*Ah darn it, the bad economy has derailed Gov. Perdue’s election campaign endowment. Never mind the fact that the economy had already tanked by the time the governor took office. But —as we’ve painfully watched over the last four years — a down economy never stops liberals;

*N&R has a puff piece on Sen. Kay Hagan’s ‘centrism.’ Commander Hood makes an appearance:

“There just hasn’t been any high-profile cause that she’s taken up at all,” said John Hood , president of the conservative John Locke Foundation.

He points to polls that show voters are split on their impression of Hagan’s performance, with large chunks having no opinion at all.

“In a way, it does kind of remind me of Richard Burr’s first term,” Hood said, speaking of the Republican U.S. senator form North Carolina.

Like Hagan, Burr did not find his way into the national spotlight even though he came to the Senate from the U.S. House.

In fact, Burr and Hagan have similar job-approval ratings, most likely split more along partisan lines than any thorough evaluation of their work.

Republicans, Hood said, will dismiss Hagan because she’s a Democrat, not because of anything that she has done.

“She’s not been in office very long, and virtually nothing Congress has done has made people very happy,” he said.

*Guilford County Commission Chairman Skip Alston says the county’s redistricting plan is “retrogressive” and will be challenged in court;

*The Winston-Salem Journal informs me I’ve reached my limit of 10 free monthly articles. If I want more, I have to purchase unlimited digital access. Hey, they have the right to sell the product, but as part of the 99 percent, I have the right not to buy;

The N&R (unposted)) reviews UNC professor William Rohe’s book on RTP:

The park, though, is beginning to show its age. It was designed in the 1950s, and planners took the idea of “park” to heart. The research campuses are self-contained in a bucolic setting, Rohe notes.

“More recent trends, at least in selected knowledge-based businesses, have shifted toward encouraging more interaction and collaboration among employees of different companies, and providing them with dense, diverse, and vibrant environments in which to both work and live.”

The N&O editorializes on RTP, saying the park needs a new blueprint.