Who says editorial writers are just a few steps behind the dodo bird on their way to extinction?
(Note to self: Bad idea to use “dodo” and “editorial writers” in the same sentence.)
For most journalists – and editorial writers in particular – there is nothing worse than being irrelevant. You know the old saying: “Love me [...]

Now that Election Day has come and gone, I thought it would be a good time to share your responses to a couple of questions I posed before voting day.
As you may recall, I expressed some naïve bewilderment over the number of cancellations we received as a result of endorsing a candidate prior to the [...]

Uh-oh. We did it again.
In this case, it refers to endorsing a candidate in the upcoming election – today incumbent John E. Sununu for the U.S. Senate seat – something newspapers have done pretty much since their inception back in the 1700s.
But a not-so-funny thing happened after we endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president last [...]

Every four years, millions of people gather around their TV sets to watch the presidential and vice presidential debates.
And every four years, the journalists ask voters if the debates helped to make up their minds on which candidate to support on Election Day.
If you believe some of the voters in focus groups organized by CNN [...]

Each week, hundreds of readers turn to our Web site to post comments in response to stories, letters to the editor and other items. So we thought we would try something different today by sharing some of those comments from the more popular online postings with readers of the newspaper.
Among the stories to attract a [...]

By now, most of you have figured out that I take great pleasure in reaching out to readers for their advice in making decisions that affect the content of our daily Opinion pages.
That should come as no surprise, since I remember making the point in my introductory column nearly one year ago that I considered [...]

Is a community newspaper obligated to allocate space on its Opinion pages to candidates for state and federal office so they can write op-ed pieces on the topics of their choice?
What about their surrogates?
These are among the issues I have been fretting over as we near the stretch run – 93 days and counting [...]

So much for building consensus.
Or, to put it another way, if I were the foreman of a jury, we would be hopelessly deadlocked.
That pretty much describes my efforts these past few weeks to develop a better way to handle same-name letter writers.
Two weeks ago, as you may recall, I related a telephone conversation I [...]

After more than 30 years in this business, I thought I had seen and heard it all.
Names and circumstances may change from time to time, but there aren’t too many complaints that get tossed my way these days that I haven’t  heard at least once before.
Until earlier this month. To make things worse, I [...]

Two weeks ago, I wrote a column/blog seeking your thoughts on whether we should have published a letter to the editor that ridiculed state Rep. Betty Hall of Brookline for advocating that Congress initiate impeachment proceedings against the president and vice president.
All told, I heard back from 16 of you, mostly through personal e-mails. A [...]