Burnt Orange Report

State of the Blog

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

Good morning readers.

As we have undergone these transitions in ownership I would like congratulate the Burnt Orange People for their cooperation and unwavering commitment to us. It's Hard Work being in the position I am, but I welcome it because together we will build a better, safer, freer blog.

Unfortunately, some things have not gone quite as planned. Certain target dates were not always met, and certain missions were not accomplished when we thought they were. But we do have some things to be proud of. Elections, though delayed, are now complete in the first free referendum Burnt Orange Reporters have participated in to elect a new set of writers.

There are challenges ahead but we will make it through with perseverance. Our newly elected writers will enjoy a new website within the next two weeks. Our planned withdrawal from the old site has been delayed due to unforeseen infrastructure problems that occurred in implementing the new one. We have a special operations tech man on the job who was given a no-bid contract by myself. He has agreed with me, that the direction in which we were headed was fraught with bugs and PHP peril. I may have to borrow some funds against expected revenues for the short term, but it is an investment we must afford to pay if we are all to benefit from a new, more stable Burnt Orange Report.

I ask you to bear with us and soldier on as we have been for just a couple more weeks.

Good day. And may the power of the Internet be with you.

P.S. Please join me in welcoming our new recruits.