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The Weekly News Review panel of Tim Funk of the Charlotte Observer, Rick Martinez of WPTF News and host Barlow Herget look at the $2.2 billion budget bill, no compensation for eugenics victims, and a badly edited DOT letter to the General Assembly that's caused a row.  Also under review are the big utility merger and its impact on wholesale users and Southern Baptists electing their first African American convention president.