2020-11-06

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The new millennium has been a transformative time for newspaper publishing.

Changing reader habits and the advent of new technology have placed big demands on companies in the print news business.

The Acorn and its parent company, Times Media Group, understand that their biggest responsibility is not only the delivery of credible, relevant information in a timely fashion, but making sure residents have easy access to the publication when stories become available.

That’s why we’re super excited about the news being shared today.

Following a five-year stretch in which Acorn readers were given the option of purchasing online subscriptions to the paper, that so-called “paywall” is coming down.

“Mr. Publisher, tear down this wall,” the late President Ronald Reagan might have once said.

And so we did.

Starting immediately, all online content from our five Acorn publications will be available at no charge to the reader, meaning a paid subscription is no longer required to click and read articles. The weekly Acorn has always been delivered to your driveway at no cost—that more than 40-year tradition will continue—and from now on The Acorn on the internet will be free as well.

Why the change?

The Acorn is your community newspaper, and we want to make sure it stays that way. We believe it’s important that residents feel a connection to the stories we write and also learn about the businesses that advertise in their community. The absence of a paywall is the best way to ensure this free-flow of information remains.

We also invite readers to sign up for the new, easy-to-read Acorn newspaper e-edition delivered weekly to your e-mail. Viewed on mobile, desktop or laptop, the pages are super easy to navigate and, free, just like the print paper.

Local journalism is first gear in the engine that drives America’s free press, and a free press it shall be.

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2020-11-06 E-Edition

ELECTION 2020

EVERY VOTE COUNTS—Above, Simi Valley resident Lyssa Herbert has her daughters Livy Herbert, 11, and Riley Herbert, 16, with her as she casts her vote during in-person voting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Nov. 1. Herbert says she brings her daughters with her when she votes to teach them that voting is both important and a privilege. At […]

Candidates reflect on a race well done

SCHOOOL BOARD
Top two waiting on final results


Newcomer Sofya Bagdasaryan is looking to clinch a seat on the Simi Valley Unified School District board. As results of SVUSD’s first by-district election on Tuesday continue to come in, Bagdasaryan is ahead of both Rocky Rhodes and Jonathan Bonesteel for the Area C seat, which opened up when Dan White opted not to run for re-election. As of Thursday […]

District 1 race hangs in balance

CITY COUNCIL
Mashburn, Litster take early lead


The race for the three open seats on the City Council was an important one this election, as the newly elected officials will be challenged with bringing unity back to the city after a year rife with division over race and social inequality. Keith Mashburn, who was running for a second term as mayor, has managed to hold off his […]

Gray poised to grasp seat in park race

Two longtime board members get another term


Tuesday’s election had the potential to shake up the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District board of directors, with six contenders vying for three seats on the five-member panel. Incumbents Elaine Freeman and Kate O’Brien appear poised to hold on to their seats, but newcomer Josh Gray is edging out the third incumbent, Mark Johnson, a retired math teacher who […]

Scanners will no longer pick up SVPD chatter

State mandate compelled encryption


The Simi Valley Police Department is the first law enforcement agency in Ventura County to encrypt all of its radio and dispatch communications, making it impossible for the public and news media to listen in. SVPD switched to encrypted radio communication Nov. 1 with no warning. Chief David Livingstone said the decision was made to comply with a mandate from […]

Smooth voting, hefty turnout—suspense

EDITORIAL

Well that was a long day’s journey into night, and into the next day, and the next. Votes will be counted for at least the next two weeks if not longer thanks to a state law that requires officials to accept ballots sent by mail until 17 days after the election. Fortunately, concerns about voter intimidation and suppression never materialized, […]

Political Cartoon

Voters showed up in droves, but ballot count is going ‘smoothly’



Although it may take some time to certify all the votes cast in the 2020 general election, Ventura County Clerk-Recorder Mark Lunn said things are going well at the county level to process, verify and count the more than 330,000 ballots returned thus far. “What went particularly well was the new voting equipment we’re using. I think it went very […]

Take a lead in education for females

The education of women and girls, as laid out in the Girls LEAD act, is essential to the preservation of our democracy and way of life. Women make up roughly 50% of the population, and yet we are not represented in the higher reaches of power because the pipeline between women’s education and leadership is blocked. Societal prejudices force women […]