Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

So, be honest, what does National Newspaper Week mean to you?

If you are like most people, the answer is simple, “Not a damn thing.”

And I won’t lie, when I got all of the emails and downloadable columns, cartoons and ads from the Illinois Press Association, I ignored it for more than a few days.

Part of the reason was that it’s a lot easier telling other people’s stories than your own. And along that same line of thinking – you, the person reading this column right now – are a subscriber to Village Voices, or at least picked it up at one of our rack boxes. So you apprecia...