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We held our second election interviews today with half of the field running for three at-large seats on the Greensboro City Council: Florence Gatten, Yvonne Johnson, Sandra Anderson and Joel Landau. We'll interview the other four next week.

All gave strong performances. These won't be easy endorsements to make.

We touched on lots of sensitive issues, among them Project Homestead, Truth and Reconciliation, economic development and the Wal-Mart incentives.

But Gatten may have become most strident when we asked to take a fresh photo.

We like to update the files, we explained. That helps us avoid being in the position we were in recently when we ran a file photo of a mustachioed Police Chief David Wray, who had shaved his whiskers months ago.

Absolutely not, Gatten. said. You'll have to use the photo you've already got.

"I didn't have a mustache then," she said of her last photo session, "and I don't now."