“I’ve been here 50 years. The Kensington Outlook has never been better.” – Kensington Resident at KPOA Meeting, 5/1/10
“Excellent job. You took it out of the realm of mimeographed sheets and made it into a newspaper.” – Walt Gilfillan, 6/16/12
“You did a masterful job with the CSD issues – fair, balanced and thorough. The whole town is “abuzz” and thinking differently about the people and issues at hand. They would not be had you not done your research. And your response was targeted perfectly. Factual and unemotional. Very, very nice!
“Thanks for a great job on the last issue. It serves the community well to expose the truth about current KPPCSD board member performance (or lack thereof).” – Andrew Reed, Kensington Resident, 9/8/2011
“Thanks for such an excellent edition of The Outlook. The placement and format for the KIC letter was excellent. Letters to the Editor also excellent. You’re a GEM!” – Gretchen Gillfillan, 9/4/2011
“I want to compliment you on a fantastic Outlook. You really have outdone yourself. Where can I get extra copies?” – John Stein, 9/2/2011
“I just read The Outlook. Well done, in your reporting and your response to Director Metcalf’s letter. And thanks very much for endeavoring.”
– Bill Wright, former KPPCSD President, 9/2/2011
“I just finished reading the Sept. issue. Wow…Thank you for the thorough work you do.” – Lynn Wolter, 8/31/2011
“Joel, just read the Outlook which arrived today . . . Awesome!”– Vida Dorroh, Board Member, Kensington Community Council, 8/31/2011
“Thanks for the July issue-I really think it was top-notch reporting and you did a wonderful service to the community by shining a bright light into some very dingy corners — let the truth fall where it may but it is important to get it out there. You are doing a great community service.”
– Chuck Toombs, KPPCSD President, 7/15/2011
“Investigative reporting is alive and well in Kensington! BRAVO.”
– Vida and Paul Dorroh, 7/1/2011
“Joel, this month’s Outlook was your best ever.”
– Greg Harman, COP/GM, 6/28/2011
“I just wanted to thank you for the little blurb about the WOTY award. You did a better job summing up the whole thing than anyone else to date! Great Job – Thanks!” – Anne Forrest, 3/31/2011 (Outlook Publisher)
“…In fact, you do a nice job with every issue of the Kensington Outlook.”
– Connie Andronico, Kensington resident and benefactor, 3/25/2011
“You have given our community a great insight to how some here think.”
– Chuck Toombs, KPPCSD President, 12/4/2011
“I found the April issue to be one of the most interesting Kensington Outlooks I’ve read.…I am guessing you hold back your love of humor as you write the Police Report, and about half way through your funny bone just breaks its reins. I found your two jokes really funny, while the Report overall was clear and dignified – a good balance. Thank you!”
– Rosalyn Heimberg, Kensington resident, 4/1/2010
“There hasn’t been this kind of meaty reporting in years.”
– Kensington police officer, 2/1/10
“I look forward to your Outlook – it’s always a good read.”
– Nina Harmon, Director, Kensington Fire Department, 1/29/10
“Good of you to be doing a thorough job. Important for folks to know what’s going on.” – Bill Wright, former KPPCSD Director, 1/26/2010
“Been meaning to tell you everyone I run into has such nice positive comments to share about you!” – Alma Key, Outlook Ad Manager, 1/13/10
“Just received today our November issue of the Outlook. GOOD JOB!! We like the format so much. Your Kensington Calendar is easy to read, too. Your editorial is RIGHT ON!!!!!! and important to be expressed. Thanks for your hard work and worthy results.”
– Love, Gretchen L. Gillfillan, 51-year resident
“I look forward to reading it. I set it aside and read it while I’m spinning on my exer-cycle. You’ve really made a difference.”
– Julie Molkenbuhr, 10/18 2009
“Thanks for your support in the Outlook. What would we do without an editor willing to call it like he sees it…You have upheld my faith in the ultimate triumph of the press!” – Linda Lipscomb VP of KIC, 9/9/11
“After John Feld left and Joel started, I was concerned about who we’d be getting as our new editor. He turned out to be the best one yet.”
