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With the honorables leaving town, here’s what other bloggers and old media types like myself were writing: (Registration required on some of these)

• From Charlotte: Meet the new Speaker same as the old Speaker?
• Freedom Newspaper’s Barry Smith was a happy man watching the gavel fall.
• The Asheville Citizen Times’ Kerra Bolton took a clear-eyed look at the recently-passed lobbying reform bill.
• The N+O’s Rob Christensen lays down his own take on ethics reform.
• And speaking of ethics reform, Charlotte’s Jack Betts has some thoughts.
• TarGator at BlueNC delivers a requiem for Richard Morgan.
• The Winston-Salem Journa’s David Ingramdelivers a wrap up of what was touched and untouched during the short session.
• John Hood volunteers his list of stuff the honorables didn’t do and should have.
• Hog wash. Wilmington’s Mark Schreiner talks about the hog waste bills left on the table.
• Scott Mooneyham takes the pulse of the voters following session.