I've subscribed to a local paper ever since I had money to call my own. I went with the Times rather than the PI; I think I made my choice on the basis of the comics the two papers carried back in 1981 or 1982, and just stuck with it since then. I've subscribed to the Sunday New York Times for much of that time as well, along with sporadic attempts at the daily Times and a few years of the Wall Street Journal back when I was a banker. (I was apparently the only person at First Interstate Bank of Washington who ever subecribed to the Wall Street Journal privately. Someone from the mailroom came and asked me about it when the paper started arriving, wondering how I'd been authorized to get it since I wasn't a vice president. I think it made me a considerably better forecaster than I would have been without it.)

I'll miss the newspapers when they go. I haven't learned to read them online yet. I'll miss noticing stuff I'm not looking for just because it's on the same big page with stuff I want to know about.