— Said by the gun-runner character Jackie Brown in the book by George Higgins, The Friends of Eddy Coyle (1970).

For us to stay smart, our communities need a vigorous, healthy, local free press. See my synopsis of the 2021 year-end message from the publisher of The Seattle Times, about saving the country’s local free press, which is at https://mrmconservation.com/legislation-politics-and-democracy/