Lead of the week
Only reporter Art Hovey could draw me into a corn pollination story with a lead like this in today’s Journal Star:
When it gets really hot during the pollination phase, the plant sex in the cornfield is not so hot.
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
By Deena Winter
Deena has been a journalist for some 25 years, writing for papers as small as the Northwood Gleaner (yes, Gleaner) and as large as the Denver Post. She wrote this blog in 2010-2011. Today she is a freelance journalist and nascent junker in St. Paul, MN.
Winterized 