Dodge Globe Blogs

So I was told not too many people in Dodge City are followers of the NBA. Well, let's discuss what you fine folks in Kansas have been missing.

So there's this guy named James. I think his first name is LeBron but I'm not sure. Anyway, it might be a good idea to watch this guy becuase he may very well be the most athletically gifted individual in all of sports.

The 6-foot-8-inch, 250-pound MVP and defensive player of the year runner-up has the Cleveland Cavaliers waiting for its next opponent, or victim.

    One of the first parts of the journey of rebuilding Greensburg will soon be a memory after last week.
    The remaining residents of Femaville had to be out of the 'ville by May 6.

The Daily Globe is a paper going through an identity crisis.

As a growing community of 30,000, the median age of Dodge City continues to get younger. The number of readers on our Web site is going up and more and more people are reading the Globe.

But, not all of our readers are online. While we continue to appeal to the younger generation — area high school and college students — we also owe it to our readers who love their deadwood edition. And it's a love I share.

A friend of mine paid me a really nice compliment yesterday. She said she enjoyed my stories in recent issues of the Globe. She said “It’s like reading NPR.”

      I consider NPR one of the few remaining bastions of careful language in modern media, so I especially appreciated her comment.

If you've spent any time at baseball games, you know that reviling the umpires —  especially if they seem to favor the other team— is a cherished part of the national pastime, like popcorn, hot dogs and warm beer.

But could the millions of baseball fans who think umpires are absurdly overpaid idiots be wrong?

For all you NBA-haters, meet Cleveland Cavaliers' Delonte West.

 13.3 points per game, 4.4 assists in 40 minutes per game in the 2009 playoffs. He's burst onto the scene since going to Cleveland before the '07-'08 season. No doubt, he has benefitted from playing with the beast of a man-child that is LeBron James, but as this correspodent piece on Jim Rome Is Burning suggests, he's got enough personality alone to get the Cavs to re-up on that contract. 

    So the Tourism Master Plan has been released, and National Tourism Week is coming up soon. Time to step back and look at the state of the tourism industry in Dodge City.
    The world in financial crisis, gas prices on the rise again, and now a potential pandemic that has health officials threatening to close the borders and outlaw travel — not the best time to hope for better business at local attractions.

The pleasure of most crime novels, even the better-than-average ones, dissipates once the mystery is solved and the bad guy is caught (or not).

But that's not the case with Joseph Kanon's 1997 novel "Los Alamos," a crime drama set in Los Alamos, N.M., during the development of the first atomic bomb.

    I think we missed the celebrations of May Day this year. No dancing around the May pole; no baskets of flowers and candy left anonymously at the front door; no military parades in Red Square.
    When I was really young, we celebrated May Day at school. The school year was drawing to a close and, looking back, I realize the teachers were looking for a good excuse to get everyone out doors and out of the classroom.

The cool thing about being in charge of a smaller newsroom is how involved the locals get.

People in Dodge City feel like they have stock in the local newspaper. When people feel like we're doing our job well, they brag us up. When they feel like we're letting them down, they're certainly not afraid to let us know that either.