JUST LIKE POLITICS, ALL STORIES CAN BE LOCAL.(Opinion)

Here is where, as the late-House Speaker Tip O'Neill of Massachusetts used to say, all politics is local:

"Wachovia's woes hit area schools."

That was the headline on a story by Times Union reporter Marc Parry in the paper's Capital Region section on Oct. 4. The story focused mainly on The College of Saint Rose and Skidmore College, and their dilemma of big investments in a fund frozen by about-to-be-bought-out, desperately troubled Wachovia bank corporation.

Then there was this, on the same day, on page A5:

"So, how did it go over on Main Street?", a feature by Jimmy Vielkind with the dateline of Clifton Park. The short story focused …