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So, Gov. Bev Perdue rolled out her budget today and it got a fair amount of attention from us scruffy media types.

Click here to read the whole thing for yourself. Fair warning: the books measure roughly a foot high when stacked on my desk, so I'm guessing the PDFs are pretty big.

For those who want some of the early media coverage:

• * Update: Legislative leaders didn't give Perdue's budget the dreaded "dead on arrival" stamp, which means she did better her first time out than former Gov. Mike Easley did on his last.

• * The AP's Gary Robertson takes you through the basics.

• * One of my stories for tomorrow looks at some of the parochial effects of the budget, including the possibility a local prison could close.

• * My colleague Sonja Elmquist writes about one of the far flung effects of the current budget crisis.

• * The N+O's budget-paloza.

• * News 14 rocks some video.