Chief candidate could spell trouble for headlines
Recently retired police Chief Joe Mokwa left late last month with some unfriendly headlines hanging over his head. 
His replacement could get revenge — on the copy editors at least.
Among the baker’s dozen of candidates that have stepped forward to replace Mokwa is a name sure to make the page designers queasy: Lt. Col. Roy J. Joachimstaler.
Pronounced Ja-Come-Staller, the handle has more characters than other polysyllabic surnames common in the Post-Dispatch (Blagojevich, Isringhausen.)
The veteran officer is among the inside candidates for the top spot, if for no other reason that he is one of three deputy chiefs — the second-highest rank in the department — up for the position. (The other two are Reggie Harris and Stephen Pollihan, who is currently the interim chief.)
For brevity’s sake, here’s hoping the job application has a line for nicknames.
Your copy editors should have been replaced by “Spell Check” long ago.
“His replacement could get revenge — on the copy editor’s at least.”
Why is there an apostrophe s on “editor’s” ???
There is no contraction, and what is the possessive?
The Sports guys figured out that Isringhausen is just “Izzy.” I’m sure Joachimstaler would soon morph into “Jake.”