Mike McInally

A month or so ago, I told our Web wizard, Travis Clark, that I wanted to launch a blog that I hoped would open a conversation about all things Gazette-Times — our news pages, our editorial pages, the sports coverage, our comics, the advertising, wet papers delivered to your doorstep, anything and everything G-T related.

Travis is a lot more efficient than I am — he was ready to go in a week. I lagged behind. And so my blog shell has been up on our site for weeks, promising that I would start posting “soon.” Readers started posting comments before I did: “Define ’soon’,” one reader wrote.

OK: “Soon” finally starts “now.” Sorry it’s taken me this long.

Here’s what I hope happens in this spot: My aim is to offer information and reflections — and to solicit your opinions — about the increasingly tricky business of producing a daily newspaper in Corvallis, Ore., in the early days of the 21st century. One of the wonderful things about the Internet, it seems to me, is how it gives institutions like newspapers a chance to be more transparent to our customers, to help explain the decisions we make (both the good ones and the bad ones), to solicit opinions about how we can better fulfill our mission. In my two years plus in Corvallis, I’ve found that this town has no shortage of opinions. That’s a good thing. I want to see a lot of those opinions here.

So let’s begin.    

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