A dissenting opinion formally presented to the board of commissioners by Sheriff Zanni on Tuesday has made headlines in The Sentinel and on this blog but so far there hasn’t been a peep at The World. Considering how much the paper provided for a draft version of the structure committee findings and the support for those findings on the editorial page the paper may have to do some serious sidestepping to explain its earlier position and its lack of coverage now. Maybe the paper is planning a big story complete with interviews from both sides for Saturday’s paper.

One can only hope but the paper never bothered to report on the reaction to claims made by committee members printed in the paper about drug abuse or the fact that employees in certain positions regularly pass tests for drugs as a part of their licensing and certification. Instead the paper has allowed the negative impressions left by thoughtless comments to go uncorrected.