Friday, April 18, 2008  Globe lagging behind other media outlets
on some stories  Two stories the Joplin Globe is treating as
startling new information in today's edition are old news to
readers of other publications.  The Globe breathlessly
"confirmed" that Webb City will no longer hold its traditional
"Mining Days" celebration:  Jeanne Newby, the city’s unofficial
historian and a member of the Webb City Mining Days committee,
confirmed Thursday that the annual Mining Days event, usually
staged the last weekend in September, is being discontinued. In
its place, the city wants to put on a series of other annual
festivals with different themes in the downtown area, including
a Route 66 event.  An attempt to reach Lou Gutheil, owner of the
historic Bradbury-Bishop Deli and head of the Mining Days
committee, for comment Thursday was unsuccessful.  Perhaps it
would have been easier for the Globe to pin down this story if
it had begun working on it when the announcement was made in the
Webb City Sentinel at least