The other day, a friend made a case for reading the national newspapers. He’s pretty sure he gets everything he needs to know.
I subscribe to two national dailies, The New York Times and Washington Post. I also get the weekly edition of the Christian Science Monitor.
But there are some things that interest local and regional newspapers because they interest readers who live in a specific place.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal did a series of stories about dangerous drivers in southern Nevada. We all like to complain about dangerous drivers. But in 2021, Nevada police wrote more than 5,100 tickets for speeds of at least 100 mph.
In that one fact, it seems to me, you get a sense of the place: of a geography where speeds like that are possible and of a culture where speeds like that are common, almost routine.
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