Thursday September 21, 2023; 7:29 PM EDT
- A friend and I were texting about missing a guest writer who'd come to town. He pointed out that you have to do some digging to keep up with what's going on here, what with the performing arts centers, the colleges and universities, the music venues, and such. If a person could go to one web page and see all the events here, this little city and county of, what, a quarter million souls would seem like a very special place, and maybe it is. But it's hard to see it. There's no central repository of information, all the more so since the local paper's been bought out and stripped of resources. Things are in some ways much better than they seem, due to the lack of information. We're demoralized sometimes not because of the reality but because of the lack of information.#