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Entries for December, 2007 in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Some readers have noticed our Ranging Reporters, our new effort to take the fullest advantage of what technology allows us to do. In many ways, Ranging Reporters are a throwback. The idea is as old as reporting: Go where the people ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We were pleased this week to learn the Advocate's Web site is a finalist for a Newspaper Association of America's Digital Edge Award. As I mentioned in a previous post, we have all of you to thank for the national attention ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
The big turnout for the Howell Middle School Christmas pageant impressed me Tuesday night at the Welder Center. Family members packed every one of the 482 seats in the hall. Such events remind me a lot of good things happen ...
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The Mother of all acting performances
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
You can't exactly get stage-fright when you don't have to walk, talk or think. Nonetheless, I was a bit tense before I took my star turn as Mother Ginger in the Victoria Ballet Theatre's performance of "The Nutcracker." Somehow, I was ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
You never know how music will move you. When Conspirare closed Wednesday night's "Christmas at the Carillon" with "I Could Have Danced All Night," I thought of my father. "My Fair Lady" is his favorite musical. As a kid, I ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We have so many active bloggers on the site that it's difficult to find all of the content. Some of you suggested an A to Z directory of bloggers. Many thanks to Shawn in IT for making this happen. I ...
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I hope you share your photos of Victoria's parade
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
I had no idea the Holiday Parade was so big and so well-attended. My family and I enjoyed tremendously our first taste of December in Victoria. I expected the size of the parade and the crowd to be similar to ...