• It’s official. Pat McCrory is the GOP nominee for governor.
• Conservative activists set up a super PAC to support Justice Paul Newby in his Supreme Court re-election bid.
• The Charlotte Observer questions whether the state’s runoff law should be changed.
• Bipartisanship! Mecklenburg County lawmakers join to sponsor legislation that would let county ABC stores open on Labor Day in advance of the Democratic convention.
• A Winston-Salem restaurant manager claims Democratic state Rep. Earline Parmon’s committee stiffed him on a catering bill for a campaign event.