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Sen. Katie Britt Plays a Cruel Political Game to Exploit a Mexican Rape Victim Mar. 20, 2024
Poor Katie Britt, the Republican senator from Alabama. She was set up by her party's operatives to d... Read More
Abortion-Ban Extremists Are Using a Slave Law to Repress Women Feb. 21, 2024
Here's our big word of the day: Extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting t... Read More
Helping Local News Organizations Stand Up to Big Tech Apr. 18, 2023
In one of the most pleasantly bizarre bipartisan pairings, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesot... Read More
The Monopoly-Go-Round Oct. 19, 2022
A July appeal on the front page of my local newspaper, The Austin American-Statesman, shamelessly sc... Read More
Our Free Press Is on Fire, and No One Can Spare the Water Oct. 14, 2022
Gannett, publisher of USA Today and more than 200 newspapers including the one I work for, just anno... Read More
Democracy Dies in News Deserts Nov. 16, 2021
Claiming territory like a conquering army, a vast desert is on the march. It swallows small towns, s... Read More
Democracy Dies in News Deserts Nov. 16, 2021
Claiming territory like a conquering army, a vast desert is on the march. It swallows small towns, s... Read More
With War Chests, Candidates Can Support Local News Sep. 19, 2020
Viewers tune them out; voters hate them; and researchers call them ineffective. But attack ads conti... Read More
Local News Could Be Coronavirus Casualty Apr. 11, 2020
People are flocking to local newspapers to learn about the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on t... Read More
While National Media Carried Water for Jussie Smollett, Local Media Did It Right Feb. 26, 2019
CHICAGO — The first thing that caused newsman Rafer Weigel to blink when reading the TMZ repor... Read More
All News Is Local Oct. 10, 2017
WEST NEWTON, PA — There used to be 324 newspapers in the state of Pennsylvania. Today, there a... Read More
A Rule for Reporters Mar. 20, 2017
Here is the rule for reporters in as short a form as I can provide. If the focus of your reporting i... Read More
