We have discovered Newsvine.
This is a social bookmarking site for news stories, apparently run by MSNBC, although you wouldn't know it from the bookmarks.
I may go into information overload. It even has a local news button, so I can see if the new mayor has been indicted yet, and if there's any progress on amassing evidence against his likely successors (indicting mayors is a local obsession, kind of like football).