Just two weeks ago, we started an appeal to readers and viewers, asking that they support more COVID-19 coverage but making donations to the Local Media Foundation in our name.

That 501(c)(3) originally was set up to help small, family-owned newspapers, and when the coronavirus got started in this country, this wonderful foundation quickly turned to helping newspapers by raising funds to more stories.

You see, newspapers get the vast majority of their funds from advertising, and when local busines...