The powers-that-be at the Journal Star spiked this column because the bosses were worried it might — heaven forbid — offend new hire Jack Brimeyer, who made sure this column finally ran on the Sunday before his last day at managing editor with the PJS.
Baker’s column is about the Journal Star’s adoption of a modular [...]

Managing editor Jack Brimeyer himself broke the news officially to readers: grieving families will now have to pay to have a full obituary* in the Journal Star. Of course, Brimeyer waits until the end of the fourth paragraph to get to lower the boom, and he does it in an underhanded fashion. Instead of [...]

From today’s follow-up article on Wednesday’s appellate court ruling that the public has no right to see Kay Royster’s job evaluations:
“It appears that the court did not devote much discussion to the argument that these documents bear on Superintendent Royster’s public duties or whether the policies of the board were being implemented by the superintendent,” [...]