* N&O public editor Ted Vaden has been appointed deputy secretary of communications at the N.C. Department of Transportation.
* U.S. Sen. Richard Burr could put a hold on Fourth Circuit vacancy unless longstanding Senate "blue slip" tradition is shuttered.
* A proposed state House bill would allow mopeds and scooters to go 50 miles per hour, rather than the current 30 mph speed limit.
* How N.C.'s presidents fared in new C-SPAN poll of historians: James K. Polk, 12th; Andrew Jackson, 13th; and Andrew Johnson, 41st out of 42.
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Polk vetoed a spending bill because it had too much pork in it: Polk contended that to interpret the Spending Clause to permit such appropriations would allow "combinations of individual and local interests [that would be] strong enough to control legislation, absorb the revenues of the country, and plunge the government into a hopeless indebtedness."
Such thinking is anathema these heady neo-Keynesian pre-double-digit-inflation days.