03.24.2009 7:31 pm

Senator proposes that newspapers be allowed tax-exempt status

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

U.S. Sen Benjamin L. Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland, has introduced legislation that would allow newspapers to operate as non-profits with tax-exempt status, like PBS and NPR.

His goal is to help local papers, not newspaper chains.

Cardin said in a press release…

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06.02.2008 3:35 pm

Where’s the war news?

By Steve Parker

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A retired Globe-Democrat staffer called to criticize our day-in and day-out reporting on the war in Iraq. Not enough, not prominent enough, she said.

Five years into the war, is an 8-inch story in the middle of Page A5 enough? (”Iraqis push…

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Senator proposes that newspapers be allowed tax-exempt status

Where’s the war news?

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