Regulation
An Uber-related irony
Giuseppe Macri shares with Daily Caller readers an interesting piece of news related to legislative efforts to limit ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft on the West Coast. California…
The Sacramento Bee
newspaper in Sacramento, California
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On outlet stores
The Sacramento Bee (via the Raleigh News & Observer here) offers up a fascinating look at the outlet store business model. And to put it bluntly, outlet stores these days…
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A preview of today’s Shaftesbury on conflicting visions
Drop by the John Locke Foundation at noon today for this week’s Shaftesbury Society meeting, where I’ll be discussing the continuing relevance of Thomas Sowell’s 1987 masterpiece A Conflict of…
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Government needs to learn from newspapers
Daily newspapers may be bastions of liberal thinking, but they’re also businesses. When revenue falls, they have to cut back. When revenue really goes into the dumper, they have to…
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Factiva search of “tea party” and “arrest” finds evidence of widespread violence in the movement
Just kidding. But leave it to “public intellectual” Stanley Fish to ask “The question is, in which category – the serious and the connected or the delirious and the unhinged…
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MNI Responds To, Misrepresents Pension Story
McClatchy Watch has posted a rather peeved response from McClatchy corporate on that cryptic $77m. loss to MNI’s pension fund. In it the company both confirms that it assumes MNI…
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Paper lets true feelings about readers show
The Sacramento Bee, the McClatchy paper that inherited Melanie Sill as editor from The News & Observer, scolded California’s voters in an online editorial yesterday: Good morning, California voters. Do…
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More McClatchy Buyouts
Via the home office paper in Sacramento yesterday: The Bee offered voluntary buyouts to the majority of its full-time employees today and hinted that another round of layoffs is possible…
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McClatchy Watch
That’s the name of a blog I just found via a link on Instapundit. it’s all about the “cluelessness at the Sacramento Bee. Come here to see documentation of one-sided…
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McClatchy in Revenue Freefall
Q1 revenue fell 67 percent — to just $9 million, down from $27 million last year. Worse, the newspaper chain badly undershot analysts’ expectations, earning just 11 cents a share…
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Socialized Medicine Enacted (likely vetoed)
Led by Democratic lawmakers, the California Assembly approved a universal health care bill that would allow the state to run a single-payer health care system that would cover all Californians,…