I, like Scott and Vivian, have had a love/hate with the Pilot for many years, sometimes referring to it as, “The Virginian-Pravda,” but I hate to see it slowly pass-away. As John points-out, without the paper, important stuff goes unreported. Since retiring from law enforcement, I have become a bit more mellow in my rantings about the Pilot (I’m sure it’s that they’ve gotten better, and not that I have become less stressed-out ), and they usually print my letters when a rant comes along (albeit heavily edited, since only the editorial staff can bloviate).

Count me in on the beer (although I’ll have to do Irish whisky, since I can’t ingest carbonation anymore).

And if you guys are going out to drink beer, I wanna go, too

Vivian J Paige’s last blog post..Women’s Legislative Roundtable Dec 3

My opinion of the Pilot is as wishy washy as the wind and usually based on which column or article I read.

The Pilot is and always has been a good viable (if biased…) news source. I don’t want now nor ever have wanted it to go away.

I have friends that work there, or, have worked there. Reporters, editorialists, photographers…

If the heart of a newspaper could be judged simply on the heart of the people who worked there, the Pilot would have a heart of gold.

Thanks for stopping by John… we really do need to go drink a beer some evening. You name it. I’ll adjust and be there.