Posted on 12/19/2007 9:14:02 AM PST by shrinkermd
It was Harte — the point man for Avista Capital Partners' 2006 Strib purchase — who hired away St. Paul Pioneer Press publisher Par Ridder in March. By September, the coup had turned into a full-fledged disgrace; a judge bounced Ridder from the job for taking confidential information from St. Paul. Harte — who is not an Avista partner but has told Stribites he has a substantial investment in the paper — was thrust into the publisher's chair.
...However, Harte has made some high-profile changes. Just weeks after Ridder's exit, he ousted longtime editorial page editor Susan Albright, who for 14 years had helmed a section that reliably promoted Minnesota's high-tax, high-service model of government and reliably punished Pawlentyesque penury
...Harte's spending limit advocacy, however, is a major departure from the Strib's editorial beliefs, held for decades under Cowles family and McClatchy Co. ownership. (John and Sage Cowles are major funders of this site, and Cowles-era publisher Joel Kramer is MinnPost's CEO and editor. Kramer is also founder and board chair of Growth & Justice, which advocates higher taxes on wealthier Minnesotans as well as certain spending increases.)
(Excerpt) Read more at minnpost.com ...
Shirley, you jest......
The Minneapolis Red Star to go conservative ...I would expect the devil to be buying hockey skates at the Mall of America before that happens.
There is not, and never has been, a stupidity in all the world as stupid as what comes forth daily from the Star Tribune editorial writers. To read the upper left corner of the editorial page is to debase and stupidify yourself.
First I’ve heard of this MinnPost site. Looks like a real Rats nest...
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