97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell shares the latest local headlines on Tuesday, July 7 while filling in for Andrew Stuckey. Gov. Josh Stein signs North Carolina’s newest budget into effect, enacting significant pay raises for public school teachers and prison staffers as part of the first full budget package in nearly three years. Neighborhoods that took on water during Tropical Storm Chantal’s floods one year ago and still finding their way back to stability, with recovery taking a different path for each affected resident. U.S. Rep. Valerie Foushee honors the late Jamezetta Bedford on the House floor and new Carolina Athletics Director Steve Newmark shares a letter with Tar Heel fans.

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