I mostly read the news stuff, and I think what I disliked was the uniform leftism so typical of Canadian regional weeklies, plus all the coverage of local news in a sad town. That's what has me convinced that your columns probably pissed me off, but I do also seem to recall there being one or two gems each on the local and the political fronts, stuff that was original and funny and even, on occasion, cogent. This may have been you... ...Hope this helps! Anyway, nice to see you contributing, and I hope you enjoy it! Daniel11  

 * SCENE was a bi-weekly and its mandate from the publisher was to be a leftish mag (and I'm definitely a political leftie), covering local stuff. It's gone to pieces now  just a bunch of incoherent, irrelevant fluff. Regarding finding the news section occasionally, "cogent," I spent plenty of time ensuring that it was regularly cogent, but each to his own. 

 We (me, really) was writing about the City administration ursurping the power of the politicians 14 months before the Freeps finally came around and finally admitted the truth. Before that they were saying that everything was beautiful at city hall. Apparently they were reluctant to rock the boat too much due to the $300,000-worth of advertising they were getting annually under publisher Les Pyette and City Communications boss Dan McDonald. Then all hell broke loose in 2002-03 with City Manager Linda Reed, Jeff Malpass and George (Hunky) Duncan flying the coop.