Muscatine

Hey all, I've been working on a new news website at www.muscazine.com. I sort of want it to be community focused, and community organized (yes, right now it's filled with Obama stuff, because not much else is interests me enough to write about at the moment).

What would you guys like to see in such a website? I'm working right now on a cool feature that will allow people to subscribe via email for free, and get news alerts (school closings, etc). I was considering letting other people get accounts and post news as they please, or doing something to involve people more.

So, can I make this an Open Thread for your suggestions or proposals?

ideas

hello. i think in a website it should have classifieds, and the same things in a paper and if people want to to write articles of interest to them

I think


I think you should be careful calling a website a ''news website''!

Have a bit of a problem with you...

From your Ryan for Mayor website while running: ?“Ryan is an independent candidate with no party affiliation.?”
http://www.ryankopf.com/index.cgi?p=first

The Ryan Kopf for Mayor campaign began early in February 2007. http://www.ryankopf.com/index.cgi?p=history

From your Ryan for Mayor website: ?“Ryan has backed Senator Obama since the beginning of this election.?” (Obama announced candidacy on or about 02-10-07) http://www.ryankopf.com/blog/news/barack_obama.html

From your news (?) site: ?“Welcome to the Muscazine, Muscatine's best online news source.?” Says who?

From your Ryan for Mayor website: ?“He is currently studying Business Administration and Computer Science.?” http://www.ryankopf.com/index.cgi?p=first
Nothing reflects studies in journalism!

So what makes you a journalist all of a sudden?

Several months ago you touted yourself as a qualified mayoral candidate. Now, you?’re a journalist?

Likewise?…your website reflects that you had no party affiliation with your candidacy?…but then that same website says you have backed Obama since the beginning of this election.

Obama announced candidacy around Feb of 2007- making that the beginning of Obama?’s election campaign and the start of your support affiliation, since your site says you backed him from the start.

Supporting a presidential candidate supports that candidate?’s party, hoss!
That, my friend is party affiliation, whether you think so or not?…and makes you dishonest to the citizens of Muscatine that you tried to convince you had no affiliation with. Cheater, cheater!

I'd like to see

ballance, which if it's full of Obama stuff as you say means that it's already tainted and bias towards one particular point of view.