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Tim Skubick

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 28, 2026
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Jul 11, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · By Tim Skubick

    Iran, gas prices on the ballot (opens the original)

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    You may find this hard to believe, but the winner of the best political campaign commercial of the year has already been decided. But you won’t find it on the tube, the radio, the paper or any of your screens if you find your “news” from some of those unreliable sources. So with a drum roll. the envelope please. And the winner in the category of best political campaign commercial is…..Iran. You see that country is responsible for a “commercial” that is seen by every motorist in the state of Mich

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · By Tim Skubick

    Zoom has become a must use, despite downsides (opens the original)

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    In the tool box that political reporters drag to work each day, the most important one is the chance to ask politicians questions, on behalf of you, especially at election time. So what’s the worst thing that has happened to block scribes from using that tool? Like other technological advances using the Zoom call to meeting has its upsides and downsides. During COVID, it goes without saying that without it, the chance to interview officials in person was nil and the impact on the lack of public

  3. Article · Aug 29, 2026 · By Tim Skubick

    Kids are actually talking to one another again (opens the original)

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    Long before cell phones invaded every school in the state driving down student attention spans to lower than the balance in your checkboo, about the only way students back in the day could ignore the teacher was to hide a dirty book inside the pages of a text book and then hope teach would not wander by to see it. So here we are as schools begin with a brand new state law aimed at shifting students from screens to the good old black board. The question is will it work given the level of addictio

  4. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · By Tim Skubick

    Social media: The primary news source (opens the original)

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    That whirling sound you heard was “Uncle Walter” * (see bottom of page) spinning in his CBS grave while the accompanying thud above ground was in the mainstream news media outlets across the state and the world. They were hearing for the first time that the majority of news consumers are being fed by social media. Say it isn’t so is the likely biased response in the MSM newsrooms as they knew this day was coming and “whoomp there it is!” The Reuters Institute Digital News Report ruined the day o

  5. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · By Tim Skubick

    Good faith award needed for good faith political players (opens the original)

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    It’s really a downright shame that some fancy-smancy foundation has not cough up the cash to establish a Nobel Peace Prize-like award for political players who make a good faith effort to deliver to the citizens something they are begging for now even more. That would be more sincere attempts at bipartisan cooperation whereby the participants realize they sometimes have to set aside strongly held beliefs, get in the room with folks from the other side who feel the same way, and pledge to do the

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