The Chester High boys basketball team are not the only young people in the city earning acclaim these days.
We used our front page on Friday to note the accomplishments of a group of kids from Stetser Elementary School who have been selected to participate in a special gardening program at the White House by First Lday Michelle Obama.
We will report back on their experiences later today after their trip to D.C.
On Friday I posted an item here in The Heron's Nest detailing our front-page coverage of those kids. We are often criticized for not taking note of the good things Chester kids are doing, and not playing up positive stories that offer another view of the city than the one that often makes the newspaper and website.
So of course that item sparked a bit of discussion online. Were people effusive in their thanks for our coverage of these great kids and their honor of being selected to go to the White House?
Uh, not exactly.
Most of the comments on that blog item accused us of putting it on the front page just so we could offer a positive story about the White House and Michelle Obama.
It's just the latest way we are 'in the tank' for Obama, what with us being 'left-wing liberals' and all.
So much for offering another view of kids in Chester.
Instead they're just pawns in the partisan political war that some people see in everything we do.
Must be Monday.
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