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This is a newsletter that analyzes the various issues from state and municipal governments.

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About Ben Ledbetter

Ben Ledbetter is an experienced, versatile journalist that wrote for The Sumter (S.C.) Item, The (Lexington, N.C.) Dispatch, The (Asheville, N.C.) Citizen-Times and The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate.

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