Renzetti references Nanaimo's Daily News; it won an award for quality reporting several years ago. In Nanaimo we need a local paper to hold our local politicians accountable; we have one of the most toxic local government environments imaginable. We recently voted down a new 5000+ seat arena called the Nanaimo Events Center. The vote was 80% against it; in reality it was a non-confidence vote in council. A local paper would assign one or two reporters to city hall, flesh out this story and then stick with it until it appeared to have an ending. A happy ending would be for some of the council to resign. This is what we miss about the loss of our local paper. Loss of accountability. Frankly I am surprised why none of the larger papers hasn't picked up up the local shenanigans, obtained access to information to get real insight into the toxic politics, and exposed it. But I guess they have had their budgets cut deeply and cannot afford it either.