Simon Opher MP: Why shopping locally helps our communities thrive

Simon Opher MP: Why shopping locally helps our communities thrive

COLUMN by MP Simon Opher

Local communities need intergenerational problem-solving — and local news can help

If a good newspaper, as the playwright Arthur Miller said, is a “nation talking to itself,” then it follows that a good local news organization must be a town, or a community, doing the same thing. But those conversations are quite different today than when Miller made this observation more than six decades ago. And journalists’ role in the discussion has changed amid a splintered media environment, political polarization, economic uncertainty a…