Moments of Clarity and Sanity from the Flint Journal.

EVENT

NOTE: This is a revision of a post I wrote yesterday. It was supposed to be published over the last, but was not. I will publish it as a separate post to retain the integrity of earlier comments.

A staff editorial: Partner Benefits.

The Flint Journal endorsed Bush in 2000, and has never been exactly a bastion of liberal thought.

But this is a good summation of why Proposal 2 was a horrible idea in the first place.

Also, there were two columns recently dealing with the Terri Schiavo case.

The first was written by Rickey Hampton, which answers a lot of the polemic coming from both sides of this debate.

The second, by Andrew Heller, another favorite of mine, wants for a forceful argument, but still provides a lot of useful info on living wills (I can't avoid adding that this somewhat makes up for his woefully misinformed take on juvenile violence, but then that's not a debate I'm trying to have to day>.

* * * * *

None of this is groundbreaking.

But it's nonetheless notable from a newspaper that is (sometimes justly) criticized for watering-down or dancing around topics of import. More, this sort of level-headedness increases the paper's credibility where it is the only mainstream source of local info, and this in a time when editorialism seems to be going off the deep end.