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LET'S SEE WHAT'S IN THE NEWS TODAY

May 11th, 2006 by Clark Humphrey

“Hard-core GOP flee Bush, pollsters find.”
Someone’s planning a cable-TV channel just for infants. Something tells me it’ll also find an outside-the-target-demographic audience of ravers and stoners.
Stan Stapp, the pioneering neighborhood-newspaper publisher whose passing was announced yesterday, was one of the last old-time newspapermen. The North Central Outlook, which his family owned from 1922 to 1974, was fiercely devoted to both neighborhood coverage and to what used to be called “spot news.” Somehow, Stapp and his longtime associate editor Trudy Weckworth balanced homespun folksiness with an “if it bleeds, it leads” sense of priorities. This mix was most exemplified in Stapp and Weckworth’s notorious police-beat column, “Hash Ground Fresh Weekly” (which they periodically revived, either solo or as a collaboration, in several later papers).
In the “Hash” spirit, here’s a nice heartwarming story about a stripper fighting back against police entrapment.