Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Saved From Closure by Nonprofit

This story -- aside from not mentioning the new owners signaled they want to cut staff and the Guild in Pittsburgh, which is badass, warned them "not so fast" -- also adds offhandedly near the end that the Blocks also own "a newspaper in Toledo." Ouch.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to stay in business under new nonprofit owner The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will live on past its slated May 3 closure date, thanks to a new deal with a nonprofit journalism organization.

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Why am I not surprised?

Last night @pbsnews.org interviewed some guy named John Hinderaker of the "Center of the American Experiment," (?) who scoffed at No Kings, "..Trump is not a king. It's perfectly safe to go out there and call Trump all the horrible names you want to call him, because he is not, in fact, a dictator."

It's April Fools' Day because, particularly in the Republic, we have more than one fool.

Yeah, for sure. And there are many poignant moments in the show when the characters themselves acknowledge this, either as a terribly sad epiphany or as an obvious fact they've understood all along.

Yeah, but then at the end you see poor Dukie's fate and you realize that for everyone who escapes, at least one more gets dragged under.

Ohio prosecutor pushes back against child care fraud legislation • Ohio Capital Journal An Ohio prosecuting attorney came to an Ohio House committee personally to oppose a bill regarding child care fraud cases, and set the record straight on claims about child care fraud made by legislat...

Ohio prosecutor pushes back against child care fraud legislation ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/30/o...

That guy on the left is apparently moonlighting from his real job as a security guard at Wally World. "Sorry folks, the airport's closed. Moose out front shoulda told ya."

JobsOhio oversight proposed by bipartisan Ohio lawmakers following podcast scandal • Ohio Capital Journal A bipartisan pair of Ohio lawmakers have announced legislation establishing new oversight for JobsOhio. The proposal comes in the wake of a podcast scandal that prompted Ted Carter to step down as…

A bipartisan pair of Ohio lawmakers have announced legislation establishing new oversight for JobsOhio. The proposal comes in the wake of a podcast scandal that prompted Ted Carter to step down as president of Ohio State University. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/25/j...

I never used to put any stock in the whole mercury-in-retrograde stuff but these last three weeks have made me a believer.

Even more amazing when you inevitably conclude this was surely his reaction to some woman telling him to take a bath, get a hair cut and quit doing drugs.

The more this administration and its supporters talk about 1979 this morning the more I fear they have decided that regime change in Iran should mean the U.S. installing the son of the last shah.

Is the dog crashing the Olympics or are the Olympics crashing his dog park? "Hey, I don't know who you all are. I come here twice a week and I've never seen any of you before. I will say I don't mind if you all want to ski along with me while I run, though."

I just .... can't... get my head around the dumb.

Amen.

Husted took thousands from company that paid Ohio $88 million to settle Medicaid fraud allegations • Ohio Capital Journal U.S. Sen. Jon Husted says fraud is a reason he's against ACA insurance subsidies. But a big contributor allegedly defrauded Ohio Medicaid.

Ohio GOP U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has taken at least $75,000 in campaign contributions from Centene, including more than $29,000 after the company paid $88.3 million to settle allegations that it had fraudulently extracted tens of millions from Ohio Medicaid. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Gift link: This is the most amazing story you'll read this week. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

Now get Martin Sheen, Robe Lowe and Allison Janney to do all the towns in Ohio.

Attempting to criminalize the actions of an independent public servant, Fed Chair Jay Powell, for the sin of acting independently is an outrage. It's bad economics, bad politics, bad for the rule of law, bad for the public sector, bad for American credibility and bad for Americans.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette owners couldn’t bust the union, so they shut down the paper | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA Post-Gazette to Shut Down 240-Year-Old Paper After SCOTUS Slaps Down Company’s Bid to Evade Court Order.

NEW: Post-Gazette to shut down 240-year-old paper after SCOTUS slaps down company’s bid to evade court order

“Instead of simply following the law, the owners chose to punish local journalists and the city of Pittsburgh,” said Goldstein, president of @pghguild.com

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There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

We guarantee the death of most remaining newsrooms "We're not learning from the past. Instead, we're approaching this new era of generative AI much like we did platforms."

"...chucking away the strengths of journalism to embrace the form and function of platforms, was meant to save us. We forgot that the medium is the message."
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“This is just another example of this legislature endorsing misinformation and propaganda over facts and science," said Abortion Forward Deputy Director @jmiracleoh.bsky.social about House Bill 485

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.