I wish, but it keeps going up in price. And as a consequence, I know NOTHING about local or even state politics/etc…
Around here, at least, libraries have the local newspapers. I often see people reading them there.
I can’t even afford to leave my house, and haven’t left in 6 months or so. I don’t wanna catch COVID, either, so I ger groceries delivered… My car doesn’t even run, and I just keep it in the driveway for safety reasons after getting burglarized, by a neighbor, but of course the police are worthless when you need them, but when you don’t want them around, they’re behind your ass in traffic. I feel like telling one of them, “Do you want me to watch what’s in front of me, or watch your ass riding my ass?”, but that’s another benefit of not driving.
Whoops! Sorry that I misinterpreted the situation.
– In some areas you can call up the library on the phone or email them, and ask for them to deliver items. Some, not all, libraries have a setup to do that; some of the others might have a volunteer willing to do it despite the lack of a standard setup. But I don’t know whether that will work where you are.
Le Monde Diplomatique (in English) monthly, The Guardian weekly, though I wish it was not in the magazine format. Online subs to NYT and Wapo, though they irritate the hell out of me
I’ve been reading the physical Financial Times in the morning, I’m on obviously not looking for breaking news, but they cover so many interesting stories that don’t make the USA news.
Yes, a slim reduction of its former form, bought by Gannett-USA Today family - do most of the the daily 7-day puzzles, read the funnies and obits and garner subjects for Thread Games, Today in History, etc. Hand- thrown into my driveway, sometime before I leave for work at 6:55 a.m.
Oh, it has LOTS of full-page ads and last week they stopped publishing the state lottery results, referring readers (for 7-10 days) to the competition (online)!
The only rag in the far north is a Murdoch rag, and I refuse to support it or him in any way. All my news is online now.
For most of my adult life I’ve subscribed to the print edition of the local paper, regional paper and the Wall Street Journal. It’s in my blood I guess. Growing up in the Chicago area in the 60’s, my father would come home from work at the Steel Mill (3-11 shift) take his greasy work shirt off and read the Sun-Times while drinking his beer. Note, most of my newsreading is in the morning with coffee.
3-11 am or pm?
We buy a few newspapers to read in an average week, mostly to read during our regular Friday Tex-Mex adventure. The format is much preferable to squinting at a phone or laptop screen while trying not to spill salsa or grease on it or worse, into the keyboard.
We gave up subscribing to paper delivery a year ago, because the delivery person couldn’t handle the slightest trace of winter weather.
I wonder if they’ve moved your paper’s printing to a different facility in a different city; my hometown paper is also a Gannett paper, and as I noted upthread, they closed their in-town printing facility, and consolidated production of the paper at another Gannett paper’s presses, 30 miles away.
As a result, they are now putting “my” paper to bed at like 5pm, and nothing that happens later than that (including lottery drawings) are included in the next day’s paper.
Awhile back the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch shut down its local printing operation and now has the paper printed in Indianapolis.
You can imagine how that affected inclusion of late-breaking news.
Dang; I know that drive well, as I go to Columbus (from Chicago) every year for Origins. That’s a three-hour drive. No news will be fresh at that point. 
Same here, except Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer. At least when I started doing it this way, it was cheaper to take Sunday plus on-line than on-line alone. I have mixed feelings about what seems to me the paper’s left-wing slant, and may drop it when we move closer to Wilmington Delaware, as we probably will sometime next year. Right-wingers falsely say that a lot of papers are highly biased, but they might be correct about this one.
I have a New York Times digital subscription. It is still an outstanding newspaper — and still has a wide range of opinion articles — but I might drop it if I was the only person in the family reading it.
The final paper we subscribe to, on-line, is my favorite, the Washington Post.
P.S. The local suburban weekly here is out of business, but I will take one when we move, if available.
We were getting the Oregonian every day when we first moved here. Then they started cutting back and we were getting it Wednesday, Fri, Sat, and Sunday. But the price kept going up until it just got ridiculous, so we’ve cut back to just Wed and Sunday, and we have an online subscription. I don’t read the damn thing anyway, so it’s a waste to me, but my wife likes to support the written word. I read the NYT online and the Anchorage paper.
Paper newspapers are now out of date, that way, whereever printed.
Philadelphia newspapers used to have many editions a day, with news commonly at the 7-11 two hours or so after it happened. The afternoon paper first edition was around lunchtime, and the morning paper first edition came out, I think, around 6 PM.
The last Inquirer extra was for 9/11. Web search says it was on the street at 1PM.
Do any of them still have capability to produce extras?
Yes, the local print location had been shut down years ago and moved 100 miles away, to Fayetteville, NC, then more recently acquired by Gannett. The paper had been owned by the NYT for several years with its own print facility on I-95 in NC.
I would read a paper newspaper for local stories if it were still available. It’s not. For national politics or major stories news stations, radio or digital news sites overlap with each other so having a print paper doesn’t really add anything. Maybe for historically significant news I may buy a paper to keep. I did that when Obama won the 2008 election.