? Pat McCrory schedules two press events to announce his policy on offshore drilling. Beverly Perdue wades into the controversy about whether the government should take a Stanly County dam away from Alcoa and create a new public-power authority.

? The Greensboro News & Record doesn’t think much of a Republican complaint about Kay Hagan’s latest fundraising report. Congressional Quarterly thinks well of Hagan’s prospects in her challenge to Elizabeth Dole, whose support of lifting a federal moratorium on continues to make waves.