Hopefully by the morning Scott Woodham will comment on here and explain why . My guess is they fear there will be anti-native comments and they don't want to upset those people.  Just like they did when Wolhforth did the story on the gay native lady---they were afraid of what people might say.   The new system seems to be working pretty good , though for reasons only known to them , liberals want free speech banned  and / or deleted if the person making the comment is against what they believe in.  The Dispatch needs to choose----do they want free speech or not ?  Allowing no comments on certain stories is censorship , pure and simple.   Since the new system started , the Dispatch has had perhaps three to four times more people taking the time to comment on stories . One would think the Dispatch would be happy about that. You'd think they'd trust the commenters to pass the civil test , but instead just shut it down .