It will be 40 years next spring that I returned home to Atlanta, from days away in college and beginning my career in Macon, Georgia. I moved into a modest apartment in Midtown, within stumbling distance of Manuel’s Tavern, and as I set up my utilities, I began my subscription to the Atlanta Journal. That relationship will be 40 years old next spring.

Growing up in a newspaper and printing family, I can easily admit to a bias in favor of tangible, printed products. Though I have become a fan of a few podcasts, and occasionally will read an E-book with my Amazon Fire, this comic book nerd VASTLY prefers the in-hand hard copy for newspapers, books, comic books, magazines and particularly for the bane of my existence… E-tickets.

I am not suggesting that I have always loved the copy, the edi

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