ARCADIA Results of a public opinion survey should make it easier for Arcadia school officials to begin merger talks with Vanlue School District.

N.C. volunteers work liong hours for McCain and Obama (The Fayetteville Observer)
RALEIGH For Mary Kay Hannah, the 2008 presidential election couldn t have come at a better time. Recently home from a 15-month tour in Afghanistan, the Army major had been making a 140-mile round trip from her home in Cary to Fort Bragg. But she s retiring and spending her last weeks on leave.

Rep. Mahoney’s re-election efforts “destroyed,” according to Republican polling firm (Sun-Sentinel)
Pollsters: Mahoney’s re-election try ‘destroyed’ U.S. Rep. Tim Mahoney’s re-election efforts have been “destroyed” by his recently revealed sex scandal, according to the latest survey by the Tarrance Group, a national Republican polling firm.

Nick Cohen: Let’s talk about class rather than colour (Guardian Unlimited)
Nick Cohen: You can at least give the old left credit for having an ideology that encouraged immigrants and natives to see themselves as fellow members of the working class