There's That Word Again—Monopoly

As a native provincial, until recent years I’d always maintained the private notion that our city was smart rather than nice or mean (or nice and mean). But without a free non-monopoly press it hasn’t been possible to hear the voices of real individuals like I had been used to. The current formula of the weeklies is to print only insultingly poor writing and then complacently publish the complaints sent in by readers who don’t know any better. We desperately need a paper like The Rake that could reflect some true indigenous intelligence again, if only for the entertainment value.

Michael McKenzie
Minneapolis