I wasn't able to post in the original thread about the news section which is why I am starting a new thread.
I like this idea however it would be nice to be able to change the location of where the news section shows up the site. I would rather mine be at the bottom or have a side bar versus having it at the top. Also when I put in an image via html it creates a weird thumbnail of that image and puts it next to the post. This just looks really bad and is totally unnecessary.