On This Day | Gone Are the Days Part II

Why We Chose It

This editorial caught my attention for both it’s tone and topic… it was pointed, and at pointed at Minot’s small businesses. Perhaps it was called for, and the call to action at the end — for training — may have been appropriate and needed, but it’s hard to read the editorial turn and not wonder if publishing this was a mistake. Small businesses were the advertisers that kept the presses running. In this piece, the editorial tone turned from — to this reader’s ear — critical and constructive to whine and complain. The next nine years would be marked by many editors before they presses would eventually stop.