The Winston-Salem Journal editorializes on Fibrowatt’s failed bid to build a chicken s**t plant in Surry County:

In two editorials on this page in 2008, we supported the plans of Fibrowatt, a Pennsylvania company, to build a plant in Northwest North Carolina. We liked the potential for economic development, and that the plant would produce an alternative form of energy — electricity from chicken litter, a mix of chicken manure and wood shavings from chicken houses. But we also said that the project would demand a careful eye on environmental safeguards. Several citizens and community groups, including the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, supplied that scrutiny.

Now the county’s stuck with a $2 million tract of land. Meanwhile, the N&R says Sen. Kay Hagan is “on the seat” as a vote on requiring states to allow public employees to collectively bargain comes up —- sometime.

The N&R highlights Hagan’s relationship with High Point Mayor Becky Smothers, who says Hagan’s relationship with Dingy Harry “isn’t my problem.” Yeah, but it’s our problem.

That said, Hagan insists she will not vote for Reid’s bill.