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The Sunday Editorial pages move as of today to the A section, but if you're reading this in print you already know that and must be wondering why.

The Star is exercising a series of cost-cutting moves that Publisher and Editor John M. Humenik says are his responsibility in light of a slowdown in parts of the economy.

Newspapers across the country are struggling to achieve that balance of growing readership and advertising and controlling expenses.

Star editors created a plan that preserves local reporting and nibbles away at content that readers can find elsewhere. Here's what you can expect in the Star:

● The stand-alone Opinion section with Books as its back page splits up. The Opinion pages move to the back of the A section on Sunday similar to where you find them the other six days of the week. National and international news will not be reduced to accommodate this change, Humenik said.

The Editorial page becomes a right-hand page so that the Opinion page can take advantage of color, which is usually available on the left-hand page. The cover stories and Q&A's with newsmakers will continue. The reader advocate column may appear on an irregular schedule based on what I work out with Editorial Page Editor Ann Brown and her department's reporting plans.

The shift to the A section gives her department a later deadline and an opportunity to update well into Saturday, instead of Friday as had been the case.

● Book news moves to Thursday Accent starting this week. Southern Arizona authors by J.C. Martin will appear monthly in Accent.

● The daily market report, including stock and mutual fund listings, will be consolidated into one page Tuesday through Friday, with expanded listings on Saturdays.

● Accent's Page 3, which focused on entertainment news Monday through Thursdays, will go on hiatus; entertainment news will continue in Accent but not aggregated except on Fridays.

● At Home will be slimmed down by four pages. No feature is being eliminated, said editor Kristen Cook, but not all features will appear weekly.

Readers who use Comcast as their e-mail provider haven't heard from the Star for a while. Seems Comcast, which provides Internet and cable services to subscribers in the county, deems StarNet a spammer and has blocked all mail from addresses that end "@azstarnet.com." That's all Star mailboxes, including those of individual employees. StarNet Editor John Bolton is working with Comcast to let e-mail, newsletters and calendar notices flow freely again between StarNet and Comcast addresses.

Kelle Maslyn, Comcast's corporate affairs manager, e-mailed last week that "I had our IT guy contact your IT guy and I know they are working to resolve the issue."