The following editorial appeared in Friday's Washington Post:

Editorial:  Judge Leon Stanback presided in Superior Court in the Triangle for 20 years, gaining a reputation as a calm, reasoned force in the courtroom, not showing favor, playing things straight down the middle. Gov. Beverly Perdue doubtless had those qualities in mind when she named Stanback as district attorney in Durham during the suspension of D.A. Tracey Cline.

Editorial:  It's the Girl Scouts' 100th anniversary year, and it's also their cookie-sales season. Here's hoping the Scouts' suppliers will have to bake up record-breaking batches of Thin Mints, Samoas and (new this year) Savannah Smiles.

Editorial:  We'll take a little more of the kind of news Johnston County got last week, with an announcement that Caterpillar, the heavy equipment company that employs 2,000 workers in North Carolina, will be adding 199 jobs at its Clayton manufacturing plant.

POINT OF VIEW:  President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address that he wants to upgrade the nation's "critical infrastructure," including our "incomplete high-speed broadband network that prevents a small business owner in rural America from selling her products all over the world."

Editorial:  The cost of the program would be covered, by a tax on America's biggest banks.

Editorial:  In North Carolina, February's winds rustle the camellias and February's chill, when it comes, reminds us that winter isn't finished with us yet.

Ford:  The man in charge of trying to keep Raleigh growing in a way that makes sense, economically and environmentally - that would be the city's planning director, Mitchell Silver - has been even busier than usual.

Point of View:  All of us who attended a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina arrived on the backs of our families, taxpayers and private donors who believed in the public good of higher education and that a vibrant public university is in the self-interest of the state.

In the end it will come down to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. His senior officials will make their cases, but he alone will have to make one of the most critical decisions in Israel's history: whether to attack Iran's nuclear program.

Editorial:  Raleigh-based Progress Energy generates about a quarter of its electricity from four nuclear power plants in three states.

Editorial:  The air and water are cleaner, the streets are safer, the spouses due alimony and child support have an easier chance of getting it. And that's just for starters.