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Connie Walker, a longtime public radio leader and general manager of North Carolina Public Radio-¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ who started her broadcasting career in her home state of Wisconsin, died on May 19 in Durham, North Carolina. She was 59.

July was an anxious month for many state-funded (or partially state-funded) agencies, as leaders in the Legislature hashed out a final budget. That was…