** First, we've given the wrong titles to several folks in the news this week. Everyone needs to read the paper daily and carefully so that we are all familiar with the who's who of our coverage area. We should be familiar enough with local newsmakers so that if a title comes to the line editor or to the copy editor wrong, we at least know that it needs to be checked. But even better is for reporters not to make the errors in the first place. A story can't be considered accurate unless every detail is correct. ** We should write out North Carolina, rather than using the abbreviation N.C., when we are using the words as an adjective. "He is a North Carolina native." This is in the N&O stylebook under "North Carolina." Because we treat summaries on stories as text, rather than as headlines, we should write out North Carolina in summaries as we would in the body of a story. We can abbreviate N.C. in any headline. Sometimes, we use the abbreviation N.C. with the name of a state government agency, but if a government agency can be identified with the lowercase "state" without ambiguity or awkwardness, we should do so. Also, the North Carolina Symphony, the North Carolina Museum of Art and the North Carolina Museum of History are referred to by their full names. There are three North Carolina agencies that use State uppercase: State Board of Education, State Bureau of Investigation and State Board of Elections. We do abbreviate the N.C. in N.C. Central University and N.C. State University. This is in the N&O stylebook under "state." ** There is no such word as "publically." The word is "publicly." ** Addendum on the note about "Hispanic": "Hispanic" is not a racial or skin-color designation. Some people who are Hispanic might also claim African heritage.