In my last blog I discussed the federally mandated switch from flashing red to flashing yellow traffic signals.

I challenged you to read the original story, which ran Sunday, May 22 and draw some conclusions of your own. Then, compare them to the analysis The Oakland Press did in its editorial.

The date that this editorial is scheduled to run is Thursday, June 2. Even though this is only two days away, I have to caution you that this is a tentative date.
One aspect of the Opinion Page is that sometimes we have to substitute scheduled editorials for last minute ones because of breaking news.

For example, last week we substituted an editorial on Thursday, May 26, about Gov. Rick Snyder’s tax plan because the governor signed it on Wednesday, May 25. His signing of the bill into law was the current news event that prompted the editorial.
Also last week, we substituted the originally scheduled editorial for Friday to discuss the Chrysler Corporation’s repayment of its government loans.

As with any good organization, we plan our editorials ahead of time but being in the news gathering business, we have to be flexible to accommodate breaking news.
Last week’s two substitute editorials were unusual. Normally, we have one a week and of course some weeks, we can plan a head and not make any changes.

But it doesn’t matter. The most important thing is to get you the news and editorial comments in as timely a fashion as possible.