Hey Scott,
i'm about to try out your News Article module and i found this perhaps buggy behaviour:

I configured the module to allow:

registered user: create
Admins: create & approve

Now, when a registered user creates and publishes an article it is correctly listed for the Admin as an article to be approved. But when the Admin is clicking on the edit link, only an empty form is displayed. No chance to view the article.

Also the author (registered user) has no possibility to edit the article after having clicked on publish (before approval). This might be as designed, though.

Thanks,
Joe