Dear readers,

When I bought the Chilkat Valley News last year, we went through the books and realized that our subscription rates had held steady for the previous six years. During that time, our local subscriber postage rates went up by 34%, our out-of-town mailing costs went up by 41%, and freight costs to fly the paper in went up by 55%. Our printing costs will have gone up by just under 20% through this…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...