Local Flavors

[Fazor]

I was thinking it might be fun if people wanted to post links to their town/city's local papers (if said papers have a website), to give everyone a feel for the area they hail from.

With web privacy issues and all that, I understand if one doesn't want to give away their exact location, but if you're comfortable with it it could be fun.

Lancaster Eagle Gazette is our publication (note, I don't like the site or the paper, but it does give insight to the area).

[NEOWatcher]

I'm not sure if anyone is really going to follow the links, but what the hey? why not?
Here's our free neighborhood paper.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Here is a link to our town paper.
http://www.stcroixcourier.ca/
but this where most people get their news
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/
got to admit I do read either.

[triplebird]

We have three major papers in the SLC area:

The Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com

The Deseret (Morning) News
http://www.deseretnews.com/

The Salt Lake City Weekly
http://www.slweekly.com/

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The top two are the dailies and are more or less the same content-wise. The Tribune is said to be more independent and middle of the road politically, while the Deseret News tends to the conservative side.

The City Weekly, on the other hand, is an "alternative-weekly" and as such is on the liberal end. It has a very polarized following around here (i.e. people either *love* it or *hate* it; there's little ambivalence.)

[PetersCreek]

If we're talkin' local, local...there's the Alaska Star, covering the Chugiak-Eagle River communities, which includes Peters Creek...sort of.

But we're all within the Municipality (kind-of-a-county) of Anchorage and that makes our leading local paper the Anchorage Daily News. Then there's the Anchorage Press, a very, very small competing rag.

And since we live as close (or closer) to Palmer and Wasilla as to most parts of the city of Anchorage, I might as well throw in the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.

[Fazor]

I'm not sure if anyone is really going to follow the links, but what the hey? why not?

Well, probably not many but I sure find them interesting.

WRT Peter's City Weekly, Lol I just looked down through the main page, but I love it. I wish more papers were around here that had that style, though I couldn't see too many mainstream publications saying some of the things that they do at CW. Fun stuff.

[Jim]

Here is a link to our town paper.
http://www.stcroixcourier.ca/
but this where most people get their news
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/
got to admit I do read either.

Hey, cool! They automatically translated the pages from Canadian to American!

Our local weekly is the Bay Area Citizen (check how our gabage collection service is about to change). It's printed on Wednesday and delivered on Thursday... more usually Friday... sometimes Saturday.

And, of course, there is the Houston Chronicle. It's sad that a city the size of Houston has only one major daily. But, we do have 2-1/8 pages of comics (down from 3-1/2)! When the other daily paper, the Houston Post, folded, the Chron "adopted" its comics; it's been winnowing them down ever since.

[Gillianren]

Here, we have the Olympian and its tendency to announce that any protest in the city is caused by students at The Evergreen State College. They're often, but not always, right.

http://www.theolympian.com

[Fazor]

Here, we have the Olympian and its tendency to announce that any protest in the city is caused by students at The Evergreen State College. They're often, but not always, right.

I'll have to keep an eye on this one, and see if any of the accompanying photographs show you running around with a sharpie correcting the spelling on the picket signs

[chrissy]

heres mine for the north east of england.
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/

[SeanF]

Here's my local paper. I'm not overly fond of it, but it's the only game in town.

[ToSeek]

The Greenbelt News-Review (in PDF format). I assume y'all can find The Washington Post if you want.

[KaiYeves]

I don't read the local papers much, except for a few freebees with lots of humor and local references.

[Halcyon Dayz]

The Gelderlander - Achterhoek Edition, which most of you can't read anyway.

[Maksutov]

Here's the main rag. I usually check the obituaries to see if I'm still alive. The alternative press paper is The Local Voice (note: they don't pull punches re language), a refreshing look at what's really going on. The Eagle tends to read as if it were written by the Chamber of Commerce.

Then there's The Commercial Appeal, which is good for store fliers, coupons, and accurate reports on yesterday's shootings in Memphis.

Of course I always read The Hartford Courant to keep up with what's going on back home.

