Some residents of North Carolina may be wondering if their state's two-digit postal code (NC) actually stands for Neverending Corruption.

In the past six years, corruption convictions have produced prison sentences for North Carolina's House Speaker, its agriculture commissioner and a state representative. Last week, a federal grand jury investigating former Gov. Mike Easley, a Democrat, issued 51 indictments of Easley's top adviser. More indictments may be coming.

If the state is going to get tough on corruption and strengthen its ethics laws, the Fayetteville Observer has some advice for legislators: take a bipartisan approach. In this editorial today, the newspaper writes:

Greed and corruption are nonpartisan traits. We need a bipartisan effort to prevent politicians of any stripe from indulging in them.