I used to subscribe to the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Like, the real paper being delivered.

Then they gave us a price cut to switch to digital only. I took that because then I wasn't waiting for the paper to show up, if it ever did.

Finally, I gave up on even the digital edition because they had shrunk down to two or three articles about local news each day. It was easier to get national news from CNN or FoxNews, sports from ESPN, and so on.

But the recent mess with the Keller ISD made me think about local news again. The Dallas Morning News seems to have a lot more local news than the Fort Worth Star Telegram. But it's Dallas centric and I live in Tarrant County.

It's only $1 for four months, but then it's $5 a week (ooof). Yeah, you can cancel anytime, so I could just try for four months.

Anyone else still get the local paper, either via real paper or online? If so, how much does it cost?

We subscribe to the Houston Chronicle online print edition - $3.96 per month.

We have two subscriptions to the Coppell Chronicle substack, Dan Koller is awesome. He just started a Grapevine substack as well if anyone here lives in grapevine. Easily worth the $30/yr cost.

Took the daily paper for nearly 40 years - even in the dorm at A&M. Then one day, I went out to the driveway on a windy morning in Corpus and saw my rolled up paper creeping across the driveway with the wind. That's how little news there was in that paper. The Corpus paper had turned into a liberal rag anyway, and quit carrying Get Fuzzy because it was over most people's heads. I quit it 7 or 8 years ago.

Same here! I loved my morning newspaper. My roommate and I got the Houston Chronicle daily at Hart Hall, and our local county newspapers mailed to us. We could read each other's hometown papers and they were almost identical in content, just a different location.

I used to get the CC Caller Times daily, but Nick (I don't know s**+) Jimenez, Tom Whitehurst and Libby Avrett broke me and the paper. I was holdout, but I was sick of their constant bashing of conservatives and white people. I couldn't take it anymore. I wanted local news, sports scores, local event information, stock show results, stories about civic clubs, not their far left liberal drivel.

I enjoyed the Chicago Sun-Times when I lived up north. It had an amazing sports section.

The Houston Chronicle is garbage now.

I still read the WSJ daily, front to back. But I read the online edition. I do miss a good quality print edition newspaper.

Used to subscribe to the Houston Chronicle however as open minded as I tried to be it did not represent any of my beliefs. Still love the WSJ but it became extremely expensive. Now I read the Fayette County Record which I really like.

I am busily throwing money away subscribing to the Eagle and the Dallas Morning News (electonically) .I keep hoping one of those publications will resort to printing news and not propaganda. I don't think that will ever happen. This may spur me on to eventually cancelling. I'm a Aggie journalism major (class of 79). I worked in that industry for six years but gave it up. I just couldn't do it anymore. I laugh when I read a subscribtion promo for the DMN. It says "Support journalism, subscribe to the Dallas Morning News. The Dallas Morning News (and most newspapers), would not know journalism if they were hit in the head by a 1960's Sunday edition thrown by their delivery person.

And don't get me started by the left winged biased Texas Tribune. It was a good idea at first but the uber liberal Austin faction took it over. Pravda is more conservative.

Three recommendations:

Remove your door bells, unsubscribe from the local paper and unsubscribe from the WSJ.

It took years for the WSJ related junk mail to dry up.

Whitehurst is the $#@&ing worst!

Bellville Times

Had a roommate who got the Hondo Anvil Herald - wow, exciting reading there.

I subscribed to Sunday plus digital for a while, but our paper boy quit delivering. Still charged credit card but did not deliver. After a month of that I never got it again.

We always got the DMN when I was a kid and I kept getting it as an adult, mostly for the sports page. But then 15-20 years ago, the price kept going up while the quality kept going down. Ditched it for good around then.

I dont, but some papers have their e-paper online. I like e-paper because it also includes the ads. Not the coupon type ads or flyers, but the ads that are in the newspapers themselves. Ads actually tell you more about news, on the ground feel and mood than actual news.

The local weekly. I worked for them in college. They also printed our high school paper, which I wrote for a couple of years. Doing all that was a valuable education for me.

Not any more. I shop for the best, cheapest national newspaper (Washington Post at $30/year or LA Times for $52/year), but mostly troll the comments sections.

Not since the Weekly World News stopped its print edition.

The Fort Bend Herald. Formally the Herald Coaster. Got to always check the obituaries to make sure I'm not in there.

