i have noticed that too.  stories that get very passionate sometimes just show up with no comments and no place for them and good for you for being proactive!  it can't be easy to sit in the hot seat at the RG as these comments gets made.  i know at least one RG writer scans the comments as she joins to "clarify" at times - which i really welcome. i wish there was more interaction between their desks and this forum.  but it is time for the paper to do or die.  the community is becoming more sophisticated than the paper ...which does have limited resources.  but struggling to stay alive as paper sales fall, newspapers are really beefing up their on line presence but the RG doesn't seem to get it.  the paper was pretty good there for awhile but now is staid and stale. as i've mentioned several times the headlines used to be very good.  they were clear as to what the story was, but using language or sentence structure it would suggest a double meaning. it was clever.  downhill from there.