Reading between the lines

[The quote:“These people are going to try to make you feel ashamed.They’re going to try to make you feel ashamed at every step. I’m not ashamed to be a conservative, Christian man. In Wake County they’ve had everybody and their brother trying to make me feel ashamed, whether they’ve got Bill Clinton chiming in or Stephen Colbert putting me on Comedy Central; they think it’s a joke. Or they’ve got Governor Perdue. Everybody you could possibly think of. Your NAACP…. Come to my meeting with the NAACP and the rest of them, and we’ll get you arrested, too.” — Republican candidate
for NC Superintendent of Public Instruction John Tedesco, who faces a runoff on Tuesday, July 17. Page 10

[Blog post:Forsyth County political consultant Chris Church obtains patient info from his former client, Dr. Bruce Peller, and is ordered by a judge to destroy the files. Read it at yesweeklyblog.blogspot.com.

[The tribute:Mark Burger will miss Ernest Borgnine. Page 41

[The revelation:The new Spider-Man movie is completely unnecessary.Page 45

[The endorsement:Elsewhere is something else. Page 40

[The debut:New intern and gymnastics coach Karen Phillips pens her first staff column… about gymnastics. Page 17

[The edge:We’re giving the edge to High Point this week, where unlike in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, city leaders are not wringing their hands about teenagers like in some B movie from the 1950s. Page 17

[The shot:The Greensboro Community Swim Association held its annual city meet, featuring swimmers age 4-19, for the first time at the Greensboro Aquatic Center last week. Page 27