At least one reader should be happy with the column by Leonard Pitts Jr. that appeared on our Oct. 1 Voices page.

We’ve gotten two angry letters about a cartoon we ran depicting Michael Phelps as a frog. The authors of one are demanding an apology.

One thing troubles me about the beating we took in Sunday’s Tri-City Forum section.

Was John McCain a “Hanoi Hilton songbird” who collaborated with the enemy?

Last month we ran a couple of letters from readers taking us to task for our editorial on the latest Supreme Court ruling on Second Amendment rights.

The other day I promised to post links to video statements from Mid-Columbia candidates in important primary races.

Anyone who isn’t yet convinced of just how profoundly the Internet has changed the world needs to check out our local candidates on You Tube.

The New Yorker magazine is making headlines with this week’s cover, which features a satirical cartoon of Barack and Michelle Obama bumping fists in the Oval Office.

You may have already notice the drop down menu labeled “Elections” on the front page of tricityherald.com.

We’re renewing our friendship with the Benton Franklin Dispute Resolution Center this week.

We occasionally get letters from readers angry about something they disagree with on the opinion pages. It always astounds me.

One of the editorials we’re working on for the day’s ahead regards the Government Accountability Office’s announcement Wednesday that the Air Force made “significant errors” in awarding a new tanker contract.

We’re reprinting an editorial on an ongoing dilemma with the state’s Open Records Act.

Nothing unusual about this — readers are a step ahead of the Herald’s opinion staff.

Journalists — and I include editorial page editors in that category — are feeling a little threatened by the Internet these days.

We’re approaching the end of filing week for candidates seeking political office.

Wednesday’s editorial offers our take on today’s announcement that more than 90 percent of the Class of 2008 met the required reading and writing standards to qualify for graduation.

Now that Rich Semler has dropped out the state school superintendent’s race, it might be time to pay a little more attention to a candidate still in the running — former Eatonville High School principal Randy Dorn.

My last blog speculated that nuclear energy might be a bigger issue in the Tri-Cities than elsewhere. That was before Sunday’s edition of the Seattle Times.

In Sunday’s editorial, we call on the presidential candidates to give us more than sound bites on the issue of nuclear energy.

I’m sending out a version of this message to our e-mail list of letter writers tomorrow, but here’s a sneak preview in the meantime.

We’ve taken some heat for our editorial calling for a major overhaul of the federal farm bill.

Alert readers noticed the goof in our editorial today, referring to Ben Franklin’s nom de plume as Silence Dogwood instead of Dogood.

Look for an editorial early next week talking about our continuing efforts to provide a forum for Mid-Columbians to exchange opinions and ideas.

Steve Ackerman’s latest cartoon, poking fun at the Kennewick Police Department over an incident at the Kennewick Housing Authority Complex, has drawn fire.