[kschwi]

I have nothing against the Daily Sun, but am considering a paper that covers Florida news. My wife likes Carolyn Hax's advice column, so bonus if her column is syndicated. I know the Tampa Bay Times and Orlando Sentinel are somewhat in our region. I would assume there is a paper out of Gainesville and Jacksonville. Does anyone read any of these papers and if so what is your opinion?

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by kschwi

I have nothing against the Daily Sun, but am considering a paper that covers Florida news. My wife likes Carolyn Hax's advice column, so bonus if her column is syndicated. I know the Tampa Bay Times and Orlando Sentinel are somewhat in our region. I would assume there is a paper out of Gainesville and Jacksonville. Does anyone read any of these papers and if so what is your opinion?

Take a look at the Florida Phoenix. Not very local but seems to be a good Florida paper

[jbartle1]

Originally Posted by kschwi

I have nothing against the Daily Sun, but am considering a paper that covers Florida news. My wife likes Carolyn Hax's advice column, so bonus if her column is syndicated. I know the Tampa Bay Times and Orlando Sentinel are somewhat in our region. I would assume there is a paper out of Gainesville and Jacksonville. Does anyone read any of these papers and if so what is your opinion?

I save the planet and trees and get my news online but Orlando Sentinel and Miami Herald are options

[justjim]

Orlando Sentinel digital paper. It’s affordable and informative.

[tophcfa]

We will be subscribing to the Daily Sun for as long as they continue delivering a physical newspaper, at a reasonable price, and allow us to put our subscription on hold when not at our Villages home. We both very much enjoy reading a real physical (not digital) paper, and as a bonus we bring the old papers up to our northern home and use them to start fires in the wood stove.

[mraines]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

We will be subscribing to the Daily Sun for as long as they continue delivering a physical newspaper, at a reasonable price, and allow us to put our subscription on hold when not at our Villages home. We both very much enjoy reading a real physical (not digital) paper, and as a bonus we bring the old papers up to our northern home and use them to start fires in the wood stove.

It's mostly a propaganda and sales paper for the Villages developer. I quit my subscription years ago but it still gets delivered every day. I just take it to St. Tim's.

[Normal]

Originally Posted by mraines

It's mostly a propaganda and sales paper for the Villages developer. I quit my subscription years ago but it still gets delivered every day. I just take it to St. Tim's.

It really isn’t much of a newspaper. Note how 3/4s of it is all about homes for sale.

Straight from Wikipedia
“ The newspaper's strategy is to be a print-first publication, with a recent Sunday issue including a 36-page insert listing the schedules of hundreds of clubs and recreation centers within the Villages, 48 pages of editorial content and 14 pages of classified advertising. The Daily Sun is also bucking the trend by loading its pages with advertisements for real estate, doctors, banks, golf courses, restaurants, and a wide selection of retail outlets”

[jimhoward]

We subscribed to the Daily Sun because it was dirt cheap and we were advised to subscribe by the villages people when we bought or house.

We read it the first day, but now never read it and just throw it away unopened everyday. It is a big waste of paper for us and we will cancel it as soon as we get around to it.

[BlueStarAirlines]

Originally Posted by jbartle1

I save the planet and trees and get my news online but Orlando Sentinel and Miami Herald are options

Newsprint today is a pretty low impact type of paper, made from recycled content and wood pulp from trees that grow very fast and that are raised specifically for cheap paper products.

There are other waste streams that are much less renewable/recyclable that I devote my energy to avoiding, one example? Plastic petroleum hydrocarbons are about as non-renewable and non-recyclable as it comes

[DONS999]

I'm confused because there must be a different paper at my door in the mornings that some of you are not getting. In my paper there is always a SPORTS section that is pretty good at keeping up with most sport both national and local. On different days 15 to 20 page sections on subjects like "Entertainment / Health / Cars / Recreation and Parks/ Travel / local authors book reviews and more. Now they have a new insert called CLASSICS which is fun.

Please help me find a major city newspaper that doesn't have a REAL ESTATE SECTION .

[Pairadocs]

Originally Posted by Normal

It really isn’t much of a newspaper. Note how 3/4s of it is all about homes for sale.

Straight from Wikipedia
“ The newspaper's strategy is to be a print-first publication, with a recent Sunday issue including a 36-page insert listing the schedules of hundreds of clubs and recreation centers within the Villages, 48 pages of editorial content and 14 pages of classified advertising. The Daily Sun is also bucking the trend by loading its pages with advertisements for real estate, doctors, banks, golf courses, restaurants, and a wide selection of retail outlets”

Yes, Wikipedia, that bastion of pure truth... but seriously, the Sun has always been an instrument of positive "news" only that puts the Villages in the best light, and (possibly ?) as such can also be written off as advertising for tax purposes ? ? Don't know. But long ago before when we were years from retirement, we came up to central Florida to visit some family in Leesburg. They suggested we go to the Spanish Springs square, a public square that had free entertainment nightly. It was a night of extreme tragedy, a car plowed into the crowd and killed an individual. We were all in shock, running every direction. The next day we bought a Daily Sun to find out exactly what happened... no one had any idea when we were all running every direction. Never even knew how many were killed at the time it happened... car actually came right through some barricades. Will never forget the shock the next day that not only was it not the headline of the villages paper, it was NOT EVEN MENTION THAT DAY OR THERE AFTER. Years later when we retired up here, that never left our minds, that the very paper of the town where such a shocking thing happened in such a small town would never even mentioned in the paper ! After moving here we finally figured it out, LOL, even if a bomb in dropped on the area they answer the phone with "it's a BEAUTIFUL day in the Villages'....lol. The Ostrich theory rules here, maybe that's why it's considered a "bubble"...LOL !

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by Normal

It really isn’t much of a newspaper. Note how 3/4s of it is all about homes for sale.

Straight from Wikipedia
“ The newspaper's strategy is to be a print-first publication, with a recent Sunday issue including a 36-page insert listing the schedules of hundreds of clubs and recreation centers within the Villages, 48 pages of editorial content and 14 pages of classified advertising. The Daily Sun is also bucking the trend by loading its pages with advertisements for real estate, doctors, banks, golf courses, restaurants, and a wide selection of retail outlets”

Just skip reading all the advertising, that’s what makes it one of the last print-first publications still available at a reasonable price. The local news is extremely bias, but there is good national news and sports and there is usually an interesting feel good story. I enjoy sitting outside in the birdcage every morning with a hot cup of coffee and a real physical newspaper to thumb through.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by jimhoward

We subscribed to the Daily Sun because it was dirt cheap and we were advised to subscribe by the village people when we bought our house.

really?