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Do your "paper" online.


In article <MHigby.2709.17A4A0A7@Primenet.com>, MHigby@Primenet.com
(Michael Higby) wrote:

*) There is a real need for a newspaper in the North Hollywood area.  The LA 
*) Times and Daily News do not serve this area well, in terms of coverage, and 
*) any other publications are pretty much limited to narrow shopping areas such 
*) as Studio City or Toluca Lake, or to the arts, such as the NoHo News.  
*) 
*) What is needed, is a regular (once a week at least?) journal that
covers news, 
*) politics, life, sports, education, leisure, the arts etc.  It should
have the 
*) best damn arts section there is, since that is a big part of North
Hollywood, 
*) BUT, it should do a bang up job on covering the latest news in the
area, good 
*) and bad.
*) 
*) With 250,000 residents and thousands of businesses, there is a market,
but its 
*) one that needs to be developed.  North Hollywood is a community undergoing a 
*) renaissance that has a lot of potential.  Now is the time to get in on the 
*) ground floor, when its hard, but at least cheap.
*) 
*) I do not have any money or any experience in the newspaper biz per se, but I 
*) am a businessman in the area and consider myself very creative.  I
would like 
*) to put together a consortium of folks to do this.  I am not really
interested 
*) in making any fast money off this, as I make a good living, but I do
not want 
*) to go broke doing it.  I would hope to get some stock out of the deal,
that in 
*) 10 or so years, would represent an ownership in a very succesful
company that 
*) I helped to build with my blood, sweat and tears.
*) 
*) Most importantly, I would like to see a community paper for this
neighborhood, 
*) that needs one.  We need a way to get important information out to all our 
*) citizens, and a forum for their thoughts.
*) 
*) Anyone, no matter what your lot in life, if interested, please let me know.
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*) Michael - MHigby@primenet.com
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