I agree that it is a problem in that nobody else has really picked up the ball to cover what your local school boards and town councils are up to. They have the power to tax, which is the power to destroy. And they are manned, as George Carlin wisely observed, by people whose darkest secrets prevent them from seeking higher office. With no eyeballs on them I suspect the level of mischief will get cranked-up from an 8 to an 11.
But I don’t know what the answer is. Certainly not public subsidies for newspapers, which is something many articles like this are arguing for.
That is the problem with our once weekly local paper, they report Left Wing crap at the local level. They went whole hog on supporting a Gravel Pit on a main road the town has a hard enough time keeping up. Half a dozen jobs or so. Never mind the fact 1 public and 1 private school are on this road. UPS, USPS use it heavily, it’s curvy, slow speed as a result 30-45 mph, damage to the road, tires, windshields, danger to the school buses and kids, or the resident stepping into the road to collect their mail.
We have tarp laws they’d ignore, or the gravel would bounce out of the holes in the trucks that hog the 2 lane road and go flying into windshields. They don’t want to pay to have fixed, no assurances they’d keep the road fixed. Got defeated on the ballot thankfully as enough citizens were intelligent enough to understand what a gravel pit and all those dump trucks would do to their cars and to the road.
I agree that it is a problem in that nobody else has really picked up the ball to cover what your local school boards and town councils are up to.
Anybody can create a Facebook group. This group can be on any subject.
My small town has four or five groups.
One is for yard sales.
One if for local history
One if for complaints and items of community interest
Plus the fire and police department each have a group.
(I get weekly reports of fires and crime from them)
The city itself has a group where they post their meetings
Almost all the functions a newspaper performed for the local community is being covered.
And I don’t care if you don’t like facebook or have never signed on. That is your right. Good for you. I am happy for you. I will however ignore all your comments on how evil facebook is.