We’ve had a few readers wondering what happened to the Lucky Cow comic strip. It’s gone.  I don’t have firsthand knowledge of the details. But here’s an explanation from Alan Gardner, who wrote in his online Daily Cartoonist report Jan. 3:…

We’re guilty of some not-too-sharp editing in today’s paper. Our top story today attempted to make sense of the post-Super Tuesday presidential campaign landscape. I thought it did so very well. But we had one big oversight. In the graphic…

The Associated Press called Hillary Rodham Clinton the winner in Missouri’s Demcoratic primary Tuesday evening, just as the Post-Dispatch faced its first-edition deadline, shortly before 11 p.m.

Political writer Jo Mannies and political editor Christopher Ave pulled back Mannies’ story,…

A reader today told me he thought we undercovered the endorsements of Obama by Ted and Caroline Kennedy. 

He missed the small items that ran  inside Sunday’s and Monday’s main news sections.  On Page A11 Sunday,  midway down the “candidate updates”…

“Favorite son rides a “rock star” vibe,” read the biggest headline  in Sunday’s Illinois editions of the Post-Dispatch.  It was atop the story reporting presidential poll results of Illinois voters. (Sunday’s Missouri editions lead with results of the Missouri voters…

“Lou” has its enemies. 

A voice message greeted me this morning from an older-sounding woman reader who proclaimed that the day the Post-Dispatch referred to St. Louis as “The Lou” on the front page and the day a sticky ad appeared…

The Post-Dispatch ran a correction this morning that misled one reader.  The correction: “Anthony Shahid, who attended a ceremony in St. Louis honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was misidentified in a photo caption in Tuesday’s main news…

Three more calls today objecting to the pregnant belly on Monday’s A1.  One woman said that when she saw the photo of the “squishy pregnant belly of a mother” on Monday, she thought that the only thing that would be…

Today’s my first day back from vacation (a week in New Orleans) and I fielded about 20 phone messages from readers who chose to leave voice messages.

Some comments:

Four callers objected to our first-year anniversary stories on the Shawn Hornbeck case.…