CAROLINA Focus with Sharon Thorsland, Jim Szoke and Ed Billick – Sunday Aug 24, 2025

Guest - Dr. Lyn Nuse, Sr Medical Director for Atrium Health Levine Children’s discussing virtual primary care that Levine now offers. Excellent tool for parents as we head back to school. The details and advantages of this new way to see your physician with Sharon/Ed

Patrick Kiker the VP of Marketing & Communications at NAIMA - topic With the recent passage of the Rescissions Act, the 25C tax credit that helps consumers have more energy-efficient homes is set to expire at the end of the year. This credit, also known as the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit, provides tax relief of up to $1,200 to homeowners who make energy-efficient insulation upgrades to their residence. Many of you may be unaware of the benefits of this tax credit and are living in under-insulated homes. With Ed

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CAROLINA Focus with Sharon Thorsland, Jim Szoke and Ed Billick – Sunday Aug 24, 2025

Guest - Dr. Lyn Nuse, Sr Medical Director for Atrium Health Levine Children’s discussing virtual primary care that Levine now offers. Excellent tool for parents as we head back to school. The details and advantages of this new way to see your physician with Sharon/Ed

Patrick Kiker the VP of Marketing & Communications at NAIMA - topic With the recent passage of the Rescissions Act, the 25C tax credit that helps consumers have more energy-efficient homes is set to expire at the end of the year. This credit, also known as the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit, provides tax relief of up to $1,200 to homeowners who make energy-efficient insulation upgrades to their residence. Many of you may be unaware of the benefits of this tax credit and are living in under-insulated homes. With Ed

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On this Sunday Aug 17, 2025 episode of CAROLINA Focus with Sharon Thorsland, Jim Szoke and Ed Billick

Tom Arnold, a cybersecurity expert and author focused on keeping kids safe online with Sharon

Theresa Payton our cyber security expert joins Bo and Beth to talk about Reddit blocking the internet archive from “A.I. scraping”, as well as medical professionals raising concerns after an A.I. bot reportedly referenced body parts that didn’t exist when attempting to diagnose a patient

Nick Craig, host, Carolina Journal News Hour on WBT shares that North Carolina has received a $4 million grant to expand workforce re-entry training programs

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On this Sunday Aug 17, 2025 episode of CAROLINA Focus with Sharon Thorsland, Jim Szoke and Ed Billick

Tom Arnold, a cybersecurity expert and author focused on keeping kids safe online with Sharon

Theresa Payton our cyber security expert joins Bo and Beth to talk about Reddit blocking the internet archive from “A.I. scraping”, as well as medical professionals raising concerns after an A.I. bot reportedly referenced body parts that didn’t exist when attempting to diagnose a patient

Nick Craig, host, Carolina Journal News Hour on WBT shares that North Carolina has received a $4 million grant to expand workforce re-entry training programs

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On this episode of CAROLINA Focus with Sharon Thorsland, Jim Szoke and Ed Billick

Profiles in Broadcasting - Sharon Thorsland - Celebrating her 25-year career at WBT

Born/ Raised - is an identical twin. In college a pre-med major .... fell in love w/communications and sports. Her mother a big influence in getting her into radio!

From WNSR in NYC to Grad School at UNC - got a job at Florida State and other assignments along the way.

Jim interviewed Sharon, hired at WBT Summer of 2000!

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On this episode of CAROLINA Focus with Sharon Thorsland, Jim Szoke and Ed Billick

Profiles in Broadcasting - Sharon Thorsland - Celebrating her 25-year career at WBT

Born/ Raised - is an identical twin. In college a pre-med major .... fell in love w/communications and sports. Her mother a big influence in getting her into radio!

From WNSR in NYC to Grad School at UNC - got a job at Florida State and other assignments along the way.

Jim interviewed Sharon, hired at WBT Summer of 2000!

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On this Sunday Aug 3, 2025 Episode of CAROLINA Focus with Sharon Thorsland and Ed Billick

23rd Monsignor McSweeney World Hunger Drive - guests include the folks from St Matthew RC Church. They discuss their mission from Meal Packing to fund raising and the great work in Haiti. Guests: Brother Prisca and Father Saran–Brothers with the Missioaries of the Poor in Cap Haitien, Haiti. They serve the Lord by caring for the disabled, orphans and the ailing elderly with love and respect, at their mission facility. Steve Favory – Co-Leader of the MMWHD and Executive Director of Hands for Haiti which operates St Marc’s School in Tremesse, Haiti.

Deacon Daren Bitter – Daren is a Deacon at St Matthew Catholic Church and is on the MMWHD leadership committee. He has led multiple Mission Trips to Haiti to work with the Missionaries of the Poor. Robert Manning – a member of the MMWHD leadership team and on many occasions, he has volunteered his time in Haiti. Bruce Anderson – serves on the MMWHD leadership team, and he has helped complete several projects and Sean Balbirnie – who has been a very active young adult at St Matthew. He and his team created and have led the Hoops for Hunger event which is a component of the MMWHD campaign. The Hoops for Hunger effort has been very successful in drawing kids, teens and young adults for a day of fun while bringing awareness to the plight of others and generating funds in support of the MMWHD. Conversations w/Ed

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On this Sunday Aug 3, 2025 Episode of CAROLINA Focus with Sharon Thorsland and Ed Billick

23rd Monsignor McSweeney World Hunger Drive - guests include the folks from St Matthew RC Church. They discuss their mission from Meal Packing to fund raising and the great work in Haiti. Guests: Brother Prisca and Father Saran–Brothers with the Missioaries of the Poor in Cap Haitien, Haiti. They serve the Lord by caring for the disabled, orphans and the ailing elderly with love and respect, at their mission facility. Steve Favory – Co-Leader of the MMWHD and Executive Director of Hands for Haiti which operates St Marc’s School in Tremesse, Haiti.

Deacon Daren Bitter – Daren is a Deacon at St Matthew Catholic Church and is on the MMWHD leadership committee. He has led multiple Mission Trips to Haiti to work with the Missionaries of the Poor. Robert Manning – a member of the MMWHD leadership team and on many occasions, he has volunteered his time in Haiti. Bruce Anderson – serves on the MMWHD leadership team, and he has helped complete several projects and Sean Balbirnie – who has been a very active young adult at St Matthew. He and his team created and have led the Hoops for Hunger event which is a component of the MMWHD campaign. The Hoops for Hunger effort has been very successful in drawing kids, teens and young adults for a day of fun while bringing awareness to the plight of others and generating funds in support of the MMWHD. Conversations w/Ed

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