Will be at Pinehurst (NC) Wine Festival Friday through Sunday

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North Carolina has been hit hard between move of textile jobs overseas and diminishing returns on tobacco. (Plus cutbacks in labor force of high tech and pharmaceuticals in Triangle Research Park due to economic slump). The state went from a large surplus budget to a deficit budget. The governor is pushing for a state lottery but that is not my recommendation for solving budget problems. I was in California which had a lottery and it just made citizens more reluctant to fund school bond issues, etc.