This should come as no surprise, but ski conditions throughout the
Southeast are the best they've been this year. The recent cold has
given the region's ski areas the best snowmaking opportunity of the
2008-09 season. So good, that the following areas are all completely
open: Appalachian, Cataloochee, Sapphire Valley, Sugar Mountain, Bryce, Massanutten, Homestead, Wintergreen — even tiny Cloudmont in Alabama, with it's two, thousand-foot-long slopes and 150-foot vertical, is operating at 100 percent.

It's unfair to presume that the Wake County school board knew all about the cluster of refugees in an apartment complex in North Raleigh and decided it would include the area in a proposed reassignment any way.