I Love That My Library Has a Newspaper

I’m so glad that my local library in Plymouth, Michigan has a free print newspaper that I can support and have mailed to my house. It has lots of local news, along with other fun bits like teenagers reviewing media they enjoy. Living in a suburb means that there really isn’t a local news source, other than the Detroit Free Press I guess, because all the other sources of local news like websites run by one or two folks and Facebook groups generally seem to be right wing and have a strong nimby influence as well. I’m not happy about the digital part being on Substack for many reasons but maybe I can nudge them away from that and towards something like Ghost. At least they offer a print subscription (here you go if you want very local news) where none of the revenue goes to Substack. Even though it’s a Democrat run city, Plymouth has a big nimby problem and even a recent article in the library’s paper about a transit millage was seen by some folks in the local Democrat Facebook group as…