Because everything else pales in comparison to last night’s 31-25 Packers victory.
*Happy belated 100th birthday, Ronald Reagan. Our country was going down the crapper when you stepped in and saved it. We face the same danger today, but —I’ll be honest — I don’t know who’s going to step in and save us this time;
*The Forsyth County Board of Elections will meet in open session to discuss allegations against director Rob Coffman;
*Both the N&R and the Winston-Salem Journal stick up for municipal annexation;
*Local economic developers complain about Senate bill that would divert money from so-called economic development funds. Civitas argued back in ’09 that Golden LEAF should simply be dissolved;
*WSJ’s Travis Fain has a good budget primer:
Spending-cut promises roll easily off the tongue.
But actually eliminating more than 4,000 teaching jobs and 1,900 university jobs, increasing community-college tuition, cutting Medicaid prescription benefits and laying off officers in the Department of Corrections? That’s harder to do.
*As reported last week, Lexington leaders toured train depots —including Greensboro’s —- as they anticipate funding for a downtown depot of their very own. An NCDOT official says a shift to more travel by rail and bus “appears the trend of the future.” Oh it does, does it?
