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Win Bates died yesterday, very sad. Win was a throwback, lived for sports--especially the local stuff--and loved being a sportswriter. Spent plenty of time on the road with the Red Sox and covered all four of the Boston majors at one time or another. He could be a grumpy dude, but he had a good...

Question: Do your papers charge for obits? My mom's aunt died and the local rag wanted $370 for a six-inch obit and pic; minimum is $195/four inches.

Ugly. http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2008/12/register_closes.php

Or anyone for that matter who deals with Texterity on a regular basis; would you be so kind as to private message me, I have inquiries. Thx

... This is just typical of the state of today's newspapers. Early deadlines and morning papers just ruin the credibility of the sports section. The last line is just priceless though, yesterday's news tomorrow! The Boston Red Sox, riding the pitching of Jon Lester and a home run by Jason Bay...

Maybe it's a dumb question, but maybe not so much. After spending any amount of time covering sports--in particular around a pro team--are you still a sports fan? There are a lot of miserable bastards holed up in press boxes who don't seem to realize they're being paid to watch ballgames. Yes...

Maybe it's been done before, but let's anyway... I read one of the interviews on SMG where the interviewee quoted a colleague who predicts that a major newspaper in the U.S. will fold in the next five years and will exist only online. I think that's gutsy and ominous. So which paper will fold...

For those of us with children, are you as appalled as I am as to how poorly they write? I have two in high school and neither one could pull off a 500-word book report without making you reach for the barf bag. Says little for the way kids are taught, and it says plenty about the kids and their...