Newsletter
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What is your reaction to suit against DuPont?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Invista's allegations against DuPont are sure to set this community abuzz. Look for full details of the lawsuit in Thursday's Advocate. This case surely will play out for years in court. Meanwhile, we will have a lot of digging to ...
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Hey, what happened to the Bankshot court at Riverside Park?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
My family and I drove through Riverside Park today and realized the Bankshot baskets were gone. Does anybody know when they were removed or why? We played the game for the first time a couple of months ago when a ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Many thanks to Advocate reader Shawn Campbell for e-mailing us images taken from his cell phone of Tuesday's afternoon's crash on U.S. 77 South. It's an exciting new world when readers can share so quickly the photos and videos they ...
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Should suspects get their say, photo in the newspaper?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Our story Friday about the Calhoun High "gang" reflected our desire to present all sides to any story, but some readers felt we were glorifying violence in schools. In our original front-page story Sunday, we had only the school's version of the ...
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Our apologies for technical difficulties
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
The community portion of our Web site crashed this morning. I haven't heard yet what went wrong, but our technical folks were working hard to correct the problem. Fortunately, the site worked fine during the heavy load of Election Night. ...
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Election coverage: From pizza to pixels
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
If it's Election Day, then dinner must be pizza. For newsrooms across the country, pizza is regular fare for all of the troops assembled to cover the news. It's easy, quick and generally liked by everyone. Even though our dinner ...
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Check out Election Central before you cast your vote Tuesday
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
If you want to know more about what's on the ballot Tuesday, I urge you to check out Election Central. There you'll find all of the related articles published in the Advocate leading up to Tuesday's primary. Based on where ...
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Should newspapers offer election endorsements?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
When our editorial board offered its election endorsements recently, I tried to explain in a post why newspapers do this and how these positions don't affect our news coverage. I don't know, though, whether these endorsements serve their intended purpose ...
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Victoria stop reveals problems in Clinton campaign, blogger writes
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
"If Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Texas campaign continues as her Victoria rally began Wednesday, it may be a bumpy ride to the state’s March 4 primary," reporter Gabe Semenza wrote in the lead paragraph of "Hillary's pickup man." Mayhill Fowler elaborates on ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
A clever Web user found a way to post video to our Seen on the Scene section. This is a great way to share your work. You also may post reader-submitted articles and embed a YouTube video there or to ...