Does it make the front page cut?

Mother Nature made it easy for us in at least one respect.

Sure, we all had to battle the elements to get to and from the office on Thursday so we could put out a newspaper for Friday. (There's no such thing as a snow day in the newspaper business).

But because Thursday's snowstorm wiped out the entire slate of local high school athletic contests, our sports section had plenty of room to devote to the big national story of the day - the George Mitchell report on steroid use in professional baseball.