Behind the Headlines

Tanya Purcell was surprised when Standard-Examiner reporter Loretta Park was able to get her 8-year-old son to open up about his infatuation with Batman.

Luke Purcell, described by his mother as a shy boy, was credited with notifying adults about a house fire in his Layton neighborhood while he was running around in his Batman costume.

The Democrats may be the minority party in Utah, but they sure aren't a silent minority.

Top of Utah Democrats flooded the newspaper with calls, letters and emails this week complaining about the lack of coverage of the state party convention.

It’s a new day for a new TV Preview guide in the Standard-Examiner.

I hope you’ve seen the ads and the Page One banners about our new guide, explaining that you will now find it in the Saturday paper.

For the last several years, the weekly TV publication has been inserted inside the Go! entertainment section that appears in the paper every Friday.

I really hesitate to dip my toe into this particular pool because people get upset every time I do.

Yes, faithful readers, I’m going to talk about the comics.

Email is a wonderful tool, making communications faster and broadening the universe to which you can easily send information. Facebook and Twitter take it several steps further, but email still has its niche.

But whether that niche is an effective tool as city officials’ only way of communicating with the media — well, we’re about to find out how well that works.

Watching the race for the Republican presidential nomination reminds me of a yo-yo.

First one candidate zooms up the popularity charts, then he slips back down. Then another pops up, then slides back down.

That’s pretty much been the pattern throughout the long, drawn-out process. Doubt it? Think Rick Perry, Michelle Bachman, Newt Gingrich.