Feeling blue ...

I noticed a distinctly blue tint to the paper today; the curtain in the background of the main photo is supposed to be green, for instance.
This week's issue is so full, we didn't have room for everything in our queue, even with most people off Monday and Tuesday — meaning no meetings, fewer people in government offices and schools, so fewer story sources with whom to work.
Overall, I think it's full of good information — bylined stories on more than just the front page. We just got done with the Gazette (see previous post), so it is now officially "next week."
Judging by our schedules and a backlog of e-mails — which often go unchecked between Tuesday morning and when the Web site update goes up, unless something breaking appears — we won't be posting our "next week" list until tomorrow morning.
We've changed the poll question, as we promised to do with more frequency. This week we're tackling Obama's first steps as president. Last week's had almost twice the normal number of voters; it seems that either the location change on the page helped, or people have really strong opinions about trains. If the latter is the case, we'll continue to follow the advisory board as they come closer to a proposed site — that should come within a month from now.
Speaking of opinions, we had a rush of letters to the editor late last week and early this week, so many that we could only fit a select number in the paper (some are still awaiting confirmation). If you sent something in, we will give it a read and get in touch ASAP. Suffice it to say that waste transfer station letters are about 10:1 compared to anything else.
The final stages of the Web upgrade - the link to MyNewsPhotos and story commenting — are coming, I promise.
Now that we're post-inauguration and post-snow, what's the news story you're following?