Opinion

America started as local news. Local newspapers delivered it.

Two hundred fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia. But America did not become a country only in that room. It became a country as the news moved from community to community. Most colonists did not witness the debates of the Continental Congress. They learned about independence through the newspapers that served their towns and colonies.

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Letter to the Editor

The Citizen Tribune printed an editorial from The London Guardian on May 13, 2026, that stresses a dissenting opinion of Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan saying our Supreme Court is “deeply compromised “ and, if “its decisions are left unchecked will undermine American democracy.

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