Doug Hewett, who announced he'll step down before the end of 2026 after more than ten years in the job. Voters elect a mayor and nine council members, those ten hire one person, and that person runs everything else. With 911 consolidation and the data-center rules still in progress, Peter asks the council: who's steering while you're hiring? The

Welcome back to the Carolina Cabinet, Cumberland County's smartest hour of talk radio. Peter Pappas and Laura Mussler sit down with Judge Michael Byrne, an administrative law judge at the NC Office of Administrative Hearings and the Republican candidate for the North Carolina Court of Appeals, Seat 1. Byrne explains how an NC State English major headed for Washington think tanks ended up practicing law for thirty-plus years, and why the best advice he ever got was three words: "Get it right." H

Welcome back to the Carolina Cabinet, Cumberland County's smartest hour of talk radio. Host Peter Pappas sits down with Judge Craig Collins, a sitting Superior Court judge and the Republican candidate for the North Carolina Court of Appeals, Seat 3. Collins has worked as a prosecutor, in private practice and as a District Court judge before taking the Superior Court bench. He says he's put about 100,000 miles on the car this campaign, and he admits he plans his routes around the best milkshakes

Welcome back to the Carolina Cabinet. Host Peter Pappas sits down with Troy McDuffie, the Democratic candidate for Cumberland County Sheriff, who rebuilt Spring Lake's police department after the sheriff's office spent more than a year covering the town. McDuffie says he'd keep the sheriff's office's new pay plan, which starts deputies at $54,735 and reaches top pay in 13 years instead of 23, and fine-tune it rather than start over. Peter presses him on why voters should change sheriffs if, as