The bowls, the polls and sportswriters
Football bowls are in the news this week. So are the polls behind the bowls.
International news: Tastier spinach
Readers, do we really care about Ukraine? In every issue since Nov. 21, The News & Observer has run at least one story about the presidential election in that country and the subsequent protests over election fraud.
The news from Southeast Raleigh
The News & Observer had good coverage of Southeast Raleigh in Wednesday's paper.
'Merry Christmas': A controversial ad
Merry Christmas. Does that greeting of the season offend you? With an accompanying message, it did mightily rile a number of our readers who found offense in a full-page ad that ran in the Nov. 24 N&O.
Your turn: Readers gain an advocate
The News & Observer is not perfect. You already knew that? So did I, a veteran of the newspaper these 27 years. But that message of fallibility in newspaperland was hammered home to me recently in meetings with two sets of readers.
