1,062 channels and there’s nothing on
For those of you who didn’t rummage through the inside of today’s paper, the House did officially put out its full budget Monday . I’m told the dead trees edition got cut all to smithereens because of space issues – but y’all weren’t too worried about how the honorables want to spend $18.9 billion, right? (Click here for what’s left of the story.)The bullet points:
- The Civil Rights museum in downtown Greensboro got no funding in any current draft of the budget. So baring some change in the House budget before Thursday, it probably won’t get much of anything from the state this year. (Of course, local representatives say they’re not giving up on landing some funding for the program and wild things are known to have happen.)
- Over all, the House budget spends $88.7 million more than the Senate budget, is more generous with earmarks for state facilities, and takes some Medicaid costs off the county’s plate.
- Once the House finishes its budget this week, the House and Senate will have to negotiated a compromise budget.
Meanwhile, my colleague Michelle Jarboe writes about pending legislation that could affect how and what you pay fore cable television service. Michelle does a good job of distilling a complicated issued down to its essentials.
But can I still call it cable TV if it comes over a phone line?