I had a not-very-clever April Fool blog planned, but it is preempted by my need to praise the Killeen Daily Herald and its editorial today.
One of the most important things a local newspaper can do is to focus attention on local problems and issues. Over the 30+ years I've been reading it, KDH has rarely done this. Today they broke the pattern. The editorial points out what people (including but certainly not limited to me) have been saying about the nearly automatic grants the city has traditionally given to third parties: that there needs to be some accountability.
I find this exciting. I hope for more such editorials (and I don't care if I disagree with them: I'll welcome arguing them in either case).
Dare we dream of a day when the local daily newspaper prints more than one non-syndicated editorial a week?
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