Daily Archives: April 17, 2009

Tax Advice, Please?

Beth Hamilton has a question and needs advice quickly… I’m trying to figure out, by 5 p.m. today, whether to take the severance as a lump sum or a salary pay out. Our accountant doesn’t work on Fridays. I can’t get anyone from Human Resources at the Courant to tell me what, if any, tax [...]

Proof Of Claim II

This might begin to explain the mailings we all got… Earlier this week, Tribune, and its subsidiaries that filed for bankruptcy protection, began mailing “bar date notices” to potential creditors and current employees.  Included in the mailing sent to current employees was a cover letter from Gerry Spector that explained why they were receiving these [...]

A Former Columnist Loses Her Grip

A new member of the Obama administration — and, more sadly, a former LA Times columnist — has proposed, among other things, that the government should license newspapers in order to save them. That’s the report from Fox News, anyway — the closest thing Americans had to a government sponsored news agency during the Bush years. [...]

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