In today’s Carolina Journal exclusive, David Bass focuses on the state auditor’s report about political activity within the lieutenant governor’s office and the state treasurer’s office. Auditor Les Merritt found that his two fellow Council of State members ? Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore ? both used “government resources to further their campaigns for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.”

Meanwhile, John Hood discusses in his Daily Journal the latest bad mass transit idea to come down the pike in North Carolina.