* N.C. Change to Win head Willie Carey takes exception to a Dome item, says the AFL-CIO endorsed Sen. Kay Hagan before she backed card check.

* NoMoreGillNets.org has a billboard on Interstate 40 calling lack of wildlife enforcement on gill nets "another black eye for N.C. politics."

* Rep. Pricey Harrison introduces bill that would ban N.C. power companies from buying coal obtained via mountaintop mining in other states.

* Charlotte Observer columnist Jack Betts says the smoking ban has a good chance of passing, notes Rep. Marian McLawhorn is now in favor.