When I can find actual articles discussing Oregon topics and local Salem Oregon topics it's pretty…read moregreat. The issue for me is navigating the website. I pay for a subscription, a price that nearly matches Netflix, but I have to deal with flashing ads, pop-up videos, and I have to be careful when scrolling because it takes me to advertisers pages. I just want to read the news. is that not what we pay for??

Evertysingle billing cycle I get a message n from the Statesman Journal that my account information…read moreneeds to be updated because they say my credit card declines payment. Every single billing cycle I call the Statesman Journal and they say they will submit the payment request by hand. My credit card says they are not receiving any requests for payment from the Statesman Journal. This has been going on for a year. The last person I talked to at the Journal today said they can see I have called multiple times and they will "escalate the issue."

Someday I hope to be able to revise this rating upward…read more Quite frankly, Salem Monthly sucks. The writing is tired and uninspired. Since it only comes out monthly, its "news" topics fade quickly. I will continue to read it, hoping it improves - mostly because there's nothing else in town to counter the similarly lame Statesman Journal.

This is a free weekly local paper and it's fantastic. One of the best parts is the reader…read moresubmissions, typically it's the assinine rantings of the local puritanicals, angry hipsters, you name it and its represented in this section and published in its entirety. It's hysterical, and made even funnier by the staff writers responses. The articles are light reading, but entertaining and informative. Revenue for the paper is generated by advertising so you'll see a lot of that. But it also has a pretty decent local calling (Not that anything ever really goes on here) a good way to keep up on local music and such. Hey, its FREE! How can you complain about something someone is just giving you?

We actually have a very good Nickel Ads paper...i get mine at Roths Vista grocery. We got a great…read moredeal on a used washer/dryer a few years back -- and it was a easy transaction with the local seller.

In my opinion, they give a straight view on most things that they do…read more As far as recording who's media don't really fun to be really biased on anything just put it out there for you to make your own choices and for that reason I give them 5 stars

Love the Bill Post Show from 12-3, Home and Garden with Mike Lee on Saturday at 9 soon to be 10 am,…read morein 2014 and the I Spy Show, with Mark...very good, you don't want to miss it. And I enjoy doing The FayDay Show 10 am until 2014 then 11 am on Saturdays.