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You grab your phone, thumb it open, and there it is: a screaming headline about some political firestorm in Washington. Next, a viral video of a school board meltdown three states away. Then a thread of strangers tearing each other apart over a celebrity’s latest screw-up. What you won’t see is the city council vote …
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I caught it last Tuesday. A shouting match broke out at a city council meeting in my hometown of Clearwater, Florida—the kind of messy, local dust-up over zoning laws that used to lead the evening news. But when I grabbed my phone to see how the local press covered it, there was nothing. Instead, my …
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Pull out your phone. Open whatever app you use to catch up on the world. Now count how many posts tell you something about your actual neighborhood — the school board vote last night, the new stop sign on Oak Street, the water main break that’s going to snarl your commute. Unless you live in …
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The Quiet Death of Local News You probably didn’t notice it happening. There was no dramatic sign-off, no final edition wrapped in black. But across the country, local newsrooms have been gutted. Since 2005, the United States has lost more than 2,500 newspapers. Hundreds of counties now have no local news source at all. The …
Remember when the morning paper actually told you something about the place you live? A photo of the robotics team from the high school down the street. A quick recap of the zoning board meeting that nobody attended but everybody should have. Maybe a small story about the pothole on Main Street that finally—after three …
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