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It’s no trade secret that newspapers these days — especially small, hyper-local papers — are having a hard enough time doing their work while making ends meet.

It’s no trade secret that newspapers these days — especially small, hyper-local papers — are having a hard enough time doing their work while making ends meet.

It’s no trade secret that newspapers these days — especially small, hyper-local papers — are having a hard enough time doing their work while making ends meet.

FAFO.

The news out of Kansas last weekend was shocking.

As the owner of a restaurant in the small town of Marion, Kansas, Kari Newell’s allegations against the local newspaper became central to a controversial police raid. Here’s what we know about her.

A controversial police raid on a small-town newspaper in Kansas was carried out with a search warrant to investigate identity theft. The publisher says the paper only looked up a record on a public website.

A prosecutor said Wednesday that the raid on the Marion County Record was not supported by evidence and items will be returned. Read more here.

A strong local newspaper, feisty yet ethical in service to its community, will not be universally loved. For some it will be a valued advertiser and bulletin, a voice for citizens and sometimes, for the powerful and well connected, a hair shirt. One week ago today, an astounding raid against the Marion (Kan.) Record, a weekly paper serving a community smaller than Deming’s, by local police caused an international furor. …