This just in…

Dateline Raleigh:

  • State Senate leader Marc Basnight has one word for shoppers: plastics. And he wants them banned.

Dateline Kampala:

  • Any person caught using plastic bags in Uganda from early 2010 will be jailed for three years or be fined an equivalent of 1,500 dollars, press reports said Saturday, quoting government environment lawyers.

North Carolina, clearly a world leader. Third World, that is.