A Vermont newspaper publisher is threatening to quit the Associated Press unless he gets some answers on why the agency fired Christopher Graff, the veteran AP bureau chief in the state. And some excerpts from AP boss Tom Curley's response to four politicians over the firing (H/T to Morgan W. Brown).

The Western Standard is asking people to pony up a few bucks to help it fight a complaint launched against it by a Calgary Muslim man over the Danish cartoons it reprinted.