I'd like you to meet Lydia Mack, a third generation educator from Welcome, NC. Her job requires not only dedication, compassion and patience, but the ability to adapt quickly to the different needs of the dozens of elementary school students she teaches to read every year.

I'd like you to meet Lydia Mack, a third generation educator from Welcome, NC. Her job requires not only dedication, compassion and patience, but the ability to adapt quickly to the different needs of the dozens of elementary school students she teaches to read every year.

She's an innovator of the highest degree, and teachers like her all across this state are the point at which that spark of intelligence and innovation is passed from one generation to the next. So it's fitting that Cal has chosen a teacher's story as the way to introduce his Jobs Plan; because the best way to ensure that the next generation has the skills to enter the workforce tomorrow is to make sure that our teachers have the tools and support to do their jobs today.

Photos from the Winston-Salem Tax protests this afternoon.

Excerpted from Summer Lipford's online response to an article in the Winston-Salem Journal yesterday:

Contacting me 10 weeks after his funeral with a form letter of condolence does not constitute her assistance, assistance not that I asked for-- but begged for. I am not malicious, disgusting or dishonest. I had nothing to gain by telling my story. I am a mother who grieves every day for my child and prays no other mother has to walk my path, no other mother has to live with the lack of concern and disrespect shown to my son and myself by Virginia Foxx. As I have stated, none of this can change for me, but by electing Roy Carter I know it will not happen again.

This story was also the lead on WXII last night.