Sorry for the late post. Much of today was spent with a colleague who is leaving the Journal. David Rice is our senior Raleigh correspondent, and he’s moving out of journalism to take a job as a media/government consultant with a Raleigh law firm. A big loss for our paper.
David was a pro in the highest, best sense of the world. He probably knew more about state government—all of state government, including the nitty gritty that nobody knows about—than anybody I’ve ever met. A great memory and mind for detail. A love of bad jokes. A cell phone attached to his ear. A relentless reporter.
Anyway, that’s the circle of life at newspapers and other enterprises. Many newspapers have moved away from coverage of state government. The Journal has moved in the other direction. We expanded our government coverage a few years back. The reason is simple: the decisions that affect our lives, from taxes to education and health-care policy, are made in Raleigh, and state government functions best when an independent press is down there, hanging out in hallways trying to figure out what the politicians are doing with your money and your rights.
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