So is this a USA only thing?
Our Patch might publish a town news item or interview every so often, but for the most part it’s the digitalized version of our weekly shopper tabloid. Honestly, I don’t know why either of them bothers to stick around. The only thing the weekly shopper is good for is to find a local contractor or such. Most of them don’t even advertise on our Patch.
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The other thing I wanted to add is that we also have a long-established town newspaper. We also have a regional paper that covers every single municipality within a 40 mile radius. And, of course, the big city papers.
In other words, for an area like ours, having a Patch, IMO, is redundant. I can see it working, however, in less-populated areas where there isn’t a local paper.
AOL thinks that I am still in the place where I originally signed up for them, so when I go to aol.com I get the wrong Patch. If I cared enough to figure out how to change my hometown, it might actually be useful, but not so useful that I will try to.
Oregon-No Patch.
On ours, the ringleader of the anti-education whackos consistently posts comments on stories that have nothing to do with town government, taking swipes at them. They always get deleted within a day or so. And it seems every story about a Town Meeting or Board of Selectmen meeting includes the sentence “Mr. XYZ was escorted from the meeting by police officers.”
What comes after Oregon-No, or am I following 16mo?
I will go with Basilicumo (WTF is Patch)
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