To help you figure things out, there is a Scoop Admin Guide which can hopefully answer most of your questions.
Some tips:
Most of the layout is changed in "Blocks", found in the admin tools menu
Features can be turned on and off, and configured, in "Site Controls" in the admin tools menu
Stories have an "edit" link right beside the "Full Story" link on an index page, and right beside the "Post a Comment" link on the full story page. They can also be edited by clicking the story title in the "Story List" admin tool
Boxes are what allow you to write new features for Scoop; they require a knowledge of the perl programming language to work with effectively, although you can often make small changes without knowing much perl. If you would like a feature added but cannot program it yourself, ScoopHost does custom Scoop programming as one of its services.
If you aren't sure where to look for a particular feature or piece of display, try the "Search Admin Tools" link in the admin tools menu.
Many if not all of you know of and remember Oct 3rd 2008. It was the day that President Bush signed into law the "$700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout" Bill. However, I'll bet only 1 in 1000 of you really know why that bill was needed and how close we came to the end of Capitalism and the end of our Constitution.
In February of 09 Rep Paul Kanjorski of Penn. went on C-Span and told the world of an event that flew so far under the radar but should have been front page for months. Pay very close attention at the 2:12 mark.
