It's been just about a year since the Eureka Reporter threw in the towel and ended Eureka's five-year newspaper war. In a deal that's never really been explained, the Times-Standard agreed to run the E.R. editorial/opinion page twice a week, Wednesdays and Sundays, putting Peter Hannaford in charge.

A "message for our readers" in the corner of today's E.R. op-ed page indicates it's the last: "We have decided to suspend publication at this time," it says, making the pronouncement somewhat less than definitive. It left this reader wondering: Was the deal for just one year?