Coming Sunday in The Star's Insight section

Remember the cool tease I blogged about a few posts ago? Here's the more that I promised:

Sunday's cover story in the Insight section is penned by Katie Adams, a rising senior at the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile. She's from Saks; she's one of us. And she's written a particularly good essay on the pressures of applying for college and trying to decide which school to attend. Too bad she's gone back to Mobile; I'd love to have her on our staff.

Our Insight section also will have:

-- An op-ed written by Bradley Byrne, chancellor of the embattled Alabama two-year college system.
-- Star Publisher H. Brandt Ayers' weekly column.
-- Syndicated columns by Nicholas Kristof and Paul Krugman of The New York Times.
-- And our weekly Bookshelf page.

It's all there Sunday.

An early hint from the editorial department

It's dirty pool here, but I'm gonna tease our Sunday Insight section by not teasing our Sunday Insight section.

A local high school student spent a few days with The Star's editorial department this summer. (How nerdy, right?) Anyway, she had a passion about a certain subject, so we gave her an assignment to write us a long-form essay -- and it rocks.

(Plus, Tosha Jupiter, one of our design whizzes, brainstormed a really cool-looking page. Much better than I would have done.)

Trust me here. You'll like it. Even if you're not a teenager from Saks.

More on this later.

Best-read weekend stories

SUNDAY
Motorcycle repair shop upsets Saks neighbors by Dan Whisenhunt

SATURDAY
Laser shop brings in business from around the world by Cynthia Dizikes

FRIDAY
Father-daughter links: Daughters team with their dads for golf tourney by Anne W. Anderson and Al Muskewitz

A close second on Friday was an editorial - Creating distrust in Oxford