Here is another installment of letters on the health-care reform debate. The first one is pretty funny, but Mr. Koch already has had a letter in the past 30 days, so that disqualifies this one from publication.

Our Nov. 16 story "Winds of patriotism renewed" brought quite a response from readers. We've run several letters this week, and more will appear on Sunday Forum, Page 17A, this Sunday. Included in these 20 online-only letters and also in Sunday Forum is a letter from Ronnie Chapman, right, the gentleman who was featured on the front page last Sunday and who has been the object of some criticism since.

Every Monday in October, TriangleMom2Mom.com, The N&O's Web site for moms, is featuring local politically active moms who are supporting either McCain or Obama for president. The first mom, Katy Benningfield, is featured today. Benningfield, the mom of a three-year-old boy, is an active blogger and conservative.

Read more about Katy by clicking here. 

Two General Assembly candidates, Democrat Paul Luebke and Libertarian Sean Haugh, face off at 6 tonight at the Southwest Branch Library, 3605 Shannon Road. The public is invited.

Haugh and Luebke are rivals for the House District 30 seat, which represents a wedge of Durham County extending from Walltown west to the Orange County line and from Little River Road south to U.S. 15-501.

Abby Alger, a 20-year-old rising senior at Duke, has a simple political philosophy. She believes there are plenty of people her age with conservative beliefs. They're Republicans, she says. They just don't know it yet.

That's the idea behind her new blog, which she created in an attempt to create political conversation among college-age people perhaps put off by the traditional Republican talking points.

Read more here.