My Home-Town Newspaper

…is cutting back to three days a week, with a lot of layoffs and pay reductions. Same thing with Saginaw and Bay City. The Flint Journal has been around for many decades, going back to the nineteenth century, before the auto industry existed, but it looks like it’s on its last legs, as Michigan’s economy continues to swirl down the drain. A good friend of mine from college is an editor there. Hope she has a parachute.