A helpful postcard from Sen. Orrin Hatch arrived the other day. The topic: the upcoming transition to digital television. Hatch wrote to let all Utahns know that he's asked his staff to set up a series of free seminars to help constituents understand what’s going to happen with television. Granted, next February's switch from analog to digital TV broadcasting is a big undertaking and one that's bound to chap the hides of a bunch of folks who have no idea what’s coming.

I was just sitting here at my computer when word came that Stacy had died. Even worse, she had died a year ago but I just found out. Stacy was already living in Washington, D.C., when I got sent there in 1991. I was to follow in her, and others’, footsteps as a Scoville Peace Fellow, working for an arms control group while the fellowship paid my salary. Stacy helped with orienting me when I flew to Washington for my interview and later when I arrived to settle in for my