At the weekend I mentioned the coming closure of the Lordsburg Liberal in New Mexico. That prompted an email from the paper's former publisher, Jason Watkins, who is obviously an extraordinary young man. He was just 20 when he bought the paper in 2000, becoming America's youngest press publisher, and then sold it in 2002 to MediaNews group, so that he could finish his education.
Anyway, the now 26-year-old Watkins pleaded in today's final issue of the Liberal for the title to continue, urging the company to reconsider its decision to drop the name, or to allow a rival to use the title. "That way," he writes, "our children and grandchildren can read the same Liberal our parents and grandparents read."
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