Newspaper Closures News Today

The Los Angeles Times’ fight for its life has galvanized our legislators to introduce two news rescue bills. We urge state Sens. Steve Glazer and Tom Umberg and Assemblymember Buffy

Politicians and senior administrators want nothing more than a public that has no way to keep an eye on them.

For many years, our major towns and cities could rely on daily newspapers to perform the public service of reporting on important events and playing a watchdog role over the local city or provincial government.