Our local newspaper has recently gone through a leadership change with a new editor and new publisher, and I have to say that I’m impressed with the changes.

Suffice it to say, when the old guard was in charge, the Journal didn’t bother to cover the good things happening at Sierra College. (I don’t know if it was a written or unwritten rule, but all of our progress at Sierra apparently didn’t fit the editor’s preconceived narrative, and he just ignored the news he didn’t like.)

So I cancelled my subscription and hadn’t bothered to read it more than a handful of times over the last six or seven years.

The new guard seems to be taking a new and constructive approach. Covering both the good news and the bad news. Taking care not to cross the line into demagoguery. Writing good, solid opinion pieces on the side of the public interest.

Today, they published an editorial about the last six years of settlement agreements with public employees. I wrote about this back in November. It’s just wrong that state law tilts the playing field so far against the taxpayers and good stewardship of their money.

The Journal is absolutely right to call for reform in our state’s laws about compensation and employment. Their coverage of this issue shows a real understanding of the facts. So I just followed them on Twitter and I’m going to be a regular reader.

And who knows? They may even get me to subscribe again.