Hooterville World Guardian

Claude! said:

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Not since the Weekly World News stopped its print edition.

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Hard to keep up with Bat Boy ever sense.

I worked in the business for 17 years (19 if you count my two years as a paper boy as a kid), and, no, I don't. I got in just as papers were going down hill. The death of the two-newspaper town meant that there was no need for one set of journalists to pretend to be conservative. Also, when the newspapers would fold, the surviving paper would hire a bunch of employees from the loser. There were a bunch of ex-Post employees at the Chronicle, a bunch of ex-Light employees at the Express-News and so on. Some of them were great newspapermen. But a lot of dregs hung on, too.

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Had a roommate who got the Hondo Anvil Herald - wow, exciting reading there.

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A high school classmate and I roomed together and were from that first little town west of Hondo. We called it the weekly wipe errr... white.

But it was the only way to keep up with the local news as long distance phone calls cost too much!

Try to explain long distance call to New Army - no clue.



I live now in the far southeast part of the county. The Devine News was still a good read until the granddaughter of the original owner turned it over to her daughter who changed her hair color almost weekly. I even had it sent to my 4 Aggie daughters when they were in school. No longer- all they do is liberal local politics and some sports where they try to make national celebrities out of coaches and players that can't win even the district title even now and then.

1990Hullaballoo said:

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jwoodmd said:

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Had a roommate who got the Hondo Anvil Herald - wow, exciting reading there.

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A high school classmate and I roomed together and were from that first little town west of Hondo. We called it the weekly wipe errr... white.

But it was the only way to keep up with the local news as long distance phone calls cost too much!

Try to explain long distance call to New Army - no clue.



I live now in the far southeast part of the county. The Devine News was still a good read until the granddaughter of the original owner turned it over to her daughter who changed her hair color almost weekly. I even had it sent to my 4 Aggie daughters when they were in school. No longer- all they do is liberal local politics and some sports where they try to make national celebrities out of coaches and players that can't win even the district title even now and then.

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D'Hanis is a big town - I was even in a wedding there. When we asked how to get to the church, the answer was "turn left" and that was all!

Devine is pretty uptown also!

ETA - yeah, no facetime, and long distance calls. When away from my gf for a month I had a $450 phone bill one month!

If D'Hanis is big to you, I hate to know where you came from I was in a class of 16.

It;s bigger now - even considered one of the LARGE 1A schools!

Smallest school I know had 22 students K-5 with four staff members. Supt, Principal and two teachers.
Superintendent did all of the maintenance, drove a bus and taught 4 classes.

Divide ISD west of Kerrville. Mr. Billy Bacon was the Superintendent I met at a yearly bus training.

Devine has doubled in size since I was in school there and has taken on the "suburb" of San Antonio feel.

I need to find a less populated place to live. Maybe Balmorhea? Terlingua?

1990Hullaballoo said:

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If D'Hanis is big to you, I hate to know where you came from I was in a class of 16.

It;s bigger now - even considered one of the LARGE 1A schools!

Smallest school I know had 22 students K-5 with four staff members. Supt, Principal and two teachers.
Superintendent did all of the maintenance, drove a bus and taught 4 classes.

Divide ISD west of Kerrville. Mr. Billy Bacon was the Superintendent I met at a yearly bus training.

Devine has doubled in size since I was in school there and has taken on the "suburb" of San Antonio feel.

I need to find a less populated place to live. Maybe Balmorhea? Terlingua?

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Umm...calling D'Hanis big was truly sarcasm. I mean back in my day it was one intersection with a blinking red light. That's all it was!

Lot of people I knew from Devine had their parents work in SA even decades ago. I'm sure its even more suburb of SA now. Heck, when I go into SA, the 1604/I-10 interchange was pasture land when I was in school and now it is a spaghetti junction.

Yep. Grandparents moved to Boerne in '79. Only thing between 410 and the 87 exit in Boerne was the Iranian Sheiks' mansions on the hills of what is now The Dominion. Oh and the gravel pit that is now The Rim. Raymond Russell park was WAY out of town.

In San Antonio? Good ****ing God no.

Yes

Some people like to hold the paper, fold the paper, flip the paper... but I can't remember when I last purchased a paper newspaper, much less held a subscription at home. We still get the paper at the office.