AN APOLOGY is due those of our subscribers who called us this week to report they did not receive last week’s issue. That would have been the paper published August 11. But they did receive it, even though they didn’t know it. Their confusion wasn’t their fault. It was mine.
The contents of our August 11 issue of The Columbia Paper were bundled with the previous issue (August 4) into our Annual Summer Double Issue. It gives us a sort of mini-vacation. We want readers to know about our double issue and we did advertise it in advance with a sizable color notice on the first page of the Events Calendar in the July 28 issue.
The August 4/August 11 Double Issue was 28 pages, which is considerably larger than the papers we’ve been running, and that’s a welcome bit of news at a time when the newspaper industry is struggling with big increases in printing costs and competition from other media, including truly fake news. I even wrote an editorial alerting readers of our of the upcoming double issue. Sad to say, that doesn’t appear to have helped much. Read more…