The Cal

A few days after scolding Jennifer Kabbany she redeems herself. Suicide is a touchy subject for all, especially newspapers. But this story is pegged to an actual event and brings the subject out to the front. The photo is typical and not deserving of this story.

Thanks Kabbany for proving my criticism of you wrong. Read it here.

Aaron Claverie had a nice story about a new trail going into Lake Elsinore. But someone needs to tell the reporters that longer is usually never better. This story is about five paragraphs too long.

The PE

Amanda Strindberg makes it on the list today with her story on animals getting wheelchairs. While it’s nothing new, you still can’t beat seeing pictures of dogs in wheelchairs motoring about. It put a smile on my face and apparently that’s hard to do.

Lake Elsinore quit making the valley look bad. This story made the news, radio and bogs across the world. The nerve of a thief stealing an Olympians shotgun while she shopped for wedding shoes at the Lake Elsinore Outlet. I bet the thief recently purchased something at Pottery Barn and saw this shotgun lying around and thought, “It would match my new armoire perfectly.”

I personally didn’t care for the lede by Tammy McCoy:

A two-time Olympic gold medalist is hoping for a small miracle.

The Perazzi 12-gauge shot gun Kimberly Rhode, 29, used in the past four Olympic games was stolen Thursday from her father's pickup truck at the outlet mall in Lake Elsinore.

"I'm just devastated. The gun is really (pause); it's priceless to me," she said by phone from a competition in Colorado Springs. "I need the gun back ... no questions asked."

The quote is fantastic but the lede left me wondering. Why a small miracle? Why was that the best phrase that Ms. McCoy could have used?

Jeff Horseman did an update on that Temecula waterpark and once again the lede left me bored.

Developers of a Temecula water park are looking into building their project at a location once seen as a higher education haven.

I’m tired of reading stories that start with developers, proponents – step outside the box and try something new. What about something as stupid as – Temecula’s attempts at a higher learning complex are about to get wet.

Seriously do people really still care about this beef recall in Chino? Did anyone care when it happened? Well, the PE still does and Julia Glick gives us the update. I will give the PE one thing – when the editors get their minds on a story they milk it for all its worth. Get it – cows, milk it.

This story was never a talker and the amount of print that was dedicated to it shocked me. Please stop. Besides PETA, no one cares.

Mr. Aaron Burgin continues to bore us with Lake Elsinore stories that no one cares about. Planning commissions, car wash developers, down size standards. It’s not why people get the paper Mr. Burgin. Spend more time in your community finding the interesting stories then at public meetings. In this latest one about planning standards being relaxed to allow smaller homes the point of the story isn’t made until the 7^th graf. Here is the link if someone has minutes of their life to waste.