The Nation’s Oldest Newspaper™ • Editor: Steven Fowle • Founded 1756 by Daniel Fowle
When editing a newspaper, one must always strive to give the reader a view of current events that is both accurate and coherent. This is always challenging, but that’s fine. It’s what makes the work rewarding. We do worry, though, that if we continue down our present path, reality itself with lose its coherence. So, click on this link now, to read our latest, before we’re reduced to running outright gibberish.
2025—A federal court orders #47 not to deport anyone under the Alien Enemies Act. He defies the order. Congress lets him get away with it. 2018—Hoping not to get shot like so many of their late peers, a million American students walk out of school to demand gun control that works. 1977—RIP Fannie Lou Hamer, organizer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, who said, “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” 1973—Guards at the notorious Walpole, Mass., State Prison go on strike. For two months inmates run the joint, with zero murders and little violence. 1970—Two merchant sailors mutiny, taking the napalm-laden SS Columbia Eagle to pinkish …