[northwind]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/05/...

By the sound of it, they already have...

Or, at least the people have begun voting with their feet (no pun intended).

[ankhmoop]

A comment I noticed from the follow-up article:

Nice story Chron. Do a story like this every day and you'll have peple [sic] lining up to buy your newspaper too.

Newspapers have the power to serve the local interest, if they would just accept the responsibility and effort necessary to do so.