[Gillianren]

I'll have to keep an eye on this one, and see if any of the accompanying photographs show you running around with a sharpie correcting the spelling on the picket signs

I'd have to post a picture first, wouldn't I?

In all seriousness, though, I spent a few months of my college career carrying around a red Sharpie to correct the spelling and grammar on lengthy and incomprehensible political diatribes posted around campus--and fliers for the kung fu club, that latter because I so desperately loathed its captain, who was also the sports editor on the school paper. He made my life as copy editor very difficult.

[Halcyon Dayz]

Sharpie or sharpy:

1: a long narrow shallow-draft boat with flat or slightly V-shaped bottom and one or two masts each carrying a triangular sail
2 a: sharper
2 b: an exceptionally keen or alert person

[Gillianren]

Sharpie is a brand name for a variety of permanent markers.

[TheOncomingStorm]

Hey, cool! They automatically translated the pages from Canadian to American!

Since the border is meters away from the Couriers office it is kind of mandatory.
I am not as anti american people think I can just be a jack*** at times.

[Maksutov]

Sharpie is a brand name for a variety of permanent markers.

[mfumbesi]

Here is my local paper http://www.pretorianews.co.za/
I don't read it much. I get my news from the internet from herehttp://www.news24.co.za.

[triplebird]

WRT Peter's City Weekly, Lol I just looked down through the main page, but I love it. I wish more papers were around here that had that style, though I couldn't see too many mainstream publications saying some of the things that they do at CW. Fun stuff.

Hey, I posted about the City Weekly, not Peter. Tsk, tsk.

Because CW "[says] some of the things they do" is precisely what leads to the polarization of its followers/detractors here. Especially if (and to what extent) you subscribe to the beliefs of Utah's Favorite Religion^TM...

Here's my local paper [the Argus-Leader]. I'm not overly fond of it, but it's the only game in town.

I liked the A-L when I lived in South Dakota; it was at least better than the local Pierre rag, the Capital Urinal...uh, sorry, Capital Journal .

[Jim]

Here is my local paper http://www.pretorianews.co.za/

Neat! I especially liked this article:
Rory Sabbatini is Golf Digest's 2007 Golfer of the Year. Iqbal Khan disagrees saying, "he does little for golf development in this country and he is hell-bent on being a Texan".

(sigh) Aren't we all?

[Trebuchet]

Port Townsend Leader

I don't actually live there full time. Yet.

[Fazor]

Hey, I posted about the City Weekly, not Peter. Tsk, tsk.

I apologize, and should have realized my err as Utah and Alaska are two very different locals.

Re: Gillian, I didn't mean keep an eye out for you to post a picture, I meant I'd haveta watch the pictures on your local paper's web page.

I can see it now: huge student rally. Riot-squad with shields and teargas at the ready. Then, wait, what's that? Someone feverishly adding the apostrophies to the signs that read "Stop Animal Testing, it^'s unfair!"

[Lianachan]

I never read newspapers, and I don't live in a city or town. However, my most local (though that's stretching the term) paper does carry the name of a famous place:

The John O'Groats Journal

[Gillianren]

Re: Gillian, I didn't mean keep an eye out for you to post a picture, I meant I'd haveta watch the pictures on your local paper's web page.

I'm just saying, how would you know it's me? I can think of several other people in the area who would do that, as well. (Okay, two. And they're both good friends of mine. But still!)

[Fazor]

I'm just saying, how would you know it's me? I can think of several other people in the area who would do that, as well. (Okay, two. And they're both good friends of mine. But still!)

"Aw shucks, I'm just Josh'n ya".

And thanks to all who have been humoring me by responding to this thread; I've had a fun time look'n through the local rag's.

[KaiYeves]

Sharpie is a brand name for a variety of permanent markers.

While playing a backround extra in High School Musical at filmaking camp:
Friend: "Don't you just hate Sharpay?" (A bully character who the camera was focusing on.)
Me: "Don't be so hard on her. It's hard going through life if you're named after a marker."
I've got to dig up the DVD and see if it shows us cracking up in the background.