Power Of The Press?

The phone calls came in shortly after the Freeport City Council reversed course and voted to approve the Grant Application program in cooperation with Highland College and the Freeport Park District.

“If you hadn’t posted that story, I don’t think anything would have changed. I had a lot of people telling me they called.”

We posted our story – You Better Sit Down For This One – late Thursday night. By Sunday night, it had received over 750 hits on our website. But there was still no way of knowing if it would help to change anything – after all, the Light Side of the Force, was going to be mis...