I have said many times that it is very easy in this job to present a skewed image of a community in the newspaper.
Nowhere is that more evident than in the city of Chester.
Simply put, it has not been an especially good couple of days in the city.
We continue to mourn the loss of Zenas Powell, the 14-year-old caught last Saturday night in a hail of bullets that were meant for someone else. There have been no arrests in that case.
Meanwhile, the city did record its 10th homicide, and also saw a former star on the Chester High basketball team charged in another murder. Erikk Wright was voted to the All-Delco basketball team, a key member of the undefeated 2012 Clipper team.
But there are other stories in the city, ones that offer another image of the city - and its young people.
That's why I had a reporter back in Chester yesterday to do a story on some very special honors for a group of students at Chester High and the STEM Academy.
Yes, they also appeared on our front page.
I very likely will continue to struggle with this idea of how many towns in the county, and the young people who live in them, are portrayed in the paper.
I would be lying if I denied that many - if not most - of those stories would be considered negative in nature.
That's the nature of the beast, and what I do.
But it's not ALL I do, and it's not all this newspaper does every day.
By the way, we'll be back in Chester this afternoon for a press conference with city officials, the police department brass and representatives from the Department of Justice. The feds have been invited to Chester to review police procedures in the wake of several police-involved shootings.
Yes, that's also part of covering the city.
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