3,000 circ semiweekly closes office

No, the newspaper itself is not closing, but?

The Copperas Cove Leader-Press, a semiweekly with more than 3,000 circulation per the Texas Press Association's 2025 annual, in a city of more than 35,000, is closing its office and having its staff work remotely. Yes, I know you share Coryell County with Gatesville, and a bit of Killeen intrudes from Bell County, and it covers the Hood, now Fort Cavazos, theoretically more than you do, but still. (Killeen and Temple are still run "shipshape" by the Mayborn family, and interestingly, Temple actually has a higher circulation. That said, a fair chunk of Killeen's population is transients, solders on duty at the Hood and their families.)

More serious sidebar while I'm here? It's Fort Cavazos and Fuck Trump. (And, per Wiki, don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining by claiming it wasn't a naming reversion but that it was renamed after Col. Robert Hood.)

Sadly, and back to journalism, Belton's down to weekly. 

I could see moving to a smaller office rather than their current/previous one, where they had been for 15 years, per the October edition of TPA's Messenger, but shutting entirely?

It's cheap and it smacks to me of "we don't care."

(That said? It looks like one full-time news writer besides the editor, a freelancer who does some news and a little sports, and the publisher doing other sports that's not canned copy. And, that's with the publisher also listed as ad director. Sounds awfully thin on staff, even these days, for a paper that size. And, looking at the website, it looks like they kind of have written off sports coverage.) 

And, if I'm a staffer? Am I being compensated with this savings of, let's say, $1,500 a month with a salary adjustment, for higher-speed internet at home if needed, or for a younger staffer, any internet at home versus having just doomscrolled a smartphone? Additional electricity for summer daytime AC? Hah. Tis to laugh. I'm probably being told that I am saving gas mileage money and I should be grateful my salary isn't being cut.

What if you're the ME and don't even live in the Cove? Maybe you're in Killeen. Or Gatesville. Or Lampasas. 

 I say this in part over worry my current owner might think of this here.