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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. 

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Gary Robertson of the AP and Bruce Ferrell of WPTF News and the NC News Network join host Barlow Herget to discuss some of the week's big stories.  The Senate's $20.1 billion budget bill differs from House's slightly larger budget with less money for education.  It cuts spending on such programs as the Teaching Fellows and the Rural Center and more in the details.  Governor Perdue doesn't veto the controversial annexation bill for cities and early in the presidential campaign, the Obama and Romney groups already have spent $10 million on ads.