| Feb 28, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI no longer receive my local newspaper, the Austin-American Statesman. Oh, the paper still comes, but it’s just paper, minus the news part — news that our community once counted on to keep up with local government doings, corporate shenanigans, citizen actions, and...
| Oct 26, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThroughout the country, newspaper subscribers are asking questions like: Hey, who took my Saturday paper? What happened to those political cartoons and columns that I liked? Why does it take two days to get election results and sports scores? How did my local paper...
| Jan 19, 2022 | Economy / BusinessRight before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view: Kartoonus Amerikanas. These are the newspaper cartoonists who’ve long delighted readers and infuriated power elites. And there’s nothing natural about their sudden decline. It’s not...
| Nov 30, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA two-panel cartoon I recently saw showed a character with a sign saying: “First they came for the reporters.” In the next panel, his sign says: “We don’t know what happened after that.” It was, of course, a retort to Donald Trump’s campaign to...
| Oct 11, 2017 | Economy / BusinessThese are hard times for America’s gold miners. They’re scrambling to get ahead, but seeing their pay dropping. Take Bob Mercer, who’s been a top miner for years, but last year even Bob was down. He pulled in only $125 million in pay. Can you feel...
