Hello,
Our site (
http://team.prhsrobotics.com/) is currently using Wordpress as a core system. It used to run on Joomla for a very short time, but a few of us who worked on it decided it was more than we currently needed at the moment. So, we switched to Wordpress, I've worked with it a before and it works nicely to run a site with.
We've got all the static pages as pages (you know: history, our team, about first...etc) and then all our news-like displayed as posts. If you don't have a need for the posting, then you could just redirect to a static-page on the index (which can be done from the admin interface). I can't really think of anything that I don't like about it, mostly anything that isn't with it can easily be found via it's ability to add plugins.
Cheers
-Tanner