$83 subscription for online access to a free local paper is insane.
Check with your local library. They often maintain subscriptions or have an archive of local newpapers.
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| $83 subscription for online access to a free local paper is insane.
If it's anything like our "free" paper, the hardcopy has half the article with the rest on their website.
You just brought me back in time to honors history in highschool where I needed to go to the historical society library and had to use their microfilm to get stuff from an old newspaper.
I wonder if they still have microfilm now, or even put new papers onto it. It seems so archaic nowadays.
I remember a librarian telling me they were slowly moving from microfiche to network storage, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that there's plenty of microfiche left collecting dust.
I don't think new stuff goes to microfiche, and the old stuff has probably mostly been scanned by how and just sits in an archive somewhere.
Of course I'm sure that depends on the size of the library.
Imo it is either a $83/year local paper or a free local newspaper. They can't have it both ways if you ask me.
I got like two thirds through the original post before it clicked what RSO stood for (registered sex offender). Is that a common acronym?
I am annoyed that this comment does not explain what an RSO is.
Registered sex offender
Journalists need to be paid, same as everyone else. Especially in small towns with small resources. These are the kinds of things to support imo.
Check the page in archive.org
All kids are potentially in danger from any stranger, regardless of whether they’re an RSO. Assume there is a danger until proven otherwise.
Sex offender information is public information in most places. The local newspaper is charging you for their journalism and reporting, but their source is free, public information you yourself can access.
You can be placed on the sex offender registry for public urination. RSO doesn’t mean they’re a paedophile. But until proven otherwise, keep a close eye on your kids.
All kids are potentially in danger from any stranger, regardless of whether they’re an RSO. Assume there is a danger until proven otherwise.
Imma stop you there. Stranger Danger is responsible for socially crippling several generations now.
While I get an inkling that pedophilia is probably more common than anyone wants to admit...I also know that statistically, almost all offenses take a pre-established position of trust. Kids getting plucked off the street by strangers is incredibly rare...especially in the day and age of Flock and doorbell cameras...because you know they'd be screaming that from the rooftops every time it happened.
Your eyeballs are unprotected for the printed ads. Your browser needs a couple of plugins and they're gone.
If you can access the article but there's a paywall, you may be able to use ublock origin to block the JavaScript on the page. Firefox's reader mode also works sometimes.