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Where was this judge when Marion Jones needed him? Or any other athlete banned for drug use?

From AP: "The court finds the harm to Mr. Mayfield significantly outweighs any harm to NASCAR," U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen said.

 Jeremy Mayfield is free to get back on the track, although the judge generously will allow NASCAR to conduct further tests to determine whether Mayfield has been "a meth-head or not."

I thought they already had done that.

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PART adds leisure travel to its main course of commuter services with a daily run to the zoo.

Sounds like an entirely new direction. Instead of taking traffic off the roads, it's going to drum up traffic for the zoo.

That's a fine thing if the purpose is indeed to bring more visitors to the zoo, which can use the revenue. So is PART, whose operations are already heavily subsidized, subsidizing the zoo?

It is likely to draw folks who otherwise would not or could not drive themselves to the outstanding animal-viewing facility outside Asheboro.

I wonder what might happen to riders who miss the 4 p.m. return bus. It's a long trek home.

Next question: Where else can PART carry Triad riders to help out the state's travel and tourism industry?

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Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, got a "$3.5 billion sweetener" to vote for the porked-up energy bill last week, the Washington Times reports. What the heck did North Carolina's reps get?