I used to subscribe to both papers for decades. Then I saw the trend in both papers to go from reporting the news in a fair and balanced informational format to (for instance) pandering to the concept of it being “ok” and sympathetic to illegals from Mexico crossing the border to come to America.

As a tax paying blue collar person I experienced the illegals undercuting the wage base so many of my co-workers who could not continue in the trades that had allowed them to buy homes, send kids to higher education and keep money in our economy to support all of our lifestyles…So the illegals cause the wages for the trades to be held artificially low that the Americans cannot continue the careers in trades. Illegals send their money back to Mexico, many work under the radar for cash, thus don’t pay taxes, yet send their kids to American schools and then use the emergency room resources…

College degreed people like yourselves in professional jobs think you are insulated from this so maybe you are unaware of the facts the Americans working for a paycheck see as a reality challenging our financial existance. We precieve this as a major challenge to our livelihoods and quality of life that your position chooses to ignore or you instead elevate the illegals “plight” over the working man’s “plight” and you rationalize them over US because they come from such a horrible 3rd world country.

Guess what, I see this invasion of America as being part of our current economic breakdown. Why? One of my co-workers saw illegals purchase in her neighborhood, thus helping to drive up prices, then walk away after the construction boom died-due to no equity down loans-thus crushing that neighborhood’s real estate value. Or how about my Denver General nurse clients that told me about the financial crisis there was partly due to the illegals using the resources of the emergeny room and then giving false information upon being asked to set up payment plans on their way out. Or how about my friends that started working out of high school 20 years ago at the meat packing plant for $14 per hour with benefits. Jobs that now pay the illegals $10 per hour and no benefits. And what about the big businessmen that made their fortunes by using the illegals over the “expensive” Americans, thus reducing the tax base to the government…And then there are my Hispanic friends that see there jobs being undercut in the same way. It is amazing to my friends that still subscribe to the Post how much news coverage and debating views are put forth on the sports stories, yet both the Rocky and the Post can’t find (chose not to) the story about illegals, global warming, new taxes by another name, government spending, etc…or could it be choose not to due to your liberal view of the world.

Sorry. Perhaps you reporters find this rant amusing sitting in your educated, worldly viewpoint. Oh yes, and unemployed. Perhaps you should consider writing articles people want to read. Try opposing viewpoints. Stir up debate. We arn’t dumb people. We want truth, information, facts. Something to mentally chew on. Not be fluffed to.

So this is my reasoning based on my personal and career experiences why I cancelled both my subscriptions over the past few years. Everytime the sales people at the grocery stores as me to subscribe I say “no”, but I will read online or in print once in a while to see if the fair and balanced investigative reporting ever comes back.

Everything I have said here I can back up if you choose to contact me.

I’ll keep checking your new webpaper to see if you wake up and then earn my support…Ron Louis

And waiting patiently.

The POST is disappointing me every day….

Tick Tock.

My $10/month CAN go elsewhere…

Thanks to each and every one of you who have produced such a reliable newspaper. I savored The Rocky from Western Wyoming years before moving to Colorado. Once upon arriving here, it was such a treat to have The Rocky on my doorstep every morning. To the various carriers who have delivered, please know you have been appreciated.

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I would pay a subscription fee to have access to the quality that’s hit my door step every morning. Ladies and gentleman, why not?

I’ll be watching, reading hoping. Thanks for the I. W. M. R.

I’ve posted a story on my blog to honor the memory of The News, as well as my grandfather.

I hope someone buys the scraps and resurrects The News, even if only in a Westword style or online only.