Have to agree echeese. All three made their living off having a lot of sources in the Mack administration or through BMDs, which Mack always kept in the loop.
Right now Strong has kept this tight lipped and since most of the staff is new, there has not been and inside connections yet. That will probably change once things get going. Right now there is too much fluidity to really lock down a source with real information.
The community aspect has become both what I love and hate about those sites. I have been on OB for 11 years and it was really good back in the day. The main reason I stayed around despite the inmates running the prison, was that community feel still. However that is getting less and less as good posters leave and/or get run off by the mob.
It used to be that I would go to OB primarily and the other sites to check on stuff. Now I come here and use OB and others to check on things.