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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Things started to change back in the early 1970s when The Washington Post and some other publications began sending so-called investigative reporters to Richmond to cover the state legislature. * One day legendary Roanoke Times reporter Mel Carrico and I were standing in the halls of the C^jitol when a certain Post reporter hurried by, presumably looking for political dirt.
“The trouble with Virginia,” Carrico said dryly in his southwestern twangy voice, “there ain’t enough cfooks to go ‘round for all the investigative reporters.” v' jfuffice it to say that the reporter v^to* passed by was Carl Bernstein, Who later when on to Watergate fame a|ter he was returned to Washington for reportedly exceeding an unlimited expense account.
-And while there are probably matiy more investigative reporters in Richmond these days than then (since Nowadays they all think of themselves as Sherlock Holmes-type journalists) what Carrico said in that satirical tone is just as true as ever.
From time to time there are some minor league scandals in Virginia government, but so far they have not even remotely approached some of
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