* Mark Binker culls the best quotes from a legislative debate over officially designating the state's potato festival.
* WUNC's Laura Leslie recalls a time when Sen. Vern Malone rescued another legislator from an interview.
* Paul Woolverton writes that the odds are stacked against a new video poker bill, with legislative leaders in both chambers against it.
* An Asheville Citizen-Times columnist and liberal blogger AshVegas spar over the definition of pork in Rep. Heath Shuler's earmarks.




Thanks Kay Hagan and your racist husband
http://greensboro.rhinotimes.com/Articles-i-2009-04-16-193985.112113_Hagan_Suing_Water_Authority.html