Congrats on launching your site! Now my thoughts... 1. You have no content and presumably just launched, but yet the browsing experience was obnoxiously slow.

Congrats on launching your site! Now my thoughts... 1. You have no content and presumably just launched, but yet the browsing experience was obnoxiously slow. Why? And 2. I don't get it. Why are you using user submitted news for geographical locations? What value does this offer over going to the website for a local paper? Why would you rely on user submitted news for something that could seemingly easily be aggregated? I'd like to strongly echo what the other two posters said - why do I want to use this site? I clicked around, and really couldn't get much of a feel for where you're adding value.