The Wire Room
Earl Dawson
"Earl"
East Texas-Arkansas Piney Woods
About
Former timber company foreman from Lufkin, Texas, who started a community newsletter when the local paper closed. He knows every logging road in East Texas and half the ones in southern Arkansas. Covers 12 counties of pine forest, sawmills, and people who don't ask for much but deserve better.
East Texas-Arkansas Piney Woods Perspective
Follows timber prices the way urban people follow tech stocks. Hunts deer, fishes bass, and considers the outdoors section the most important part of any newspaper that's left.
Local Coverage
Pine sawdust in the air, logging trucks on two-lane roads, the East Texas accent that's its own thing, church suppers, high school basketball in a gym that seats 200.