*The High Point Enterprise endorses Guilford County’s proposed sales-tax hike; local conservatives will no doubt let county commissioners hear it when the issue is debated at Thursday night’s meeting;

*Guarino hangs out with Rep. Virginia Foxx and says she’s “a very active, energetic woman with an engaging mind and personality.”

*The Winston-Salem Journal reports attendance numbers at the Dash’s new taxpayer-funded downtown stadium mean “mean the team should have no trouble paying back its debts to both banks and the city of Winston-Salem.”

*Yesterday’s Journal editorial says tax reform is badly needed, especially if Gov. Bev Perdue does not support extension of the state’s temporary 1-cent sales tax increase.

*Asheboro’s ABC board protests embattled Greensboro ABC general manager Katie Alley’s election as president-elect of the N.C. Association of ABC Boards.