Par35, I'll take a look at the original to see if you even posted on it.....
I did comment. Someone else dug it out. My comment was something along the lines of "Run on local issues."
Defamation suits are a pain, but I can't leave something like this out there. The cheapest course of action for the paper would be to print a quick retraction.
I'm busy for the next couple of weeks, but if they don't get it retracted before then, I'll have to follow up to find out if the paper was misled, in which case I'm sure they will want to set the issue straight, or if they just decided to lie about me for the fun of it.