Monthly Archives: June 2008

A bridge column too far

Billy Joel wrote a song that starts, “Don’t go changing, to try and please me.” I guess that sentiment applies to newspaper readers in many ways, at least if recent experience in any indicator. A few months ago, I wrote that we were planning to drop the comic strip “Peanuts” because its author was long dead [...]

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Carrying on

OK, it’s been a couple of rough weeks, rough enough that even my staff is taking it easy on me. Usually by now, our Web editor, Julie Wurth, would have dropped me a subtle note, something along the lines of “Your last blog was filed May 15.” Which is, by the way, when my last blog [...]

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