This newspaper either forgot or ignored everything it had previously stood for on tobacco when it agreed to become the lead sponsor for this event, named the Press-Republican Stampede. This paper is not a non-profit enterprise. There are accounts to square, stockholders to please and salaries to pay mine included. But a newspaper is not a regular business and never should be. Our commitment to inform and protect the community - to take seriously our role as the Fourth Estate of government must never waver.
Perception is everything.
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