Sure, so this is coming from a guy who builds transactional web systems and websites for a bank, although I'm a "user experience" guy, rather than an "IT" guy.
I'm looking at your editorial page and I notice that all the text slams up really hard against the margins, as does the text in the "teaser" column to the right. The yellow column to the left appears to have more space.
The overall effect is of crowding and claustrophobia, and that makes the page more difficult to read than necesssary. If you can push the edges of the text away from the borders by (<cellpadding> or any method) another three or four pixels on all sides, you'll have a much more attractive page.
I would also split the 2nd and 4th paragraphs, as large blocks of text lower general readability.
And while I'm here, your body text is TNR font and your outer columns look like an Arial or similar, so you're mixing serif and sans serif fonts on the one page. Again, it just makes it look a little scrappy. Personally I hate TNR font, so I notice it wherever I see it. I don't think it looks good on the web, but that's a personal opinion.
And one more thing... perhaps a border of sorts around your picture.. see you have whitespace to the left but none on top where it bleeds into the menu structure, and your menu bar is the same colour as the picture (black) at the top, so it lacks definition.
Did I say, just one more thing...here's another one.. your title - there are a couple of issues here - it loses definition because it's bent over two lines - if it were me, I'd move the picture down and put the title right across the top, which solves the border thing I mentioned in the last paragraph. If you don't want to do that, then centre justify the title and it'll be easier to read.
My opinion, and $3.00, will get you a coffee of course, so entirely up to you.
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If so, I applaud you for it, man. 
