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William - My take on the article is it looks like some kind of press release or under-developed guest column. It's filler copy, in lieu of something developed by the UTW staff. You make interesting points.
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Also, what were you thinking when you published (in Davis' sports column) the line, "There may be a riot if the deal falls apart" with respect to the stadium deal? We're most likely talking about a stadium in Greenwood, which was at the center of the infamous 1921 race riot. Perhaps the columnist meant no harm (I'll give the benefit of the doubt on that point), but the line falls flat and is more tacky than anything else. An editor should have excised it from the final version.
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So, you finally put together a blurb on SemGroup (in your News Update), but you included nothing on the possible impact of the firm's problems on plans for a new stadium for the Drillers. Even the sports piece by Dwayne Davis, which rambles about the stadium, doesn't get into the funding question. Reports I've seen say that Mayor Taylor had talked with SemGroup about a $7.5 million contribution, but no commitment had yet been made. The overall stadium project is to cost $60 million with some $30 million coming from private donors. There should have been something in your report on what the mayor has to say about whether the $7.5 million she discussed with SemGroup was part of the $30 million in private money she was touting at the time of the stadium vote. You should also have carried something on when the mayor knew SemGroup was in trouble.
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LOL. Here we are in the midst of the SemGroup debacle and your lead items are a puffy piece about a festival and another B-list item about a borrow-a-bike program. It's been just a couple of months since you made a Valentine of a feature about Tom Kivisto your cover story. Looking back, one has to wonder why you don't appear to have asked him anything about potential pitfalls for his "empire." After all, as the TW pointed out in one of its numerous stories on SemGroup, Moody's raised a warning flag more than two years ago about Sem's debt load and penchant for acquisitions. Not having any substantial piece of reportage this week on SemGroup, after giving Kivisto the butt-kissing you gave him in that cover story leaves you with major egg on your face. Can you handle the challenge?
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It is unfortunate, too, that Mr. Melcher chose to characterize the proposed legislation as a threat to science education. Science is all about free investigation, analysis and expression. Students should no more be mindlessly taught evolution than they should be barred from studying it at all. Teaching youth the history of the development of ideas is given short shrift in American K-12 ed,
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