Today is not the first time Bill Clinton has come to North Carolina.

Dome researcher Becky Ogburn has compiled this quick list of other visits by the former president:

Sept. 5, 2007: Appears at a fund-raiser for Hillary in Charlotte at the City Club.

Dec. 6, 2002: Appears at fund-raisers in Raleigh in support of church efforts to replace housing destroyed during Hurricane Floyd.

Sept. 20, 1999: Visits Tarboro and tours the area hit hard by Hurricane Floyd.

July 30, 1998: Visits Western North Carolina, designating the New River an American Heritage River. Campaigns for Democratic Senate candidate John Edwards at the Kerr Scott Building on the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.

March 13, 1997: Becomes the first president to address the N.C. General Assembly while in office.

Sept. 14, 1996: Makes a brief stop in Raleigh after viewing Hurricane Fran damage from a helicopter.

Oct. 12, 1993: Receives an honorary law degree at UNC-Chapel Hill's 200th birthday bash at Kenan Stadium.

Oct. 26, 1992: Cmes through the Triangle on bus tour, stops in Kinston, at N.C. Central in Durham and the state capitol.

Oct. 10, 1992: Holds a get-out-the-vote rally at Marshall Park in Charlotte.

Oct. 4, 1992: Campaigns at Grainger Stadium in Kinston. Speaks to an invitation-only audience in Stewart Theater at N.C. State. Gives a speech to 9,000 people in Reynolds Coliseum.

Sept. 1, 1992: Campaigns in Greensboro.

April 30, 1992: Campaigns with Hillary, participating in a video teleconference for public school teachers, university students and faculty and business executives at the School of Education at UNC-Chapel Hill. 

A proposal by U.S. Sen. Richard Burr to declare part of the New River scenic has run into trouble.

Virginia officials contend that a bill to add a 31-mile stretch to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act could interfere with a proposed state prison, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.

And U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, a Virginia Democrat, argues it could undermine efforts by Independence, Va., and Sparta, N.C., to draw drinking water from the river.

Burr said he didn't contact Virginia officials about his bill beforehand.

"The only check I did in Virginia was to see if this was beneficial to the New River to have this designation," he said.