Commentary by Brian Kelly and Steve Greenberg
One year ago this week, you opened your mailbox to find the debut copy of Current in Zionsville. We’re not munching on “birthday” cake as we write this, but being able to serve you and your fellow residents is an opportunity and privilege worth celebrating. The chance to bring you local news and information is something we take seriously. The chance to serve the merchants in Zionsville gets equal consideration. Without you and our advertising partners, there wouldn’t be a Current in Zionsville. In the last several months, we hope you’ve noticed an effort to become even more local under the direction of managing editor Julie Osborne. That will continue. Where we repurpose content from other Current editions – if it makes sense to do so – we are looking to make it the exception. Julie and her team are working diligently to shape Current through the connections they’re establishing, into the paper we all envision. We anticipate that happening rather quickly. Thanks for making our first year a great run, and here’s to many more!
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Some in Congress, such as Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), want Saturday postal delivery, a possibility for the chopping block, maintained. Bad idea. Since Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is stuck with a 2006 law Congress passed during the Bush II administration, he is in the middle of pre-paying, across 10 years, 75 years’ worth of anticipated retiree health benefits. With handcuffs on. Granted, the union environment often is counterproductive to customer service and the chance at longevity for the USPS, but the Republicans of the last decade foisted this upon all of us. We’ve taken our share of shots at the shoddy business practices at the USPS, but that with which Donahoe has been encumbered defies logic, just as Moran’s demand to retain Saturday delivery in the face of mounting deficits does.