Multiple readers have pointed me to the "Around the Nation" wire briefs on Page A2 of today's print edition. The three items concern:

* Former U.S. Rep Jesse Jackson Jr.'s guilty plea in charges of wrongly spending campaign funds

* Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's not guilty plea to accepting bribes and gifts for awarding city contracts

* Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici's disclosing that he fathered the daughter of a Senate colleague

The readers' objection was the the wire items identified Domenici as a Republican, but neither Jackson nor Nagin as Democrats.

This morning, a caller pointed me to a story on a major national news source's website about the explosion that leveled JJ's restaurant near the Country Club Plaze late yesterday afternoon.

"This (site) says they think a car hit a gas line and that's what blew up," she said. "Why isn't The Star up with that information too? I think that's important."

I receive a lot of story ideas, for events serious and frivolous. I'm always happy to pass them along to the newsroom for consideration. Many good stories have been originally pitched by readers at my lines.

My column on the furious reaction to Lee Judge's Feb. 9 cartoon is here. It'll be in print on Monday. I'd like to go into a bit more depth here, without the constraints of newsprint space.

Before getting to the content of the objections, there are two things I have to lay out plainly.

An editorial cartoon by The Star's Lee Judge went viral overnight, and the response has been absolutely huge. In fact, this is the most reaction to a single item in the paper that I've seen for some time. The cartoon is also running in other papers around the country, along with countless shares online.

A reader called me to express her irritation that a post on the Midwest Voices blog ran without a byline.

"Shouldn't these people putting out their opinions also put their names on them?" she asked.

Absolutely. And this time, it turns out it was a technical error. The blog post in question was never meant to be anonymous. It is by contributing Midwest Voices columnist Carol Ayers. It's now been fixed.

Readers often point out to me when they think their own party is getting too much scrutiny, or the other side of the aisle is getting off easy in The Star. But here's one who doesn't seem to have a dog in the fight when it comes to the major parties:

"I noticed that you did a fact checker for the Obama (State of the Union address). Why did you not do one for the two Republican responses? They were both basically non-factual."

A reader was extremely agitated at the design of today's Page A1. The editors' priorities in choosing items to highlight "just stink," she said.

She very much approved of the large photo and story about Pope Benedict XVI at the top of the page. That was the no-brainer topic to lead the paper, of course. It was further down the page that she took exception to.

A caller today noted that coverage of the Grammy Awards identifies the band Fun as the winner of the trophies for Best New Artist and Song of the Year. But that isn't right, according to my caller.

"Look it up. They spell their name with all lower-case and with a period at the end. The Star misspelled it."

Sometimes three innocuous little letters can convey meaning to a reader, even if the writer didn't intend it that way.

That's what emailer Dale E. Coy pointed out to me in a story today about President Barack Obama's choice of Sally Jewell as secretary of the interior. A longer version of the print edition's story is here.