I've been playing with some ideas about online news sites for some time now. One day I found myself at New York Observer website, thinking how hard it is for an outsider to get anything out of local news. How about a site that would be targeted to outsiders? It would probably be more entertaining than informative as a daily news site, but would provide an easy to access continuous long-term story for newcomers who would like to learn more about the background of some specific issues or people.  read more »