As Greensboring.com points out, securelicense.org has targeted North Carolina with a billboard campaign to keep illegal aliens from acquiring a driver's license.  And while I agree with Beth that the group's first billboard smacks of race baiting, Taft Wireback's reporting in this morning's N&R bolsters securelicense.com's core message:  Even in the wake of 9/11, it is far too easy for foreign nationals to get and keep a North Carolina driver's license.

As Wireback reveals, the lives of several Triad women would not have been ruined by alleged serial rapist Gilbarto Hernadez if only our various state and federal agencies knew how to effectively talk to each other.

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Even with loss, Whirlies win.  N&R reporter Robert Bell stitches together a fine tribute to the '05 Grimsley football team. 

Coming from a single high school county in Kentucky (LaRue), I grew up watching my entire community form car caravans filled with hopeful fans travelling to far-flung venues in support of their school's atheletes and - believe it or not - musicians.  That same one-school mentality unexpectantly (to me) played out yesterday as it seemed the whole of Greensboro was rooting for Grimsley's 100 year-old football program. 

Typical of this community-wide support came from long time friend, and die-hard Page H.S. alum, Mebane Ham when she called shortly before we left for Raleigh yesterday and said, "I never thought I'd say this - but Go Whirlies."  Believe me, its powerful stuff that can transform even a Page Pirate into a Grimsley Whirlie fan - even if it was just for a day.

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Additional Robert Lan... er... Grimsley team coverage by the N&R here and here.  Greenville's Daily Reflector's coverage here and here, and a photo slideshow here.

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