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Ellis Hankins, executive director of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, tells Host Barlow Herget that new annexation laws have hampered cities' ability to grow and new proposal in the current legislative short session will complicate annexation more.  The Republican controlled legislature now wants to retroactively undo legal annexations in certain cities.