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George Rodrigue is managing editor of The Dallas Morning News. He leads the team of journalists that produces the news, sports, business and features sections. E-mail \| Bio		Keven Ann Willey is The Dallas Morning News' editorial page editor. She oversees the Editorial, Viewpoints and Opinions pages, as well the Points section and letters to the editor. E-mail \| Bio
They will take turns answering your questions each week.

08/21/2008

Ask the editor: Assistant Editorial Page Editor Michael Landauer
Readers now have the ability to comment on -- and recommend -- stories, columns, articles and editorials across DallasNews.com. This is especially exciting for the Editorial and Viewpoints pages.

08/14/2008

Ask the Editor: Managing Editor George Rodrigue
Several readers wondered why we took so long to write about John Edwards’ affair with a former videographer for his campaign. A typical note closed with the question, “Would you have done the same if he were a Republican?” Frequent correspondent Rick Atkinson says he understands we are reluctant to use the National Enquirer as a source, but adds that we need to get with modern times. Once a story has reached the Drudge Report, he says, it’s news, period.

08/06/2008

Ask the Editor: Assistant Editorial Page Editor Mike Hashimoto
Editorial columnist Rod Dreher may be a published book author, devoted family man and newspaper writer of some regard, but for many of you, he remains mostly a curiosity. How does he get from Point A to Point B in writing his weekly column in Sunday’s Points section? This Q&A should help clear that up.

07/23/2008

Ask the Editor: Assistant Editorial Page Editor Mike Hashimoto
Columns can be like children to columnists: They might keep you up nights and spit up a little on your clothes, but they also become the objects of affection so strong that it’s not possible to pick one over another. Yet, that’s what we asked our four regular op-ed columnists to do. Not their favorite columns of all time, just this year.

07/17/2008

Ask the Editor: DMN Managing Editor George Rodrigue
Some veterans of foreign wars deeply resented a passage near the top of Jacquielynn Floyd's July 4 Metro column on patriotism. "If your article…were presented to a military tribunal your fate would, probably, be the firing squad," said Marty Nell, commander of VFW Post 4380 in Plano.

07/09/2008

Ask the Editor: Deputy Editorial Page Editor Sharon Grigsby
I hope many of you read the six-day kickoff to our "Bridging Dallas' North-South Gap" project. A special thanks to everyone who already has taken the time to offer feedback. (Please keep those e-mails coming to southerndallas
@dallasnews.com.) In addition to praise, we received a number of excellent questions and concerns from readers.

07/02/2008

Ask the Editor: Managing Editor George Rodrigue
Nicolas Boyle of University Park writes to raise several questions about our coverage of the proposal to create a toll system on Mockingbird Lane. In general, he wondered whether we made too much of the story to foster an adversarial atmosphere between the Park Cities and Dallas. “First, the opening sentence of the June 5 article is patently false: ‘Highland Park’s solution to unclogging traffic on Mockingbird Lane: Make Dallas drivers pay for it.’ It is not a solution; it was never been [sic] discussed in either open forum or closed (for all we know); and even the most simple understanding of congestion pricing would tell you that tolling a road taxes everyone, not just Dallas drivers.”

06/25/2008

Ask the Editor: Assistant Editorial Page Editor Michael Landauer
Since we installed new security measures on our opinion blog and made comments appear automatically, we’ve seen the number of comments increase to more than 1,500 per month. If the trend continues, by the end of the year, we’ll receive more comments on our blog than letters to the editor.

06/11/2008

Ask the Editor: Editorial Page Editor Keven Ann Willey
Sifting through the Ask the Editor inbox: Reader Ashlee A. Matthews emailed us to object to Thomas Sowell's Viewpoints column last Friday. It was titled, "No turning back – If Iran gets bomb, that sobering fact makes the presidential vote easier." In it, the Hoover Institution senior fellow explains why he believes a vote for John McCain over Barack Obama for president should be a "no-brainer."

06/05/2008

Ask the Editor: Managing Editor George Rodrigue
Gary Moer writes to ask whether we can do a story wrapping up all the areas in the United States that are off-limits to oil drilling. “Just last Friday while I was in a Plano convenience store, I saw a lady begging for money to put gas in her car,” he says. “I was in a nice part of Plano. How much more of this are we going to see, because we won’t develop our own resources?”