Quick Read

Steve Watenberg led off Saturday with an excellent snapshot of the foreclosure situation and how it could worsen this year (yes, I did say worsen). And the front page featured another notable State of the State chaser… But, the dominant section of this edition was Metro…

I said dominant, because it had the most interesting concepts… Not because the reporting was stellar… Their piece concerning campaign financial disclosure was enterprising…. Everyone knows the players in the state wide races by now, fresh reporting is the key and this piece, unlike so many other Dispatch stories, didn’t read like they cribbed from us…

Rita Price’s story on a former Afghanistan veteran now living on food stamps, was an great concept… Unfortunately, the story began groaning in the middle from the excess weight of statistics… I got bored quickly… The only statistic that stuck with me is that in 2001, 14% of city children needed food stamps… Today, its 28%… We are a poor city…

The feature on Gordon Gee endowing another OSU scholarship fund was well written, except the centerpiece of the story, the fact that OSU hasn’t seen a rise in financial aid requests, was buried three paragraphs from the bottom…

Michael Aracace’s column concerning Blue Jackets excitement was not exciting and actually read like a press release concerning recent attendance figures… Business had a solid story on DSW Owner Retail Ventures and how they are struggling…