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Ken and I held a brief meeting this morning to set tomorrow's editorial lineup.

First will be Allen's piece about Darfur, discussed on yesterday's post. Ken will write a secondary edit about this week's heat wave.

I'll start working on a Sunday piece about Stanley Battle's agenda at N.C. A&T. We interviewed Battle recently and will print excerpts of that interview on our Ideas front Sunday. I've also done a video interview with the new chancellor, which will be up on our Web site later this week.

You might wonder what happens to some of the editorials mentioned on this blog that you haven't seen in print. We like to squirrel away some editorial acorns that we can pull out in lean times. We'll have a little less time for writing starting next week when we kick off a series of editorial board interviews with City Council candidates. So far we've scheduled two interviews a day every day, except Fridays, for three weeks. And that's only getting the candidates involved in primary elections.

If you have questions you think we should ask as campaign season heats up, please let us know.