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You ever get the feeling that you're writing and reading about the same thing over and over and over...

In case you missed prior links from yours truly:

• A Sunday story from me rounding up the rumblings calling for Speaker Jim Black to step aside.
  
• A story from Saturday on Rep. Pricey Harrison calling for Black to step aside.
  
• Also in that vein, I chat with Hugh Holliman re: Black.

Items of interest on Black from around the neighborhood and around state:

• In case you wanted a second source, Charlotte's Mark Johns write about Pricey Harrison and Black.
  
• Ed Cone asks "How is it that Pricey Harrison, a freshman rep from Greensboro, is the second Democratic legislator to call for Jim Black to step aside?"
  
• The W-S Journal's Paul O'Connor plays guess the next Speaker.
  
• N+R Editorial Board member Doug Clark gets in on the act: "It's going to take a little longer, but Jim Black will resign as speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives."
  
• I'm a little late in posting a link to this, but here are the Green Dog's take on Jim Black.

Oh, and just in case you thought we had all figured out how the money from North Carolina's new state lottery was going to be spent, this story from Asheville’s Kerra Bolton says think again. And the N+O's Jim Nesbitt writes about legislators becoming stone cold lottery revenue junkies.

There, that ought to be more than enough to chew up your lunch hour.