The end of an era as Tampa Bay Times plant prints its final papers

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13. My parents had the Tampa Bay Tribune delivered every day

So I grew up reading it for the "big city" newspaper. Our local rag, the Polk County Democrat was only published twice a week back then and was mostly local gossip. The Lakeland Ledger was slightly more cosmopolitan, but did not have the scope of the Tribune.

When I spent a year in college in St. Petersburg, I subscribed to the St. Pete Times which delivered to the college campus and liked it better than the Tribune. Then when I was in college up here in Tallahassee, the Times delivered to the dorms so I got a subscription until I moved off campus.

The Tallahassee Democrat was (and still is) useless unless you wanted to follow college sports - they never even sent their own reporters to the state capitol to cover the state news, though they did have a reporter to cover city and county politics. Both my husband and I worked for the Democrat for short periods and we will never subscribe to it.

I still tend to read the Tampa Bay Times online - I guess I should subscribe to help support a good newspaper, even if I can't get it delivered.