–Lorraine Osmundson, 50-year+ Kensington resident, 10/16/11
“I am nominating you for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting! Well done!” – Vida Dorroh, Board Member, KCC, 3/28/12
“Thanks so much for the thorough and careful coverage of KPPCSD issues in the most recent Outlook…I particularly appreciated the care you took to spell out, point-by-point, Cathie Kosel’s complaints regarding the promotions. She can hardly say that you failed present her side of the story. Good job!” –– Anthony Knight, 3/30/12
“Your format for April Outlook is wonderful, Joel. I was a “tad” slow on the uptake for 1-2-3 on front page. Very clever! Your reporting of the meeting in all its detail was excellently written.” – Gretchen Gillfillan, 4/2/12
“Comments made at last night’s meeting reminded me of a couple of my favorite Harry Truman quotes: “I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell;” and “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear…Thank you for ‘giving them hell’ and for having a spine.”
– Lynn Wolter, 4/3/12
“Best issue ever! Fair and objective! And you asked the tough questions. Congratulations!” – Greg Harman, GM/COP, 10/1/12
“This month’s edition is outstanding. The questions posed were probing and, even though (Director) Cathie Kosel refused an in-person interview, her answers are quite revealing – especially when juxtaposed with your excellent footnotes…You’ve done a wonderful service to the community by providing important information to the voters.” – Lynn Wolter, 10/2/12
“Allow me to be among the many and hopefully the first to offer my sincere appreciation and congratulations on an excellent October/Election Edition of the Kensington Outlook…Joel Koosed has done an incredible job of factual and detailed issues coverage for our town election.”
– Tony Lloyd, Director, KPPCSD, 10/2/12
“Your reporting and interviews in this last month’s Outlook was absolutely stellar because you really pulled it all together and the truth came to light.” – Officer Doug Wilson, Kensington Police Dept., 10/4/12
“What an issue! By providing good source documents and pithy quotes, you have presented the readers/voters with compelling information.
Thank you for all you do to help keep the community informed.”
– Lynn Wolter, 10/29/12
“I couldn’t wait to get the next Outlook in my mailbox, so I read it online. (What a concept). We are so lucky to have you as the editor! Thank you so much for all of the coverage of recent KPPCSD developments. And thanks for printing (Director) Kosel’s rebuttal too. – Anthony Knight, 10/29/12
“The landslide results are in. It couldn’t have been accomplished without your stalwart efforts in scrupulously investigating and reporting facts, even in the face of threats. Our paper is small, but obviously has a wide reach…Thank you for adhering to the best traditions of investigative journalism, and of course, personal integrity.
“Without (Joel’s) investigative skills, and his refusal to buckle under the strain, the message would not have reached the public as clearly. Of course that is what a newspaper reporter is supposed to do…he research(ed) everything scrupulously…” – Linda Lipscomb, KPPCSD Director, 11/17/12
“You…are among my heroes. With spine, determination, and a thirst for knowledge and the facts, you have played important roles in delivering Kensington from evil. In the face of intimidation, threats, hardball tactics, and malicious lies…you persevered. Many in Kensington and I are most grateful.” – Lynn Wolter, 11/7/12
“I really thought your editorial was just fabulous. You said all kinds of things which were hard to say…Your opening thought about the missing concession speech and the absent director at the meeting was right on the money…The nod to Hausken and Gutierrez was great; and the response to Mabry Benson as well. Thanks so much!” – Anthony Knight, 11/29/12
“You were instrumental in shining a bright light on some very difficult issues and personalities which is what great journalism is all about.”
– Chuck Toombs, KPPCSD Director, 1/4/13
“Just continuing doing the excellent professional job you have been doing.
I couldn’t ask for a more non-biased editor.”
– Tony Lloyd, KPPCSD Director, 3/15/13
“Your article on the KMAC cell phone tower meeting was very well done, well rounded, and balanced. It covered the main thoughts all the way through in a limited amount of space. Well done!”
– Jim Johnson, new Kensington resident, 3/28/13
“I just read the new edition of Outlook. I have to say again what grace you show when responding to Letters to the Editor. I’m not just saying that because I agree with you on every point and you are factual. But I say it because you show restraint (and) poise, and you are just clear and to the point without getting emotional.” – Officer Doug Wilson, KPD, 4/1/13