Jennifer Moody

Ah, Media Day! Let’s have a media day here, and invite Joe Public to see how WE do business.

“News” covers so many things: Car wrecks. City council decisions. Kids who can blow up balloons with their noses.

I did a fun new thing last night: went to “A Grand Night for Singing” at the Historic Grand Theater in Salem.

I am still writing about memorable stories A-Z in my going-on-15 years here at the Democrat-Herald. I kind of got stuck because the only good ‘N’ story that comes to mind is one I wrote in December 1999, and I can no longer find the original.

What I’ve been up to lately, in just seven easy installments.

Continuing with favorite story memories from the last 14 years A-Z: L is for Lucas, Lourdes and lightning.

In which I explain why the Lebanon Express had a more complete story than the Democrat-Herald updating a Title IX complaint situation at Lebanon High School.

Continuing with memorable stories in 14 years, A-Z:

K is for kindergarten

Several years ago, I had the chance to chat with a high school friend who now lives in Portland. My friend was incensed about a tuition kindergarten program where she lives that she believed discriminated against low-income children by charging for the class, making it impossible to go to their neighborhood schools.

A teacher asked me the other day if we might come to cover something in her classroom. What elements, she asked, do we consider when making our decision? What, if anything, could she do to tip the balance in her favor?

Jennifer Moody makes the following observations in the wake of Civil War 113: