The big city papers left town just over a year ago and I miss it, just not as much as I thought. I had to go to Bartlesville and while I was there I picked up a copy. The price had gone from two to three dollars. This wouldn’t have been so bad if the paper hadn’t been two thirds of its previous size. At least it had the previous night’s sports results which is more than I could say for the Kansas City or Wichita papers. News is supposed to be new, not two or three days old. The overpriced dailies are acting like weeklies.
Speaking of weeklies, the Wilson County Citizen is one now that it has cut back from two editions a week. The issue wasn’t costs as much as finding a press operator. The Citizen was one of the few local papers that printed its own paper. The press operator retired last week and they could not find a replacement. When you don’t print your paper in house, your deadlines get pushed back by up to a day. To pay for the outside printer, the cost of the paper went from 50 cents to a dollar this week. This means the Independence Daily Reporter and Coffeyville Journal are the last papers in the area under a dollar, still 75 cents for now.
Footyfried 