Before the Press Rolls

With word coming this week about environmental issues at the proposed site for a downtown hotel, we’ve been talking quite a bit as an editorial board about our support for the project. As anyone who reads our editorial page knows, we’ve been supportive of the concept of downtown development and beli

I want to say thanks to the students in Jayne Johnson’s class at Cravens Elementary School for the wonderful thank you letters they sent to me today. It was a nice surprise and really made my day. I visited the class last month as part of a community reading day and shared a book about [...]

Steve Vied’s front page article in the Wednesday, Feb. 17 Messenger-Inquirer about the proposed committee to oversee planning and construction of the downtown convention center has generated several interesting comments from readers on our Web site. Virtually all are against the idea in some manner,

I’ve received several calls the last couple of days from readers expressing their displeasure over the photo of Lady Gaga at the Grammy Awards that we published on the front page of Monday’s Messenger-Inquirer. There’s no question that the photo is bizarre, and Lady Gaga’s outfit could certainly use

I’m always open to feedback about what we do here at the newspaper, but one of the most frustrating things I’ve had to do as editor is explain to people why we changed the crossword puzzle last year. We actually had no choice. For years, we purchased the crossword puzzle from Tribune Media Services,

Today’s edition of the Messenger-Inquirer marked the return of four sections on Mondays and Tuesdays. Last year, we decided to go to a two-section paper on Monday and Tuesday in an effort to better control newsprint costs on the days of the week when advertising is generally at its lowest. The reali