Heard yesterday of rumor that my home town paper, the Detroit Free Press, is going to home delivery for only a few days of the week, Sunday and perhaps a day or two others. [The Detroit News , which I always regarded as second tier, is apparently doing the same].
If there is anything that got me interested in news (and the world around me) it was reading the Free Press in the morning in the public housing project where I grew up. Because of that positive experience, I still read at least two newspapers a day, as well as what I read online (a lot).
The news was especially poignant, since the Free Press had just concluded a year long editorial series on the need for an "urban agenda". A summary of that recommended Urban Agenda appeared just today. (Perhaps because residents depended more on HUD programs, the papers in Detroit always had much better coverage of HUD programs than I see in other papers, including those in Oregon. To be fair, there may have been more scandals, too:).
Following all the recent bad economic news, and the rejection of aid to the automakers, this is a bad time to be a Detroiter, or former Detroiter.
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