little bit of their lives toward King's dream each day until next year.

- Rebecca Quigley,

Higher education reporter

Still with Charlie

Charlie Maddox still wants to be mayor.

He came right and said so last week, when I walked him out to the parking lot after a Navy school meeting. He's been watching the mayor and commission meetings on TV and choking on his popcorn so bad that he wants another crack at it.

Let's keep this in perspective: the next mayoral election is 46 months away. Qualifying is 41 months away. Candidates who start running early often do well (see: Doug Lowry, who was sitting in on a hearings board meeting the second Charles Carter let it slip that he didn't want a fifth term). Or, they end up never officially running,talk about.

Maddox said he's in good health, other than an upcoming knee surgery. But he'll be 65 in four years, so if he's elected in 2010, he said he'll only serve one term.