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Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 25-26
Merry Christmas! I promise that I'll finally finish the last batch of Christmas cards this weekend and get them out in the mail pronto. (Who am I kidding: What I mean to say is, I'll get started on...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 18-19
My Day-Timer tells me that this was the weekend I had set aside to do all my Christmas errands, which means -- they're not all going to get done again this year. Well, live and learn, they always...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 11-12
Happy holidays. Let me ruin your weekend by calling your attention to a blockbuster Atlantic story by Barton Gellman (he's the reporter who wrote the story outlining the strategy by then-President...
Your Weekend Reader for Dec. 4-5
I know: Christmas is just three weeks away. I know some of you are just about ready to wrap up your holiday preparations. I am not among you -- everything on my holiday checklist remains, um,...
Alden Global Capital makes a bid for Lee Enterprises
Remember earlier this year, when I wrote incessantly about the (eventually) successful effort by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital to buy the newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing? I was...
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 20-21
Thanksgiving is Thursday, and so I vowed to stuff this edition of Your Weekend Reader with stories that evoked some sense of gratitude -- and that vow lasted until Monday morning, when I read this...
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 13-14
We started the last edition of Weekend Reader with a disturbing report close to home: a New York Times story about death threats being sent to a member of the Corvallis School Board. This week,...
Your Weekend Reader for Nov. 6-7
Only a few shopping weeks remain until Christmas -- but if you'd rather blow another couple of days with carefully curated and provocative reading selections, that's a good choice as well,...