Quick Read

Simone Sebastian provided another exquisite inaugural feature, continuing the Dispatch’s noteworthy coverage of the impending inauguration. Unfortunately, Sebastian’s masterwork was offset by Randy Ludlow’s banner lead about prisoner’s families, who attempt to sneak drugs into the prisons (you mean degenerate people come from degenerate families? I am shocked)…

Tim May’s column on the OSU wide receiving corps seeking a new voice, given the departure of another pair of potential draft picks, was the highlight in an otherwise dull sports section… The column on Manny Malhotra was well written, but was less a feature, than it was a necessitation of his statistics… And Bob Hunter’s column made me want to run through a glass window… His entire premise was that Jim Tressel isn’t perfect and given recent high profile losses, changes are necessary… YOU THINK?

Metro and State ran an outstanding piece on the opening on another expansion of OSU’s medical center (which should have run front page, considering what the university means to this city)… Sadly, their lead was a Hunter clone, with a headline that screamed “Death Days For Retail” (Again, thank you for telling us what we already know)…

Life and Arts had a trio of great features on art exhibits which are opening, notably the exhibition at the King Center Arts Complex… And Joe Hallet typed a beautiful column on his personal memories of retiring Senator George Voinovich…