Greg Jayne News Today

I think by now most of the reporters and editors at The Columbian have heard this analogy from me about six times, so let me share it with you: Newspapers need to be like Oreo cookies.

As I think I have told you before, I view one of my job duties as “fill in the gaps as needed.” That might mean writing a simple story if a reporter is not available, or helping the section editors with editing stories and giving the reporters some feedback. I write editorials and curate the opinion pages when Greg Jayne is absent or otherwise occupied.

It’s only Jan. 8, and I am already tired of this year. Insurrection, infection, icy roads — how long until the Winter Olympics? I want to watch curling, a sport in which there are no referees and the winning team traditionally treats the losers to a round of beer. That’s the kind of winter I want.

Greg Jayne is correct in his editorial, “Yes it can happen here” (The Columbian, Dec. 12) when he wrote, “Consider how some states are giving officials the power to overturn election results. When the will of the people can be ignored, we are no longer a democracy.”

We’re wrapping up the busiest week of the year at The Columbian tonight.

Greg Jayne’s column on March 7 (“You Can’t Please All The People,” The Columbian) misstates key facts.

Greg Jaynes column, like so many other discussions of the subject, cites statistical instances of disparity between the status of black and white populations as proof of rampant racism in our society (

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