I don't have a horse in the District Attorney discussion but I do congratulate the Ledger-Enquirer for the editorial that started it. I'm sorry that they had to put it on the front page in order to get it noticed since their editorials normally read like the output of an opinion poll. The fact is, local reporting on the vagaries of our officials is worth reading about and sells newspapers. And loses readers too I know. But if you're on the way out, you might as well go out fighting and people are talking which makes the paper relevant.
Of course papers like the Boston Globe, etc who report nationally still have a problem. If you wonder if we're seeing the end of genuine news coverage-and you would wonder if the newspapers are disappearing and you're stuck with Fox or CNN-go to http://trueslant.com/. They're starting with 65 journalists.
I've mentioned Columbus' participation in reading "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" as part of the "Big Read". If you go to the library, they'll give you a reader's guide which is a really terrific reading companion.
Speaking of the library, Tim Chitwood recently wrote about a movement to raise the price of a parking pass at our state parks. What he didn't write was that you can get a free one at your local library.
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