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THE BUZZ WHERE’S DONALD? The embattled California Republican Party, once home to the Reagan Revolution, has enthusiastically embraced a longshot plan for its political comeback after years of declining voter registration. But pulling off the recall of a Democratic governor in a solidly blue state may well depend on something state Republicans themselves can’t agree on: just how big a role Donald Trump should play in the drama.
There is terrible news to report tonight for readers and employees of the Chicago Tribune, New York’s Daily News and the Hartford Courant but good news in Baltimore.
A deal that had been in the works since late 2020 is close to being consummated, with the hedge fund Alden Global Capital on the verge of becoming the sole owner of Tribune Publishing. As has been documented on numerous occasions here and elsewhere, Alden is the most avaricious of the chain newspaper owners, squeezing the life (and the journalism) out of its properties.
Lukas I. Alpert reports in The Wall Street Journal that Alden is paying an estimated $630 million to bring its share of Tribune from 32% to 100%. Tribune, currently a publicly traded company, will go private.
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