The good news: LocalNewsDaily.com and Pamplin's other papers now have RSS feeds--not just for the sites as a whole, but also for specific sections. This is very good news; RSS feed availability means you know you're in the information business, not the TV business or the newspaper business or the radio business.
The bad news: The only one I've found that's currently working is Phil Stanford's.
But. They just rolled these out. I expect they'll be tweaking them toot sweet. Check OMI's aggregator for a wide selection of local feeds, including the new Pamplin ones.
UPDATE: I may have found the problem. Strangely, it may be one of case, and I say strangely because usually case doesn't matter in web addresses. The broken feed items are structured like so:
http://www.portlandtribune.com/News/story.php?story_id=11593127841725740...
...which, if you click, will give you a 404 as of this writing. But THIS:
http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=11593127841725740...
works, and correctly goes to the story identified in the feed. The only difference is in the case of the letter "N" in "news." So this should be a quick fix for the Trib webmaster.
UPDATE 2: And indeed it was a quick fix; not 15 minutes after I told the webmaster the problem he wrote back and said it was a mistake he introduced whilst tinkering with the code. I wish I could say that had never happened to me. All fixed now.
Yay! More RSS!
I'm still getting the errors. Maybe it will resolve over time?
Wanted to read that Saxton scandal article!
Just a viewer,
Rick