Growing Pains

I still support the concept of the Examiner being a competitor to the Sun, but you can tell that the new paper is still getting its feet wet. One staff writing wrote this in a story about local bills today:

The stroke of midnight Monday also signaled the end of a few Anne Arundel delegates’ tenure in the General Assembly. Leopold and Republican Del. David Boschert have both resigned their seats to run for county executive.

Of course, neither man has actually resigned his seat. If they did resign, the Central Committee would still be responsible for choosing a nominee for the Governor to appoint to the seat, even though the term of office expires before the next regular General Assembly session. And I am also certain that, since there are still 82 days until the filing deadline, that both men will want to retain their incumbency if they decide to drop out and run for re-election.

The point here, however, is that the Examiner needs to make sure they get the little things like this right before they will seriously challenge the Sun's primacy.