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Pat Riviere-Seel, whose volume of poetry entitled "The Serial Killer's Daughter" was reviewed here recently, is one of four poets featured on the cover of the current issue of Verve, a western North Carolina magazine for women.

Ms. Riviere-Seel is also the author of No Turning Back Now, part of the New Women's Voices Series from Finishing Line Press.

Gently ridiculed as "Earth shattering news" at a nearby site which has more understanding of these issues than we, Clay Aiken has come out of the so-called "closet."

We mention it because he is a son of North Carolina Southern Baptist nurture and enjoys the ongoing support of nearby Leesville Baptist Church.

Some Alaskans are unhappy over the McCain campaign's decision to hide Gov. Sarah Palin and her family behind campaign spokesman Ed O'Callaghan in what has been dubbed "the abdication of Sarah Palin."

"When did the McCain campaign take over the governor's office?" asked the Anchorage Daily News in a recent editorial.