One of the things political blogs can do is to serve as a kind of community bulletin board. Mostly, blogs that do this – in Oregon, Blue Oregon and Oregon Catalyst both sort of do – are partisan, home for posts from one side of the fence. But there are other ways you can approach this, including throwing open the doors entirely.
Newspaper website logically can do this. The Pocatello Idaho State Journal has loosely done this with its politics blog, which includes material from the paper itself (including some of its editorials) but also opinion posts from far and wide. (Material from super-veteran Idahoan Perry Swisher often are found there.)
In a little more formalized format, the Boise Idaho Statesman is setting out to do that too, with announcement today (via Kevin Riechert’s blog) of Talking Points, which will provide bulletin-board space for guest ops. The first batch up are posts from the state’s congressional delegation, but we’ll be interested to see how it’s used in weeks to come.
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