Via the Turner Report:
It’s the darling of the newspaper industry at the moment because of its acquisition strategy, but a prospectus filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicates GateHouse Media … is nearly $1.2 billion in debt.
And from that prospectus:
Our substantial indebtedness could adversely affect our financial health in the following ways:
-a substantial […]
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Gene Weingarten is a columnist for the Washington Post. He recently learned that the Peoria Journal Star is going to give his column a test-run. Most journalists avoid cliches like […]
It’s a shame that the Peoria Journal Star didn’t post today’s editorial on the Web site. It was a particularly snarky take-down of Vice President Dick Cheney, focusing on his unprecedented power and his role in y every screw-up and scandal in the administration. In fact, almost the entire page was about Cheney. Even Jonah […]
Via the Journal Star:
Peoria has lost significant bragging rights, as new census data shows it has dropped two rungs on the ranking of biggest cities in Illinois.
Springfield and Joliet now surpass Peoria in population, meaning Peoria has dropped from its 2000 ranking as the fifth biggest city in the state to the seventh largest city.
I […]
GateHouse Media is selling one of its newspapers, the Herald-Dispatch of Huntington, W.V., to Champion Industries. The $77 million price includes some related publications.
UPDATE: Link fixed.
Note: I used to write for the River City Times. I’m not even sure this publication even exists any more, as I don’t write for it now and I haven’t seen any copies on the stands in months.
One of the article I wrote for the guy was this piece about dogfighting in Peoria. It […]
Cal Skinner reports on a judge’s decision to put Mob trial documents and audio tapeds on the Internet.
Good advice for the over-sensitive souls among us. This just may be the best column about religious sensitivity that I’ve ever read.
Yeah, he’s considered a money-grubbing vulgarian whose malign influence has turned cable news into a tabloid cesspool. But as this Time article suggests, he understands the potential of all-online news. Consider:
Two years ago, Murdoch’s archrival, Sumner Redstone of Viacom, thought he had a deal for MySpace, but News Corp. swooped in and snatched it, bidding […]
Molly Parker is not only “walking on sunshine” (an inside joke), she’s hitting the road, via Capitol Fax:
Peoria Journal-Star political reporter/columnist Molly Parker is moving on to a new job in Charleston, South Carolina. I’ve known Molly since she was a PAR intern at the Statehouse, and she has become a pal. If you’re near […]
from AskJack:
Motorists should expect a right lane closure on westbound I-74 from Forrest Hill Avenue to Sterling Avenue from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, June 29, for landscaping. A work zone speed limit of 45 mph will be in effect during construction.
Today’s Peoria Journal Star article on the death of efforts to attach a hotel to the Peoria Civic Center saved the best, most telling paragraph for last.
Civic Center Authority Chairwoman Rebekah Bourland was discussing the lack of support for a proposed Hilton Garden Inn at Monroe Avenue and Kumpf Boulevard, the latest scheme in a […]
GateHouse Media has bought out TimesNewspapers, the chain of local weeklies for which I once worked as editor of the Peoria Times-Observer. The other newspapers that have been snatched up include the Chillicothe Times-Bulletin, the Morton Times-News, the East Peoria Times-Courier and the Washington Times-Reporter. These papers had a combined circulation of 31,000 (one can […]
Yes, Peoria Pundit and The Blog Peoria Project were down for about a half hour today. My hosting company forget to mark my invoices as paid. They moved quickly to correct the problem.
In Chillicothe, they actually hire new police officers when the city expands.
That ninth full-time officer would be the first increase to the police force in at least 30 years, says Chief Steve Maurer.
“If you want to measure the growth here, when I started there was one stoplight in town. Now there are three, […]
