ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, March 6, 1997 TAG: 9703060029
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-8 EDITION: METRO
YOU'VE doubtless noticed changes in today's newspaper, from the design of headlines to that wrapper around the front section. Not wanting to be left out, we're introducing a few changes, too, on the opinion pages.
One is a feature called "Your Call." Starting today, every day, we'll publish a phone number with the newspaper's editorials. Call it if you have something to say about an issue raised in one of our editorials, but prefer not to write a letter.
If you leave your name and briefly stated opinions on the voice-mail, on Thursdays we'll publish a selection of phoned-in responses received over the past week. (Of course, you can also still write - and mail, fax or e-mail - a letter to the editor.)
Along with Readers Forum (in which we ask a question and invite responses) and Talking It Over (in which we print a letter, our response, and the letter-writer's last word), Your Call is meant to extend the discussion on these opinion pages.
We see the pages as a community forum for exchanging wide-ranging views. We hope you'll join the conversation.
Other changes are introduced today on the Commentary page. Syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman moves from Tuesdays to Thursdays. Roanoke Times columnist Ray L. Garland will appear tomorrow.
And today a new Thursday feature begins: nuggets of strange-but-true stories drawn from a syndicated column by Chuck Shepherd.
Shepherd was a Washington, D.C., lawyer and college professor who gave it all up and moved to Redington Beach, Fla., where he sits on his Gulf-front balcony and writes about the weirdness of the world.
Shepherd seems almost sympathetic to the unreasonable behavior he chronicles. And why not? As George Bernard Shaw wrote: "The reasonable man tries to adapt himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Thus, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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