I never know the relative weight of the different news sources. Are these local papers; national heavyweights; local bloggers?

And I would imagine that with a windbag like Hugo F.Y. around, the people in the second and third tiers of government will have developed a way of getting things done regardless of the bluster from the top. Hence Kry's insistence that it doesn't listen to the news to find out what is going on as far as the JV and the permit are concerned.