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Gannett Co. acquires Midwest, South newspapers for $280M

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Gannett Co. has reached an agreement to acquire newspaper company Journal Media Group for $280 million, giving the media giant control of publications in more than 100 local markets in the U.S., company officials announced Wednesday evening. Journal Media publications dot the Midwest and South and include the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Memphis (Tennessee) Commercial-Appeal and Knoxville (Tennessee) News Sentinel. Industry experts say the publications are a natural fit for Gannett’s strategy of maximizing short-term profits through managing the decline of publications…

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Jeb Bush ad asks: What will you do with that extra $2,000 my tax cut will bring you?

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Jeb Bush says that under his tax reform plan, the average American will save nearly $2,000 in after-tax income. In an op-ed in USA Today last week, Bush wrote, “Two thousand dollars is four mortgage payments for the median American household; or eight months of gas; or six months of utilities; or about three months of groceries. Better yet, if a family were to invest the $2,000 they would save annually over a 20-year period and at compounded interest rate of 8%, they would accumulate a nest egg of $108,000 to…

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Marco Rubio rises to 4th place, Jeb Bush back in 5th in USA Today/Suffolk University poll

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Has the Donald Trump phenomenon peaked? Not exactly, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University poll released on Wednesday that shows the NYC real estate magnate maintaining a double-digit lead in the GOP presidential sweepstakes. Trump is at 23 percent. Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina are tied for second with 13 percent each. Marco Rubio comes in fourth with 9 percent. Jeb Bush is in fifth place with 8 percent, and Ted Cruz is next with 6 percent. Nobody else in the pack gets…

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Mitch Perry Report for 8.21.15 — Jeb’s SNL moment

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Happy Friday — or will it be in Tallahassee? In the spirit of Larry King’s former classic USA Today columns, here we go… All eyes are on the Capitol today to see if the Senate will go along with the House’s plan on redistricting that is supposed to be completed by high noon… None of us knows how much time we have left on this mortal coil, but that time may be even shorter for Jimmy Carter, who has had the greatest post-presidency in…

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Bucs botch another play as they introduce the ‘Red’ movement for women

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A new project by the Tampa Bay Bucs has plenty of their fans seeing Red. The Bucs, ostensibly reaching out to its female fans, have introduced “Red,” which a release reminds us is “a women’s movement” six different times. It also brings up fashion and cooking. “There are any number of reasons why this is a horrible idea,” writes Cindy Boren in The Washington Post. “Women fans understand the game. They number about half of the NFL’s fan base and, in…

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Mitch Perry Report for 7.20.15 – Chattanooga is the latest mass killing in U.S.

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Good morning, everyone. Not to start the week off on a rough note, but can we reflect for a moment on what happened at those two military sites in Chattanooga last Thursday? As we all know by now, a naturalized citizen from Kuwait ended up killing four U.S. Marines and one sailor and wounded two others. There are reports that Mohammod Abdulazeez killed because he was upset over the United States’ policy in the Middle East. In reaction, Rick Scott signed an executive…

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Marco Rubio co-sponsors legislation that would require Cuba to address legal claims with the U.S.

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Claiming that there are between $7-8 billion in outstanding claims by American citizens and businesses for properties confiscated by Fidel and Raul Castro in Cuba that are currently unsettled, Marco Rubio and Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter introduced legislation today that would require the Communist government to address such claims before re-establishing full diplomatic relations with the United States. “Many families and entities in the U.S. and around the world deserve just compensation for the properties the Castro regime seized from them…

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