Postage Rates Threaten Small Publications -- and Democracy
Rocktown Weekly, May 21, 2007
By Charles A. Miller
It is inevitable that postage rates go up. But it is not inevitable that they favor one class of users, large-circulation magazines, while causing severe hardship to another class, the small-circulation magazines that the nation depends on for informed analysis of public affairs.
Yet, unless there is a dramatic public outcry, it is a hardship that will go into effect in mid-July.
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