I have been, up till a week ago, slammed by an office project. That project is at an end freeing me to work on this at least 3 hours a night. I now have a flex framework to build the news and rebuild the news site with. Clueless over at Planeswalker.com has offered to help out with getting this out as quickly as possible. The most noticeable item is I reskinned the thing again. The first skin roughly half the board hated. The second rushed skin, well I hated it. The third one I like and I think it's the one.
Tomorrow work begins on the news code.