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Gov Perry on Homeland Security grant

Gov “McDreamy” Perry is not pleased with the state’s latest Homeland Security Grant.

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry today released the following statement upon learning that Texas has been awarded $90 million in federal homeland security dollars, $39 million less than what it received last year.
“I am dismayed that Texas which shares a 1,200 mile porous border with Mexico would see a 31 percent reduction in funding for homeland security. It appears the federal government has given little consideration to our international border, which is viewed as a prime point of entry by terrorist organizations, drug traffickers and criminal gangs.
“The same federal government that short-changed Texas today continues to release illegal immigrants onto our streets because it has yet to build sufficient detention space. Continuing federal inaction jeopardizes our security, and this funding disparity will only make matters worse.”

Local is the key

Many studies have said that newspapers need to cover more local news. But which local?

It’s becoming a truism these days that “local” is the core value proposition for newspapers.
The reasoning goes like this: With tons of national and international news and other non-local content available free online, “local” is the one thing a local newspaper can do better than anyone else.
Which is true – but newspaper circulation keeps dropping, so apparently we’re not doing it well enough. Either we aren’t doing enough “local” or we’re not doing the right “local,” because more and more people are getting along fine without it.
So the multi-billion-dollar question for the newspaper industry seems to be, “What’s the right local content?”