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EDITORIAL: Tell Them to Keep Short Session Short

If recent years' experience is any guide, the "short session" of the North Carolina General Assembly that began Tuesday won't be short. Time was when our legislature met only in odd-numbered years and got all its business done then. But in the early 1970s, the lawmakers started adding "short" even-numbered sessions for the sole purpose of taking stock of the fiscal situation and fine-tuning the budget.

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