By:
deb_holmes on 5/28/10
I love the restaurant review idea. Like your business spotlights, it would be great if you could build up an archive of reviews for readers to reference when they're looking for something. I'd love to see both of these features (business and restaurant reviews) tagged and indexed with some sort of search widgit as well so that I can sort through the older material in a more directed fashion.
In general I think your story mix is pretty good. There's a bit more coverage of highschool sports than a person who's never had a child in the local highschools might care about, but I do like seeing all of the individual accolades. I really like your coverage of the various city planning meetings. I think you've done some campaign and election coverage for state and local politics in the past, and hope you will continue that. Letting us know where we can go to meet candidates, carrying their position statements and covering election outcomes would all be helpful.
A calendar section with various scheduled events might be useful as well. Especially if its fairly easy for organizers to add the events themselves.
I think comments should be signed, but perhaps you could have some sort of option that would allow a writer to route the post to an editor with the reason the author might want their name suppressed, so that exceptions can be handled.
