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three_mugs.doc

Some followups and quick thoughts ...

A week ago, we ran an exclusive about Wake Forest selling the naming rights to Groves Stadium to BB&T. The reader comments are very interesting and more extensive than for many stories. Two most prevalent threads are 1) that WFU sports may have become a bit flashy for its own good and 2) that BB&T still isn’t considered a hometown company by many people in Winston-Salem. Both are good points of discussion. We do a lot of these reader reactions, and sometimes they click and sometimes they don’t. When they do, it’s an impressive conversation. As it is here.

Several of us had a good chuckle recently with Scott Sexton’s column on the sketch artist who drew the picture of the person of interest in the killing of Jonesville police office Gregory Martin. The sketch looks a fair bit like Adam Lane, the Jonesville trucker charged with murder and assault. And there’s a fair resemblance to Scott as well. The above file has all three mugs side by each.

I was a little bothered this morning by the story we had of the reported rape and assault on the woman in West Virginia. Generally we don’t identify rape victims, but in this case the Associated Press named her, because that was her wish and that of her mother. This is the old classic of just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should.