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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> I guess I'm really looking for a good mag that reports on current events.

Print media is too slow for current events but better for deeper 
insight. I read current news online. For daily events reported 
reliably I read The New York Times but am frustrated by their new 
for-pay-only columnist offerings. Their Sunday Magazine always has 
good in-depth subjects. I read the Washington Post for political 
stuff. For the right side viewpoint I read National Review Online and 
Townhall Conservative. For opinions on just about everything I go to 
the Drudge Report and scroll down to their list of contributing 
writers where I read William Buckley Jr., Molly Ivins and many others 
between those steady bookends. A friend sends me his old copies of 
Jim Hightower's Hightower Lowdown.

I vacillate on keeping my Utne Reader subscription. They gather 
stories from other mags. They have a predictably left-leaning 
editorial position so they are useful to see that side of issues and 
they offer interesting stories I don't see elsewhere. But much of 
their material is not of interest to me, maybe because their 
editorial slant leans urban female.

I regret that down here in the holler I don't get NPR reception. I 
miss The Diane Rehm show. One of these days I will take the time and 
spend the money to get one of the satellite radio services.