| The Story | The U.S. Census shows that Decatur's population had grown to 5,201 and the county's population has grown to 48,793. |
| News worthiness (on a scale of 0 to 5) | *** |
| The Spin | That means 90% of the county's population does not call Decatur home (up from 88% ten years ago). |
| The Story | The census also revealed that the population of Rhome, the flagship of the "fast growing southern part of the county", actually fell from 605 people to 551. |
| News worthiness | *** |
| The Spin | Rhome officials have placed a call into Scully and Mulder in order to get to the bottom of this. |
| The Story | Bridgeport city officials think their population may have been undercounted because of the "possibility the government did not count one of its prisons". |
| News worthiness | ** |
| The Spin | The Chamber of Commerce rejected the proposed new slogan of: "A community so close that many of our 4,309 residents eat, sleep and play together and even share a common wardrobe". |
| The Story | A letter to the editor blasts the justice system for allowing the mother of a deceased child to receive eight years probation. "Eight stinking years, when she deserved life . . . . Why was it OK for her mother to hurt her, beat her, and cause her death?" |
| News worthiness | * |
| The Spin | That's all well and good but the mother was never indicted or accused of injuring the child. The only charge against her was failing to seek medical attention in a timely manner. |
| The Story | The County Commissioners ordered constable Leonard Denney not to allow his wife to drive his official vehicle and make traffic stops while he rides as a passenger. |
| News worthiness | **** |
| The Spin | Constable's probable Spin: "You can take your kid to work, why can't I take my wife to work?" Commissioners' probable Spin: "We can't get the image out of our heads of Junior driving Sheriff Buford T. Justice around." |