The final issue of Disclosure came off stands yesterday.
As with other local print news products recently, increasing mailing and materials costs have made it economically unfeasible to continue the print product. We experienced a postal increase in January, which didn’t help the delivery at all, and people continued to get their papers as many as two weeks after others receive theirs in the mail, and because they are consistently the same people, this leads us to believe that there’s something going on with the post office in those particular locales that amounts to targeting, which has been proven to have been done to us before, but not to this extent.
Further, costs of paper products shot through the roof in March of this year. Sadly, there are few paper mills in the U.S., and our print shop brought paper in from Canada. With the imposition of tariffs, we’re now being gouged by the Canadians and unfortunately, there haven’t yet been any American paper mills willing to take up the cause. We were notified of the first increase, which was to occur in March, on February 2 of this year. A month later came another notification of another upcoming increase in April. We cut back our press run, but literally we were paying more for our reduced numbers than we were even before with a full, regular press run. We said we’d give it six months, but increasing costs in simply operating the business have just made the whole thing unsustainable.
Although there will be no new e-Edition at this time, we are going to keep the e-Edition open and available in an effort to reorganize and restructure finances and operations. Those of you whose checks have come in for print subscriptions since we made this decision will see your checks returned to you; many have already been mailed. We will refund ALL print subscribers on a pro-rated basis.
We request that those who have our phone numbers please don’t call or text at this time; we have been busy the last two years battling Lyme, and are trying to get some rest after the pickup of this last issue yesterday (Monday, August 20), as the treatment is sometimes as rough as the disease. We thank you in advance for respecting this request. We also ask that you check into Lyme, as it is debilitating and MUCH more common in this part of the country than your doctors want to admit. It has almost completely sidelined Ang (since it's likely she's actually had it for about two decades now), and there’s a strong suspicion that Lyme is what’s caused her multiple sclerosis and recurring cancers. Lyme is caused by spirochetes (‘spiro-keets,’ like parakeets, but around here, we unaffectionately call them piranhakeets, as the spirochetes actually eat a person’s cells and consume the body from the inside out.) They viciously focus on brain and spinal cord cells. This is why many Lyme patients show early-onset dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and a host of other “diseases” mainstream medicine wants to sell you a “treatment” for…when it all could probably be avoided if doctors would stop denying that there’s Lyme in them thar woods, catch it early, and try to wipe out the piranhakeets before they wipe out YOU. (And also decriminalize cannabis completely, as it is one of the best curatives for Lyme-induced effects and might actually wipe out the piranhakeets if caught early).
Anyway, that’s where we are. It’s been a good past 15 years. Thanks for your support.
(By the way...this won't be taken over to the Facebook page...we have too much to do this week with the restructuring and reorganizing, and it's not time to shut down the Facebook page yet [which we are still doing]; I don't have time to babysit the page for comments from haters. So if you want to comment, please do so here. Haters will be closed off from the page, so our message to them is...stay away. They're part of the problem, and they are in large part responsible for the lack of unbiased media in this part of the state. Think about it.)