So Sarah Palin, who’s coming here next week for Thanksgiving with her family and also plans a book signing, thinks a Newsweek magazine cover photo of her was sexist.

A New York Times story that seems to have gone largely unnoticed could be the seed of some good news for newspapers with strong websites.

Note to Tim Eyman now that the votes are counted in the Nov. 3 election:

Veterans Day always reminds me of our nation’s commitment to honoring its veterans by establishing and maintaining an impressive network of cemeteries where so many thousands of them rest.

It verges on gross understatement even to say that emotions are running high in the case of a well-known former coach who was accused of hitting an autistic boy.

Newspaper readers often chide newspaper editors for allowing stories to focus too much on gloom and doom.

Of all the conflicts the world titled “war” during the 20th century, none lasted as long as the Cold War, which is generally recognized as lasting from 1945 until 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed.

So you think the government releases too much private information and the nosy news media publishes it?

Folks who think the new media’s attack blogs and partisanship are something new are either rather young or slept through — or never studied — media history.

The two photos from 1944 appear to show a face I haven’t seen since 1965. And that face apparently belonged to a man who wouldn’t meet me for four years.

When Trooper James E. Saunders was shot to death during a Pasco traffic stop on Oct. 7, 1999, the entire Tri-Cities was shocked.

Roger Forbes, the Seattle entrepreneur whose X-rated empire once included the old Liberty Theater in Pasco, is back in the news.

To the fellow who called to yell nonstop for a full minute before ending with “You go to hell!” and then hanging up, I would have liked to get a word in edgewise.

Since I first started selling newspapers as a carrier in my hometown more than 50 years ago, my customers have fascinated me.

Late in the summer of 2008, Herald reporter Paula Horton learned the Tri-City Metro Drug Task Force was in turmoil, with its leader suspended from work.

When the Ask the Editors blog about Pasco having only one high school until this fall ran in the print version of the Herald, it prompted several calls and e-mails.

Was there ever an Ainsworth High School in Pasco?

Next week, the Tri-Cities will mark two education milestones.

It’s time to put on your boots and jeans and head out to the Benton Franklin Fair & Rodeo and join the Herald for our summer classic family good time.

Signs that the economic fortunes of newspapers are starting to turn around are emerging as the recession’s grip on the nation’s economy recedes.

“The gods do not deduct from a man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing,” according to the ancient Babylonian proverb.

The Associated Press and its member partners are on the verge of making it much more difficult for content thieves to escape detection.

Seems like our good speaker of the House, Rep. Frank Chopp, has been reading Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Thanks to the internet, we now can tell you precisely how much Tri-Citians love the Water Follies and the Lamb Weston Columbia Cup hydroplane races.

The last weekend of July has brought unlimited hydromania to the Tri-Cities annually since 1966.

From 1966 to 2006, a newspaper company reporting it had made a solid profit was the financial news equivalent of an airliner landing safely.

Sometimes context is important.

Copyright thieves in radio, television and on the web who grab news stories, photos and other unique content without regard to legal consequences have gotten a couple of warnings this past week.

“Why do newspapers have to be so depressing?” the reader asked. “I mean newspapers print endless articles about all the bad things that happen, but never anything that gives hope for humanity.”

President Obama’s visit to Russia has pretty much played second banana in U.S. news to many folks’ renewed obsession with Michael Jackson since his death.

Iran’s ruling cabal seemed to think that if it followed the dictator’s handbook and kicked out foreign journalists, its election fiddling and violent suppression of anti-government demonstrators might receive less attention from the world.

Washington blueberry growers are going to the birds.

When we added the comic Tundra to the Herald on May 11, we asked readers for feedback on other comics they would like to see.

Tri-City Herald readers are sticklers for detail as they pore over our weather page each day.

I can’t resist a flashy car.

Jason Moore of West Richland took Tri-City broadcasters to task in our Sunday letters to the editor column because of “absolutely no radio or television coverage for any of our kids participating in state tournaments” on May 29-30.

Across the Mid-Columbia, thousands of soon-to-be high school graduates, their parents, grandparents, friends and relatives all are bracing for one of the region’s most significant events of the year.

When President Barack Obama announced his choice for the pending U.S. Supreme Court vacancy, he touted Judge Sonia Sotomayor as someone who has “an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live.”

There are hundreds of Tri-Citians who use marijuana regularly — and legally.

A seattlepi.com blogger has taken a broader look at the issue of radio and TV broadcasters’ plagiarism of newspaper news reports after seeing my April 30 column.

Since I grew up in Montana about 14 miles from the Continental Divide, I’ve always valued wilderness for the solitude, solace and sense of place it instills.

Everyone seems to know many big-city newspapers are struggling to survive.

Could an old Latin proverb still apply in the 21st century media landscape?

A piece of President Obama’s budget that hasn’t drawn as much attention as other high-profile programs would finally bury the controversial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project in Nevada.

Have a certain fondness for snowmen, large bears and animal jokes?

Reporters sometimes have a hard time believing it, but the best friend they can ever have is a sharp copy editor.

In the newspaper world, plagiarism has always been a capital crime. It usually will get the plagiarist fired or, for a lesser offense, suspended without pay and reprimanded.

Can a newspaper website thrive once it no longer has the power of print behind it?

The folks who believe guns are evil aren’t having a very good time lately. Though the Democrats are back in power, there’s no appetite in Washington, D.C., for new gun control laws.

Newspaper editors, reporters and photographers tend to think the part of the newspaper they create — the news stories, page layouts and photographs — are what’s really important to readers.