Welcome back to the Carolina Cabinet. Host Peter Pappas sits down with Ron Ross, a Gray's Creek resident who spent 56 years with the Boys and Girls Clubs and the Republican candidate in a four-way race for two at-large seats on the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners. Ross says running a nonprofit taught him not to waste a dollar, and he points to the canceled downtown event center as the waste he's running against. He lives with PFAS-contaminated well water and argues Chemours should pay t

Welcome back to the Carolina Cabinet. Host Peter Pappas sits down with Johnathaun Lee, an Army veteran and 15-year home health care business owner, and one of 16 candidates for three at-large seats on the Cumberland County Board of Education. Lee says his 2024 District 2 run taught him that a passion to serve isn't the same as the knowledge to serve. He explains why vouchers aren't the school board's call, and why he agreed with closing schools: the board has to manage buildings as facilities, n

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