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During the late 60s I worked on a left wing alternative paper (I was a heart bleeding environmentalist back then. But I've recovered.)

We were invovled with trying to stop a nuclear power plant in Skagit County, WA, and succeeded. One of the alumni was Joel Connely of the Seattle PI fame. There were others who used the Northwest Passage as a stepping stone, but they aren't in the area anymore. Success to them was a geographical change.

Anyway, we had people who wanted to spread the word, and were willing to work on doing it. Some wrote, as I did, some hawked ads, and others did what was fun and useful.

A couple or three years ago I was at a Republican Lincoln Day Dinner in Skagit County and our speaker was a conservative radio personality. After he spoke I waited in line to speak to him and I told him about my thoughts on getting a conservative "underground paper" up and running. He liked the idea. Even gave me his home phone number. I was swamped with putting out a lot of fires at the time and couldn't get back to him able to offer reasonable guarantees of time, money, etc. I just ran plum out of steam and have been fighting more or less the same old fires, but I think Chad Fairbanks is right; we do need a small alternative paper to cut throught the main media morass.

I believe we conservatives have to start small, just as the bong puffers did in the 60's. I laughed at their papers, one of which was the Seattle Weekly, which is now a lefitst copraphilic give away in all the coffee shops at least in Western WA.

You're right Chad. Let's get cracking on this. If the hippies could shut down a nuclear power plant, pass the state environmental legislation, and be quoted in our state capitol, then maybe some of us here and now can create a conservative wave. Waves have crests. A conservative wave crest could wash away a lot of the stuff that needs to go in this state.