| A few thick slices
The Spokesman-Review has continued posting letters to Ask The Editors, the most recent one being a Q&A about news negativity. A reader wanted to see more positive coverage about teachers, to which senior editor Carla Savalli highlighted recent positive coverage such as the outdoor fitness program at Cheney High School and the Milken educator's award going to Rogers High School teacher Erin Jones. "Those are frustrating questions to answer," Savalli said at the meeting, emphasizing that news coverage cannot be all positive or all negative, but also that different readers have relatively different reactions to positive and negative news. Speaking of which, there's a story online involving the lost dog (now found). Editors were thinking, half-jokingly, maybe readers are simply paying more attention to or reading more negative stories.
Chris Rose: Debate snub has him singing the Oxford blues
When I'm not tuned into the more compelling contest of who will win the Super Bowl this year, I occasionally dial into the presidential race, generally to recoil in horror at the spectacle of it all. It's freakish almost, given the broad palette of players and personalities still in the race, that the most entertaining -- and frightening -- character currently in this drama is not one of the candidates, but a spouse who also happens to be a former president. Bill Clinton looks so wild-eyed, ticked off and sleep-deprived on the campaign trail -- he fell asleep at the head table at a Martin Luther King tribute Monday -- that he seems to be putting his own legacy on the line in a bloody battle to put his wife into the White House. Even Ted Kennedy told him to shut up.
Towns rethink board meeting security
Charlie Coleman routinely attend that city's board sessions. In Bartlett, all of the police hierarchy -- Chief Gary Rikard, Assistant Chief Glen Williamson and the department's three inspectors -- attend the meeting in uniform, providing a significant police presence at that city's bimonthly meetings. Part of the latest security evaluation includes whether the brass should position themselves in different areas of the chamber. Germantown Police Chief Richard Hall used to sit on one of the first two rows during meetings but has now moved to the dais so he can look out over the crowd. The city added two officers at Monday night's meeting due to the Kirkwood incident. "People's emotions take over and you never know what can happen," Lawton said. There have been times when elected officials, even in the quiet suburbs, faced matters that stirred a crowd to the point that leaders wanted more protection or crowd control.
January 2004 - December 2004
Howard Dean's position on abortion, he argues, makes it obvious why Catholics should support someone else
Liars! Liars! Green pants on fire!: Alan Caruba has had it up to here when it comes to the press, some scientists and the environmentalist movement over the issue of global warming and predictions about the future
They say Trevor made a mockery of MLK Day: Every year at Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska a student is picked to win the Distinguished African American Student Award. David M. Huntwork wonders why it's wrong to award a white student who happens to be a native of Africa
Homage to the Count: P. David Hornik has been listening to the great William "Count" Basie for decades but it was only recently that it struck him why the jazzman was one of the greatest ever in his field
Privatize the space program: Rather than spend hundreds of billions of dollars putting humans on Mars, writes Robert Garmong, George W.
Boulder: Impeach Bush?
Rising crime, growing traffic congestion, and overall, a diminishing quality of life in Boulder. Crimes of rape and assault go unsolved. High paying jobs are going away. And Instead of focusing on Boulder issues, the council wastes time and money on meaningless gestures. To what point? So they can encourage even more companies to leave Boulder? .
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