Suiting up

As the meeting began, senior editor Carla Savalli was unwrapping court documents about a libel lawsuit against The Spokesman-Review - $25 million, Robert Waggy, a guy representing himself. ( Update: Corrected amount sought in lawsuit to $25 million.)

It’s easier nowadays to file suit, editor Steve Smith said, because the forms are all available online. To which assistant city editor Dan Hansen added - perhaps they’re preprinted with The Spokesman-Review (as respondent).

Thin slices

• In response to a “quasi-rhetorical” question from Stacey Cowles yesterday about whether River Park Square stories would ever go away, Smith said he didn’t think so. Cowles sighed, according to Smith.
• Big deal in the Mac world - The MacBook Air. Any thinner and it wouldn’t exist: The MacBook Zen, you must believe that it’s there. “I think therefore I compute,” said Smith. Read the business story here .
• Snow a challenge for those with disabilities includes a link to a video about paratransit.
• The long-talked-up haggis story ran in the paper today. Features editor Ken Paulman served it at his house, with Scotch as accompaniment. His guests found it to be stabilizing stomach fuel for late-night parties.
• The CCi gods bit again - an accidental crop lost the face of the airman on the right. Here is the original photo:

Fairchild Air Force Base Wing Commander Col. Tom Sharpy (left) offers a high five to Staff Sgt. John Stolz, Tech. Sgt. Edward Tillman III and Staff Sgt. Jeremy Walker before a medals ceremony honoring the airmen, January 15, 2008. Sharpy later told the men “It is an honor serving with you”. Dan Pelle photo.

• Good idea: A reader called reporter Jim Camden to suggest running the schedules for presidential debates on television.
• Is it weather enough for a weather story? Is 13-degree weather unusual for January? Is it a news event? Our editors think not.