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Kilgore

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1. Newsprint was once made in the US and was plentiful and cheap.

Reply to summer_in_TX (Original post)

Fri Jun 15, 2018, 10:33 PM

Jun 2018

One of the pressures on US mills was even cheaper Canadian newsprint.

Here is an example of a Newsprint mill in Oregon that can produce the needed product but it in mothballs. There also hundreds of good paying union jobs that could be filled. The former staff just needs to be called back and the mill restarted.

Remember, there are two sides to every story and tariff.

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Tariffs on Canadian paper pose an existential threat to community newspapers .... [View all] summer_in_TX Jun 2018 OP

Newsprint was once made in the US and was plentiful and cheap. Kilgore Jun 2018 #1

Control the message also. Union jobs, a no go. Iliyah Jun 2018 #2

The real reason most of these Mills closed was this, Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #3

Well Iliyah Jun 2018 #4

So true,seems our Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #5

Good feedback! summer_in_TX Jun 2018 #6