Xavier: For the record, Tess is not a family friend. We have no personal, friend or familial connections. Are you presuming that because of all of my family and friends noted in the story? She talked to all of these people as a journalist: calling them, interviewing them, fact-checking with them. Because that's what good journalists do - at the R-G and everywhere else. Question whether I deserve to be in the paper; I do at times. But please don't question Miss Novotny's motives or professionalism.