To FCN:
I read the First Capitol News faithfully each week from front to back. I just would like to know why I have to read the continuation of sports stories before I get to the sports headline. It seems to me the sports could start on the 13th or 14th page and then continue on the following pages just like all of the other stories you write about!!!!!! Is there any way this could be corrected?????
Loyal Reader:
Richard W. Funderburg
Editor’s response
Thank you for your suggestion. Our sports editor requested the placement so there would be a ‘front page’ for the sports section. It is done this way in the New York Times, New York Posts and several other major newspapers. We have considered changing it but have not yet made a decision. Your suggestion will be given consideration and we appreciate your comments.
Managing Editor
First Capitol News
Mike McMurran Sports Editor
Thanks for the football roundup score and article on St. Charles High School game. My grandson (Robert Brown) played for SCHS until he graduated in 2004. He is in the marines now and I send him newspaper clippings of SCHS, college, and pro games every week. The Post Dispatch and St. Charles Journal have ignored SCHS once again so hope you continue reporting SCHS scores & stats. Thanks again for a job well done.
Robert’s grandmother
Nancy Morton
Editor FCN
I know that St Peters project is out of your St.Charles. But I live very near to it and it will affect me.
For the last couple of weeks, just northwest of the Truman road railroad overpass, several large earthmovers have been digging. I think someone is laying sewer pipe and raising this plot for a pad for building construction. This started way before the levee permit was issued.
People lose sight of the fact that not only is Lakeside in the Mississippi flood plain at a narrow bend, but this area is between two major creeks
Lakeside traffic, coupled with the New Town will produce gridlock on I 370 and Spencer.
Anonymously T
Dear Editor,
After watching the news on TV about the City of New orleans being ravished and nearly destroyed by flooding, I could not help but compare it to St. Charles. The ill-fated winds of corruption blowing in trying to destroy everything in their paths. Floods of money trying to over-whelm the chosen few and pulling the muck over the eyes of taxpayers with their head in the sand and not seeing.
Let’s not over-look the looting going on in both cities, by the corrupt and greedy politicians and some elected officials.
One might say we can not compare the two types of looters. I say we can. New Orleans looting is being done by some low-life elements who prey and steal and don’t care about the law. In St. Charles we have the looters who hide behind phony organization names and use positions and money to loot from the tax payers.
At least the New Orleans looters are fairly open about what they do. But here in St. Charles they hide behind their Puppet Politicians and money.
Tale of two Cities?
PJ
