And just to be helpful to those who haven't heard yet, here's the workaround fix for posting stories on the News page.
I don't think Strutz will mind me offering the instructions she gave me after one of my news posting flubs:
$1:
Please go to the article on the home page and click on the comment button. You will see "edit". Click on that and it will take you to a page where you can edit the link address. Remove the extra "https//" and click on edit link. Then it will work for others to be able to open the article.