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Entries for March, 2011 in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
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What do the judges have to say?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
When you compete in Texas, you've gone up against the best. In the annual Texas Associate Press Managing Editors contest, the Victoria Advocate competed against newspapers ranging from daily circulations of 30,000 all the way up to 125,000. The only ...
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Why are mental health issues so taboo?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Our discussion leader closed our meeting Monday with a somber statistic: Twenty-four people committed suicide during the six hours we talked about media coverage of the issue. During the day, we reviewed updated recommendations for reporting on suicide and talked ...
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Will a Victoria teen make it big?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
I'm a big fan of the big voices of Joss Stone and Christina Aguilera. Your Advocate featured last fall a Victoria teen who might end up being the next Joss or Christina. I'm not the only one who thinks 17-year-old ...
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Have you heard a sermon from behind home plate?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
My kids and I had the privilege of listening to the Rev. Bill Hassel's sermon from home plate in the Riverside Park stadium. Pastor Bill, as most call him, delivered his address with the aid of a digital recorder, but ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Those of us lucky enough to be in the Welder Center in early December feel a special connection to Craig Fox and his children. Fox has been battling ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, for three years. He and ...