The Sunday papers (and magazines and whatnot)
I put out the audio earlier, but click here for my Q+A with Gov. Easley. Commentary on the interview has come already from Doug Clark on our editorial page and James at BlueNC.
My other story this weekend is something all us scruffy media types tend to write a dozen times over: what's coming up next year during the General Assembly session. This year's story, no matter who has been writing it, pretty much focuses on the gap between what the state wants to pay for and the money it can raise.
Elsewhere in the big wide media world, the N+O's Rob Christensen demonstrates the perils of political prognostication, but goes ahead and forecasts for 2009 anyway.
Winston Salem's James Romoser explores the fact that only one NC inmate was sentenced to death in 2008.
Charlotte's Lew Powell offers his year in review, worth clicking on if only for the graphic.
And by way of confession, seeing this cover from Vanity Fair in the local Target prompted me to surf to the site for the first time in a while: 
If you go, this profile of Tina Fey is worth reading, even if it was written by Maureen Dowd.
Now, as I've said to my oldest child this morning, go play outside - it looks like a nice day out.
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