An emailer this morning asked a question I've heard discussed many times, from both sides of the aisle:

"In one of (The Star's) blogs today they referred to the president as 'Mr. Obama.' And while I've noted this before, usually with Fox News, I took this as a sign of disrespect. But with its arrival in (The Star) I was wondering if replacing 'President' with 'Mr.' is indeed correct."

UPDATE: I spoke to the reporter, who tells me she was in touch with the family. They told her the father's Facebook posts were what he wanted to be made public. But this reader's core point still stands and is valid. Original post:

An interesting and compassionate note from reader Pam Smith today:

The lead story in today's paper is about federal charges against two Kansas City, Kan., men accused of taking part in a multi-state dogfighting ring. One sentence in the published version is unclear about an important detail.

It read, "Staff from Wayside Waifs in Kansas City and Great Plains SPCA in Merriam are helping to shelter the animals." A representative from the ASPCA contacted The Star because she was concerned that gave the impression that these two shelters were keeping the dogs in their own facilities.

An emailer just now made a good point about the online headline on a story about a home invasion overnight: "Four shot, one dead, in Brookside home invasion."

"While Brookside does not have official boarders, the northern boarder of the area is generally viewed as the northern edge of the 64113 zip code (55th Street)," he wrote.

This one's a little complex. A recent story in the 913 news magazine talked to the owners of a business called The Bar Method, where they teach fitness classes using a piece of equipment that's called a ballet barre. However, the name of the business uses "Bar."

A cut-off Jumble and Word Gamer earlier this month, and a missing Sudoku today. Puzzlers must be feeling beaten up right now.

Today's Sudoku and the Tuesday answer key was inadvertently omitted from today's Star. You can get a downloadable PDF version here, and I'm working on where to run it in tomorrow's paper. Check Page A2 or A3 for the puzzle or a pointer to it.

A good question on one reader's mind this morning:

"I'm not completely sure how I feel about it, but I wonder if (The Star) should have put this man who jumped up on stage and started cursing and tearing things up while the mayor was speaking on the front page today."

A caller just now told me she's certain both crossword puzzles in today's print edition have run before in recent weeks.

I'm not saying I don't believe her, because readers catch most of The Star's errors. But if there really were such a massive mistake in the puzzles, I can't imagine I would only be hearing about it at 10:40 a.m. When there's a minor issue with one of them (and especially in the crosswords), I normally hear from dozens and dozens of eagle-eyed puzzlers as soon as I open my email and turn on my phone.

We're all idiosyncratic about language in our own way, and something that hits one person as odd may sound totally normal to another. What about this one?

A caller today thinks a word in a story over the weekend about a car accident should have been changed.

"It says the victim was 'seriously wounded,' but that sounds wrong to me. When I hear 'wounded' I think of a weapon. Shouldn't it have been 'injured?'"

The summer camp guide that ran in the FYI section last week wasn't comprehensive. It didn't have information for camps from Rockhurst High School or the Kansas City Art Institute. The full guide is here, and here are those two institutions' programs:

Rockhurst High School

ACADEMIC CAMPS