Hazelwood has opened a new aquatic center, so the Metro editors on duty yesterday decided to use the occasion to tell readers about municipal water parks throughout the area.

We compiled a list and located 15 on a map on…

One of our overnight editors left this message from last night: 

“ASHAMED: Got my butt chewed out by a woman who was most upset that the Post-Dispatch/website reported the use of an ax in our Sheley coverage. She felt that…

A reader called today to protest our lack of coverage of the war in Iraq. Not a word, she said.  She contrasted that to the lengthy story and large photo on Page A2 reporting the death of comedian George Carlin…

Washington Bureau Chief Bill Lambrecht shares this sampling of pro-Obama comments in the national press — pulled from the bottom section of Hotline’s assembled Obama coverage from last weekend.

Lambrecht observed: “Looking around, it seems like a lot of Obama…

A reporter this morning told me to expect calls from people offended by a photograph on the cover of the Here & Now section and currently the lead image on the LifeStyle channel of STLtoday.

“I’m not a bad lay,” reads…

A follow-up thought — from one of our political writers — to yesterday’s posting on Sunday’s huge Obama coverage:

Just for the record — and I’ve mentioned this to Parker already — our local coverage on the presidential candidates, when…

Editors and staffers here are aware of the desire and need to maintain objectivity in our coverage of the presidential campaign. That can be done by matching every word written or photo used on a daily basis — not the easiest or…

Two callers asked why we snubbed the 64th anniversary of D-Day. Not a word in the paper this morning.

Editors on our National desk and Metro desk say they weren’t offered stories — by the various wire services or our…

A caller today said we erred in putting the Rezko guilty verdict (”Rezko guilty verdict resonates”) at the top of today’s Post-Dispatch front page. That headline stretched across five columns.

She said the story about Obama’s historic candidacy (“Obama’s triumph lifts…

A retired Globe-Democrat staffer called to criticize our day-in and day-out reporting on the war in Iraq. Not enough, not prominent enough, she said.

Five years into the war, is an 8-inch story  in the middle of Page A5 enough? (”Iraqis…