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Sancho

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5. For decades I got the St. Pete Times on my driveway...

Wed Mar 3, 2021, 08:06 AM

Mar 2021

...and I quit subscribing to the paper version about 8 years ago.

Newspapers are replaced now by Yelp, Ebay, Amazon, and even CNN. Why write a letter to the editor when you can tweet?!

The issue for me: Will the development of great writers and investigators will be missing in the next generation? Michael LaForgia, Tom French, Lucy Morgan, Bette Orsini...so many talented authors to even name.

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I should have read your post first! Baitball Blogger Mar 2021 #3

From '83 to 2007 Flo Mingo Mar 2021 #9

You people were amazing. Baitball Blogger Mar 2021 #10

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Wow, it is a small world. TexasTowelie Mar 2021 #12

Was that once called the St. Pete Times? Baitball Blogger Mar 2021 #2

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For decades I got the St. Pete Times on my driveway... Sancho Mar 2021 #5

My bad. Forgot to mention Flo Mingo Mar 2021 #7

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My parents had the Tampa Bay Tribune delivered every day csziggy Mar 2021 #13