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Looking Back and Looking Forward
Let us begin with a brief look back, and end with a concise look forward. It’s the only way we can imagine making the middle—the present—tolerable. We are approaching the quarter-century mark for our appearance in this format: a fortnightly tabloid, broadly distributed for free, and available for subscription by First Class mail. We hope to continue in this form… well, basically forever. It works so well for us that a casual observer might think it was arrived at by design. Such was not entirely the case; we found our path mostly by stumbling in the dark. We acquired the legal rights to this newspaper in 1989, thanks to inattention in the offices of the Portsmouth Herald, then owned by the world’s biggest press baron, a Canadian, Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet. The daily Herald and the weekly Gazette had been published in tandem since the turn of the 20th century. Such arrangements have been common in newspapering since the 19th century. Early…