Yea - I know people are worn out from the constant struggle but this is just a REMEMBER? thing - let's not let people forget.
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Remember the Columbus Pioneer? That good newspaper that Cbus had for like 2 months? I wrote for them (unpaid) and shared a beer with Joe Morey at the Kurth. He really liked Columbus but it seemed no one liked buying advertising in his newspaper. We felt it was because businesses felt by buying advertising in the Pioneer they were putting Paul out of business with the Columbus Journal and Gutter Gussie would have no where to post 2 pages of the all important bowling scores or pictures of people handing checks over to other people.
So Joe who spent $20,000 was leaking money like a sieve. People LOVED the real newspaper and it was selling well, but in newspapers it's all about advertising. Even the Hospital refused to spend one dime on the Pioneer.
So after Joe's wife had a baby they had no more money and left town.
Of course everybody was running around with their hands in the air screaming SCAM SCAM I LOST MY $32 to a SCAMMER. Good God it was embarrassing listening to that simple minded crap. Thirty Two Dollars and they decided to get lawyers involved to get their money back. Really? You know who is going to get money? Lawyers!
He filed bankruptcy so no one got their precious $32 back.
Well he is trying to start a new paper up in Wausau (which happens to be where my beer is at in a competition) and he is getting some flak.
Here is the newsy on FOX news.
Fox News Wausau
Joe- good luck to you up there - you had a pretty darn good paper.
Rod
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