One of the most persistent perceptions about The News & Observer is that news coverage is linked to editorial policy.

Yikes. When will The N&O stop picking at the same-sex marriage issue?

One of the most frequent criticisms The News & Observer gets from readers these days is not about its news coverage at all, but about the comics.

Shavlik Randolph may be glad to know that there are lots of folks out there who care dearly about him, even if The News & Observer does not.

Football bowls are in the news this week. So are the polls behind the bowls.

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 & Observer had good coverage of Southeast Raleigh in Wednesday's paper.

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.

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.