I’ve just been asked to moderate a debate between school board candidates at Cypress Academy on October 23. This is my first time doing something like this, as I can recall, so it’s a good thing the event sponsors, the Parent Coordinating Council, is providing the questions.
It should be interesting.
I just got back from the first Hesperia City Council meeting at the new city hall (after driving on autopilot to the old city hall, of course). I have to say, it’s pretty nice. It’s comparable to a nice (but not extravagant) Los Angeles office building inside, with an attractive amphitheater for council meetings.
This meeting was full of folks from the Oak Hills Property Owners Association lobbying against the city absorbing three Oak Hills islands otherwise within Hesperia city limits. Seeing the room filled up as it was, I’m not sure how many seats the new facility has compared to the old council chambers — not a lot more is my first guess, but it’s rare that there’s a big crowd at council meetings, anyway. Usually, other than city staff and me (and now Hillary Borrud from the Daily Press), there’s between three and a dozen people at any given meeting, unless there’s an issue in some neighborhood.
Well, it’s happened: HesperiaStar.com has made the jump to being much more interactive and now allows comments.
Over the next few days, I’ll be adding category information to current and recent stories, so that a reader will be able to click on, say, “Election 2006,” and see all the election coverage in one list. More changes will be coming, including online photo galleries.
And, as you may notice, the page doesn’t simply show this week’s stories, which is a structural change that will allow us to post breaking news online when it happens.
Stay tuned.
A press release from Scott McCloud:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. OR SOMETHING.
The very first Winterview is online!
Join Winter McCloud (age 11) as she visits Queens, New York to interview cartoonist couple extraordinaire Raina Telgemeier (of “Smile” and “Babysitters Club” fame) and Dave Roman (associate editor at Nickelodeon and creator of “Astronaut Elementary” and “Agnes Quill”). The Winterview’s are produced and edited by Winter’s big sister Sky (age 13). An all-kid production! Hosted by Comic Book Resources.
Meanwhile, the Making Comics 50 State Tour continues to heat up. The family’s last September event, an appearance at Boston’s Northeastern University drew over 400 fans, and the family is now preparing for their October assault, including stops in New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maryland, Washington DC and side trips to Seattle and Barcelona, Spain! And on October 7th, they’ll be hitting Manhattan once more for the third annual 24 Hour Comics Day!
Read about the tour here.
Read the blog here.
Learn about 24 Hour Comics Day here.
22 days in. 343 Days to go!
I get a lot of press releases, both at work and at home. In the grand scheme of things, Scott McCloud is a pretty cool person to be receiving e-mails from, even when they’re press releases.
I’m not used to seeing Hesperia news in the San Bernardino Sun (they mostly focus on “down below,” as they say up here in the High Desert), so a few stories have slipped under my radar recently:
No idea if this recent flurry of coverage constitutes an editorial shift for the Sun or simply a coincidence. I have an in-law who subscribes to the Sun, so it’s not like no one up here reads it in lieu of the Daily Press, although it does seem that way at times.
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