BY CRAIG WENZEL

TRUE DAKOTAN EDITOR

Not all changes are good. The economic crisis in America is a good example of a “change for the worse”. And we could come up with many more changes that have an adverse affect on your life but we wouldn’t want to spoil your day.

Although some of us fiercely fought off the computer age, it turns out that was a “change for the better”, especially in the newspaper business.

We started this newspaper in 1975 with an antique, hot-metal-spittin’ linotype typesetting machine and little else. Our typesetting chores morphed from hot lead in the early 1970’s to Compugraphic strobe light typesetters of the 1980’s. Not long after that we threw out the Compugraphic machines to semi-embrace the computer era –complete with digital cameras.

Sure, the occasional glitch in a computer comes along and frustrates you for a while –especially if you are over 40 years of age. But it still is better than the “good old days”.

Here’s a change we hope you will appreciate: the True Dakotan will feature full color on page one from now on. This week’s issue is a sneak peak at the full color format of the paper. Over the past few years your hometown paper has featured a few full color photographs, and each time we you have reacted favorably.

The full color version of the True Dakotan front page will no doubt change as we try different things. Our worst fear is that we might tend to over do it— to make the paper look more like a comic book than a weekly newspaper. But stay with us as we undertake another big change on the pages of your weekly pape

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