The Story | Alvord suffers a true crime spree as a car wash and cars are burglarized, and a school is vandalized. |
)News worthiness (1 to 5) |
** |
The Spin | If there were any businesses in downtown they would shut down and move. |
The Story | Some lady is sentenced to 10 years in federal court for defrauding some high-tone resort on an Florida island of about $6 million. |
News worthiness | ** |
The Spin | I don't think Wise County really cares about this. We need something that we can relate to. |
The Story | In a Letter to the Editor, a lady accuses a man of poisoning cats near the Shamrock station south of Decatur on 287. "I found rat poison in the water shortly after seeing a man driving a truck leave the area." |
News worthiness | * |
The Spin | Now we've got crime we care
about! Kitty death! Let's call in the Texas Rangers. But how'd this
lady have access to a CSI crime lab? |
The Story | It's a slow news week so I offer this: I think a lady that appeared on the front page pic in the Messenger (in association with the Youth Fair beauty pageant) looks like that gal who had a bit role in Knocked Up. |
News worthiness | * |
The Spin | My photographic evidence here. |
The Story | As first reported in an exclusive story in the Pulitzer Prize winning Blog two weeks ago, the Messenger now reports on the community church at Runaway Bay hiring a pastor with some baggage. |
News worthiness | *** |
The Spin | What's up with a church that practices foregiveness? Jesus would not approve of that. Oh, wait. But, that aside, this gem in the story is what really got my attention: "The Runaway Bay Community Church has a unique past. It was started about 30 years ago by golfers who lived or vacationed at the little city on the water. They wanted to attend a Sunday service but they didn't want it to cut into their golf time." It may be the most honest church on earth. |