I’m technically on vacation for a week, starting today, though I expect I’ll be checking in and posting from time to time while I’m “away.” Don’t mess things up too much in my absence.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...