We discussed four great articles this morning, and ultimately chose to recommend this as the one thing you should read this week if you don’t read anything else:
What Happens to Democracy When Local Journalism Dries Up?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/30/margaret-sullivan-the-local-news-crisis/
[our copy here]
Support for local journalism has increasingly been a focus of our Short Read of the Week meetings, but we would appreciate your suggestions about other ways we could begin helping to address this problem.
We also chose to recommend this:
Acting locally, thinking globally: Young farmers updates from COP26
https://www.youngfarmers.org/2021/11/updates-from-cop26/
[our copy here]
We need these young farmers in the Tillamook County Democratic Party! Please help us find them and encourage them to get involved.