We’ll talk to Dan Shafer of The Recombobulation Area about the new school year and how a new state budget isn’t making life any easier for struggling school districts who will probably be setting another record for referendum requests to fill in the gaps from lazy legislators. And we’ll start a new weekly visit with Courier Newsroom’s Cam Stevenson, author of Below the Beltway, a daily newsletter about his new gig reporting from Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

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