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Over the past 32 weeks, Civitas has spotlighted one bill from the General Assembly each week as its “Bad Bill of the Week.” Beginning Monday, you will get to decide which one of those bills will be crowned the “Bad Bill of the Year.” We’re going to be holding an NCAA Tournament-style bracket to whittle down the 32 bad bills to the one truly worst bill of the session. Check out the full bracket here. Log on every Monday to cast your vote and check out the winners from the previous week.

Tuesday’s election returned control of both state legislative chambers to Democrats, but House Co-Speaker Richard Morgan says the co-speakership concept is still alive. Despite Republican losses in the North Carolina General Assembly, Morgan said the GOP has made hefty gains by re-electing President Bush and electing Congressman Richard Burr to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. John Edwards. Burr’s election gives the state two Republican senators. Morgan takes no blame for legislative losses. He said he worked very hard to elect Republicans across the state. In addition to campaigning for Republicans, Morgan said he donated more than $600,000...