News flash: America’s newspapers are ailing.
The date on that item should have been June 10, 2000, or earlier. But the Federal Communications Commission just got around to completing an 18-month study to discover the obvious: there is a whole lot less local reporting going on in the U. S. of A. these days be-cause newspapers don’t have the revenue they once did.
Doing research on Iola in the 1960s makes me very aware of the changes in the Iola business district.
A generation ago, the Iola square boasted at least twice as many businesses as it holds today;…
