Jonathan Ahl reports on the passing of Dave Schenk, director of Infrastructure and Engineering Services at Bradley University, which made him chief engineer at WCBU and WTVP. My condolences to his friends, family and co-workers.

Like Phil Luciano, I find the Journal Star’s obituaries much more readable and interesting than they were before they opened them up to more reader supplied details about the subjects’ lives.

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 [...]

That’s the question asked by a reader, who emailed this:
I was just told that the PJStar is going to charge $150.00 to print an obituary starting in September! Do you or any of your readers know if this is true?
We’ll find out in September, or earlier if someone at the Journal Star wants to make [...]