When Gov. Beverly Perdue announced plans Thursday not to seek re-election, Carolina Journal jumped into action. Associate Editor David Bass offered an initial report on the news for the American Spectator. Speaking of Bass, N.C. Senate Republicans promoted his articles dealing with the recent Duke University debt reduction speech featuring Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, a Texas redistricting court decision that could affect North Carolina’s new election maps, and Republican legislative leaders’ offer to debate Perdue on her sales-tax proposal. The Senate GOP also highlighted Executive Editor Don Carrington‘s latest article on former Gov. Mike Easley conducting transactions involving hundreds of thousands of dollars while ignoring most of a $100,000 campaign fine. Carrington discussed Perdue’s election announcement with Lockwood Phillips on WTKF’s “Viewpoints Radio.” FoxNews.com promoted John Locke Foundation Senior Fellow Marc Rotterman‘s latest CJ column on the president’s State of the Union speech. The Mooresville Tribune published N.C. Education Alliance Fellow Kristen Blair‘s CJ column on public school students’ “digital dossiers.”