"Interestingly, employment in the Greensboro/High Point area is down 5.4% from the same time last year, which is the third worst among metropolitan areas in North Carolina (only Hickory and Charlotte are worse), but Winston-Salem (also in the Triad) is down only 3.3%."

"What can we learn from this? Rex suggests that to become the nexus, story-telling may not be the key art; aggregating, summarizing and linking information in a cohesive narrative may be."

"It is fascinating to poke through history and see how often cheap and simple fixes solved problems that were routinely thought to be either unsolvable or, at best, solved by very expensive, complicated, and invasive means. Of course this is partly because a lot of people stand to profit (or at least keep their jobs) by promoting the expensive, complicated, and invasive means"

Dave Ribar takes George Will to task over Will's latest column on global warming.