Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 11/21/21

 The state budget is like a buffet. Technically, you can try everything in one sitting, but you’ll regret it. In that spirit, we offer morsels from the budget that Gov. Roy Cooper signed last week. These are things that, for the most part, we haven’t already covered extensively – things beyond the headlines about pay raises, Medicaid, school construction or other big-ticket, high-profile items enumerated in the 1,400-page pair of documents that will govern state spending over the next two years.

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