the next issue is due out this upcoming monday. clearly, it will take more than a devastating fire to stop the new rockford transcript. that s a good thing for new rockford. it s a good thing for the rest of us. every town, every hamlet in this country is in some way part of our national story. one of the local journalistic resources we have near the north dakota oil patch covered the fire in their own building as their own building and all of their history turned to ash. inside that building they had a big walk-in safe. in that safe were the newspaper s archives. the history of new rockford all the way back to the beginning, all the way back to the 1800s. the transcript s publisher told us he does not know if the archives survived because his first priority is getting the next edition out. he has not had time to search the wreckage. we will let you know what he finds when he looks. we will be grateful for the good of us all. if you do not subscribe to your local paper, if you do n