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State Journal-Register columnist Paul Povse addresses questions about Copley’s attempts to sell their Illinois newspapers.
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The headline above the article reads Residents to get say in District 150 buys.
Really? By, “get say” I assumed that meant the wishes of the public would be taken into consideration before a final decision is made. That would be huge news, because from the moment Peoria School District 150 decided behind closed doors to [...]

BusinessWeek has a story about some unethical behavior at Journal Star’s parent company.
A senior fellow at the Cato Institute resigned from the libertarian think tank on Dec. 15 after admitting that he had accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing op-ed articles favorable to the positions of some of Abramoff’s clients. Doug [...]

Advertisers and subscribers to the Journal Star are helping to support the arts:
A $150,000 gift from the publisher of the San Diego Union-Tribune will pay for the broadcast of six San Diego Symphony Orchestra concerts on National Public Radio this summer, it was reported Saturday.
The gift from The Copley Press Inc. also will pay for [...]

The Los Angeles Times says that there’s speculation that the majority owner of the Copley Press chain be looking to sell.
It’s not a particularly flattering article. David Copley is portrayed as a lout with three drunk driving arrests, who spends too much time happily sotted in trendy bars, and who with no real experience or [...]

Managing editor Jack Brimeyer himself broke the news officially to readers: grieving families will now have to pay to have a full obituary* in the Journal Star. Of course, Brimeyer waits until the end of the fourth paragraph to get to lower the boom, and he does it in an underhanded fashion. Instead of [...]

Doug Finke turns in a fine column today by leading with a fine example of yet another downstate politician running for office by scapegoating the Windy City:
“This is not about going to war with anybody except the politically corrupt Chicago guys who think the state of Illinois is nothing but an opportunity for them to [...]