Time Warner Cable fail yesterday –the whole bundle –Internet, phone, cable –so here’s catching up:
*N&R’s Eddie Wooten rounds up reaction from local runners to the Boston Marathon bombings; Winston-Salem runner describes his experience;
*N&R’s Amanda Lehmert gives readers a primer on Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins’ bankruptcy filing;
*The Winston-Salem Journal says the WSFCS board’s vote to spike the ‘Systems Thinking’ curriculum was ‘based on paranoia’; yours truly covered the issue for Carolina Journal;
*High Point Enterprise reports the City Council gave preliminary approval to a 79-acre industrial park east of Sandy Ridge Road;
*Rep. Mel Watt says Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx would be “terrific” for any federal government post, but did not specifically address rumors that Foxx was up Secretary of Transportation (via Carolina Plott Hound);
*The N&R says rumors –which the paper dutifully reported –that Sen. Trudy Wade would push legislation to reopen Greensboro’s White Street landfill are fanned by the reality of the General Assembly’s centralized power grab;
*Burlington Times-News reporter Mike Wilder loses his six-week battle with cancer;
*The Rhino’s John Hammer reports some real legislating going on down in Raleigh –Rep. Jon Hardister’s bill to allow fans attending baseball games to buy beer from their seats.
