Opinion

It’s not traditional, or at least not a recent tradition, for competing publications to critique each other in print. In the glory days of the old Hearst chain, of course, wars between newspapers made life fun for readers. But the Daily Planet is not, as regular readers may have noticed, exactly a traditional community paper. We’re not shy about either praising or blaming other papers when the opportunity presents itself. -more-

Last November, the Daily Planet got a phoned-in tip that six members of the Richmond City Council had taken part in a meeting, “over wine and cheese,” with people the caller identified as “Las Vegas types,” with the subject matter being the possibility of turning Point Molate over to casino gambling interests with Native American connections. The tipster, who identified himself as a rank-and-file environmentalist, said he’d heard a guy talking about the meeting in a bar, and that he loved Point Molate’s natural and historical splendors and was outraged at the idea of putting a casino there. -more-