Quick Read

On Sunday, Front Page and Metro front each featured important stories… Misti Crane’s (front page) addressed pending health cuts and Molly Willow’s (metro front) addressed the recreation center closings… Unfortunately, Crane and Willow only addressed the facts and figures of these stories… The facts and figures are known and now annoy people… Where was the emotional and psychological impact of these events on communities?

The front page continued the paper’s excellent State of the State coverage and Benjamin Morrison (Insight) presented an excellent argument for the coexistence of newspapers and websites (an argument we applaud)…

Steve Wartenberg led Business with an incredible article about the practice of physician approved pill splitting… Kevin Landers complimented that work with a front page worthy analysis of how the recession is impacting child support payments and recipients…

Michael Grossberg’s column (Arts and Life) feature on Cleveland and Cincinnati scoring theatre shows ahead of or instead of Columbus was outstanding and Ken Gordon’s sprawling recount of Beulah Park (sports) was superb… Sadly, Bob Hunter continued his incompetence, typing another tired column… This one whining about the NBA’s one year only required rule for collegians (Bob, everyone has written that column)…