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Tony Adams
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Non Profit Status for Newspapers
Last week we made some angel hair pasta with mushrooms. Somehow, it was not very good. We improvised a few ingredients, but in the end we decided to just dispose of the recipe and move on.

I'd clipped the recipe out of The Times, a Lerner neighborhood weekly that went bust a couple of years back. That clipping was like Proust's madeleine for me. Ok, not for my entire life, but it did bring on some serious wistful nostalgia for the era of little independent newspapers. By any reasonable standard it was not a great paper. It was not even very good - but it was the only reliable place to find out about pancake breakfasts and community orchestra auditions and read a pretty complete police blotter for my otherwise neglected by the news media northwest side neighborhood. It was bad, but I miss it.

This week I see some potentially good news: Senator proposes nonprofit status for newspapers posted at the SF Gate.

Stuff like this gives me a shred of hope.

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