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Sunday papers: Dell, taxes and a nice guy

For those of you who (like me) spent more time outside this weekend than in front of your computer, here's some of what the News & Record served up:

• My colleague Richard Barron asks "The Triad's allure: Have we lost it?" As anyone who was awake last week knows, Dell announced it would close its Forsyth County manufacturing plant. Local leaders spend much of the article saying, in effect, it's not us, it's them - we're still desirable even after being dumped. Dell just wasn't mature enough to appreciate us and really has to spend some time finding itself...now hand us the Ben and Jerry's! Click here for the whole story.
   
• Insanity is famously defined as doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. I'm not really sure why that comes to mind. At any rate, state leaders say that despite the implosion of the Dell deal, they will continue to aggressively recruit "big fish" to North Carolina. Click here for the whole story.
   
• Remember tax reform? Lawmakers say they'll get cracking on Nov. 3. Click here for the whole story.
   
• When I knew him, Jim Turner was chairman of the Guilford County Board of Elections and super-nice guy - courteous and fair almost to a fault. It turns out, I'm not the only one who thought so. Mr. Turner, a former state senator, passed away last week after battling cancer. Click here for Lorraine Ahearn's remembrance.