No More Opinions in the Times Regional Sections

Has anyone else noticed that the New York Times seems to have killed, without a peep from anyone, the editorial, opinion and letters page in its regional weeklies, the Westchester, Long Island, and Connecticut sections (which aren't really individual sections any longer anyway)? Bummer. I know that the reaction I got from the two pieces I wrote -- one about Connecticut and the Clean Water Fund (here), the other about Broadwater (here) -- that it was widely-read and that people paid attention to it.