Quick Read

After viewing this Dispatch’s excellent dissection of the stimulus, I am lost as to which category Mayor Coleman’s Columbus Commons project fits into…

The front page and Life and Arts get into the spirit of the holiday (or non-holiday, if you’re sitting home bitter and single)… Amy Saunders’ “Too Picky, Too Perfect” (front page), which discusses the value of niche dating sites, is exquisite and Joe Blundo’s review of the “Red Roses Poetry Contest” is enjoyable…

Sports leads with solid coverage of the Blue Jackets important 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings… Unfortunately, Rob Oller’s column makes me wish I could give the victory back… Steve Mason is a top five goaltender? He is better than Chris Osgood, who has two Stanley Cup rings? I like Mason also, but Oller’s column was hyperbolic and stupid…

Mike Pramik’s feature (business) on a central Ohio homeowner burned by the stimulus package was this edition’s most interesting… And the Metro section’s front page about the Franklin County Coroner was this edition’s most insipid… I understand she improved the offices services… But, when does the coroner rate front page of anything (except possibly obituaries)…