* Alt-weekly writer Bob Geary says U.S. Sen. Richard Burr's campaign skills are "fair-to-middling," Attorney General Roy Cooper's "unproven."
* N.C. House narrowly approves second reading of bill to allow comprehensive sex education in high schools, with some amendments.
* Gov. Beverly Perdue appoints Sherry Dew Tyler, law partner of state Sen. R.C. Soles, to District Court in Eastern Carolina.
* U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan sponsors a bill that would require funding of veterans hospitals on a two-year cycle to reduce financial uncertainty.



