Bill Clinton is coming back.

The former president will stump for his wife's presidential campaign in North Carolina on Friday, holding "Solutions for America" events in Roanoke Rapids and Rocky Mount.

The latter event will be at 9 p.m. at N.C. Wesleyan College.

On Saturday, he'll travel to Greenville, Wilson, Goldsboro, Kinston, New Bern and Jacksonville.

The Wilson event will be at 11:30 a.m. at Barton College. 

Further details on the trip are not yet available. 

All events are free and open to the public. 

The Golden LEAF Foundation has plans for a $3.6 million building.

In November, the economic-development nonprofit bought four acres off Highway 64 in Rocky Mount for $1.1 million. Since then, it's held meetings in a small cabin on the site and allowed community groups to use it several times a week.

In June, the nonprofit's board of directors signed off on plans for a 10,000-square-foot building by Rocky Mount architectural firm Oakley Collier & Associates. The preliminary estimate is $2.5 million.

"We have not signed off on the final budget," said president Valeria Lee.

The nonprofit, which awards grants from the state's tobacco settlement, currently rents a 4,465-square-foot building in downtown Rocky Mount for $5,911 a month. At the end of June, its endowment was around $700 million.

Lee said it was planning to "really sink its roots" into Rocky Mount.

Some say the attorney general from Rocky Mount might make a good Senate candidate.

No, not Roy Cooper. Not even North Carolina.

The long-serving attorney general of Georgia, Thurbert Baker, has been in the news as a possible senatorial candidate there in 2008 or gubernatorial candidate in 2010.

According to the Carolina Alumni Review, Baker won't rule out either:

"I can't stop people from talking," he said. "We'll see what happens down the road."

Meantime, Cooper once again said today that he's not interested in running against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, no matter what pollsters and Washington-based reporters say.

"I want to be attorney general," he said.

The session isn't over yet, but candidates are already gearing up.

Former Nash County commissioner Randy Stewart sent Dome a press release this weekend announcing that he will run for the House in District 25.

That seat is currently held by Rep. Bill Daughtridge, a Rocky Mount Republican who is running for state treasurer.

Stewart, a Democrat, was a three-term county commissioner and works as a physical therapist.

His father, C.P., served in the state House in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Stewart considered running for the seat in 2002, when Daughtridge was first elected.