TEST: The composing stick now takes type and HTML

The desk now takes two kinds of copy. The top box is the newspaper text. The bottom box is HTML, so a filing can carry a hed, a pull quote, and a rule the way a composing stick would, instead of a single dump of plain lines.

What this page is testing

If you can read a gold drop cap, a full-width subhed, a pull quote with a red rule, and a small facts table, the HTML box is live. The pin is Washington. Latitude 38.8950982, longitude −77.0363849. This is a dry-run, not a news story.

Custom press — not a WordPress skin.

Public News Choice desk, Aug. 21, 2026. No outside image. No author URL.