A new newspaper has started in Toledo and my byline was in the first issue.
Toledo Streets is the newest street paper in the nonprofit North American Street Newspaper Association.
I wrote a short book review. (I mean short! Just 250 words! Took me like an hour! And it's all volunteers! So don't get made at me, Americorps!)
The papers primarily address issues related to poverty and homelessness. Official vendors (many of them homeless) buy papers for 25 cents each and then sell them for $1, keeping the profit. It's not much, but it's meant to help boost enterprising people out of poverty. Some of them also write for the paper.
This article in the Toledo Free Press pretty much says it all.
The first edition dropped in mid-October, so I'm a little behind in writing about this. I haven't been able to make it to a planning meeting since the first one, so I'm not sure when/if I'll write anything else, but it was cool to be part of the first issue.
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