clear: both; margin-right: 10px; } .mw-body #mw-content-text h5.rcvrace_header { letter-spacing: .04em; padding-left: 10px; But the newsroom worried this was an attempt to censor our journalism. .expand-all:hover, .collapse-all:hover {cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;} Not only did we stop calling him an oligarch; we stopped naming him at all. width: 100%; } background-color: #db0000; display: table; font-weight: 300; If it did it here, the company could do it anywhere. School districts | The terms of the agreement would remain confidential. Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting announced the sale of the popular Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Hidden Valley Resort and Laurel Mountain Ski Area to Vail .leg-hnt-toggle-text { } left: 0px; You may know minority owner Wayne Perry as the president of the Boy Scouts of America,which is still weighingwhether it should keep discriminating against gay children. In the end, they decided to give compromise one last shot. Soon thereafter, he was back in the news: Arizona legislators passed the states draconian anti-immigration law, SB 1070, and activists were calling for boycotts of the Diamondbacks and the 2011 All-Star Game at Chase Field. vertical-align: middle; width: 35px !important; Scott Stanford is coming here, she said. Staunch Republicans, theMorenosgave $100,000 to the Romney Victory Fund in 2012. Instead, Ogden officials ordered us to cease writing about anything remotely related to the lawsuit. .outer_percentage { Bill Nutting soon made it known I was also his choice to be editor, according to Pattillo. The latter also began managing and directing the company as the third generation. A paragliderslashlimo driver wrote in calling for a boycott of the Times. } else { background-color: #f9f9f9; We have other responsible news outlets that could cover what happened to me and to the Times. A primary election took place on June 10, 2014, and a general election was held on November 4, 2014. 30 passed in November.) text-align: left !important; As the court put it, The record shows that there is only one Evil Empire in baseball and it is the New York Yankees. If only it were true. } .results_row td:first-child { You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. A viral video shows an awkward moment in which Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting poses alongside a fan wearing a "sell the team" t-shirt. $('#emessage64502674bd8e0').empty(); The deadline for write-in candidates to run in the primary election was April 28, 2014, and the deadline for non-party candidates to run in the general election was June 2, 2014. background-color: grey; .indicate_scroll { There have been some bumps along the way the past four months, enough so that I am ready to take a different path.. As if all that werent enough, an Amway meeting space/recruiting center recently moved into Citi Field. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. float: left; column-rule: 1px solid #aaa; Robert Nutting (born 1947) is a Republican politician from Maine who served six terms in the Maine House of Representatives. tForeground: "#444444", if (document.getElementById('leg-hnt-content6450267552154').classList.contains('leg-hnt-hide')) { There were no incumbents in this race. we asked ourselves and one another during lunch-hour ski laps and over after-work drinks. Former commissioner (and former Brewers owner) BudSelighad this to say about him in theNew York Times: Mark is quiet, thoughtfulhe has a personality that really fits Milwaukee, even though hes not from here. } Robert Nuttings daughters, Cameron Nutting, Lachlan Nutting, and Taylor Nutting, must have grown up enjoying a comfortable lifestyle as they come from an influential business family. var s = "64502674ae4c1"; width: 90%; Nutting served as the Speaker of the House from 2011-2012. Despite record spending, Maine still has many problems we need to solve: a massive drug problem, schoolchildren falling behind those in other countries, the serious shortage of health care workers, tradesmen, and first responders. And Ogden kept the pressure on me to sign. Ogden was beginning settlement discussions with Doronin and, it said, any coverage of him, his suit, or Gorsuch Haus would disrupt those. padding-left: 0; padding-left: 8px; They dont have an alternative platform for the letter writers and the angry elected officials. (The Times production editor, the last person to touch the papers files before it goes to bed nightly, ran the story on Sunday and was prepared to get fired for it, appending an odd note at the end: The decision to publish this Denver Post story was entirely at the discretion of production editor Benjamin Welch. He wasnt fired, but he later resigned.) We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. With a Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. WebRobert Nutting (born 1947) is a Republican politician from Maine who served six terms in the Maine House of Representatives. .widget-row.Democratic { z-index:100; width: 35px !important; But letters to the editor kept pouring into the paper, and Carroll kept digging. The candidate filing deadline was March 15, 20 Milwaukee Brewers:By all accounts, MarkAttanasiois alaid-back, baseball-savvy guywho also happens to run an investment company that manages some $11 billion in assets. padding-top: 8px;
.rcvvotebox { (She also launched a super-PAC to supportLGBTcandidates.) Finally, on August 9, the paper ran a version of the Rick Carroll story theyd killed back in April. } float: right; Maine House of Representatives District 66, .infobox { } Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. padding-top: 3px; My story is populated by blue bloods and thin-skinned billionaires, including the owners of the Pittsburgh Pirates, a litigious Soviet-born developer, and the wealthy cousin of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. } As Nutting spoke, I Googled his company. In the newsroom, we wondered how Ogden had so quickly and thoroughly abandoned the bedrock principle of editorial independence to let powerful forces dictate the terms of our reporting. We didnt have to wait long for the first sign of trouble. Krauses last day as editor was Tuesday, May 17, a month after the suit was filed. It came that very first day, when Ogden sent a press release about the change of ownership to David Krause, the editor, and instructed him to run it in the next days paper. } He also served in the chamber from 1999 to 2006. Stanford did tell us about how, when he worked at the Steamboat Pilot & Today, he had written a column about his experiences skiing that contained the line powder sucks. This anecdote did not endear him to our team. But at least they arent a hedge fund, I thought. Last week made me wonder if the foundation the hometown paper has stood solidly on for hundreds of years in this nation is finally cracking, Marolt wrote. } width: 100%; border: 1px solid #999; The Aspen Times has chosen to sensationalize a false narrative that targets Mr. Doronin simply because he was born in what is today Russia in order to attack the development of a luxury resort in Aspen, the 17-page court filing reads. Although the Times eventually republished the Marolt column from Junethis time with none of the internal emailsit went nearly four months without running any new reporting on Doronin. You will receive a FedEx package at your house tomorrow with your final check. $('#selected_round64502674ae4c1').html(this.value); Chicago Cubs:Remember the plan hatched last year by Cubs family patriarch JoeRickettsto defeat the metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln (a.k.a. } The ranks of Major League Baseball owners include some of the richest menand they are almost exclusively white malesin the country, as likely to open their wallets for a super-PAC as they are a top-shelf free agent. The next week, the people who now controlled the content of the Times traveled to Aspen for damage control and personnel management. }); function defer(){window.jQuery?indicateScroll():setTimeout(function(){defer()},500)}function indicateScroll(){jQuery(".votebox").each(function(e){if(jQuery(".results_table_container").get(e).scrollHeight>580){let o=jQuery(".votebox .indicate_scroll").get(e);jQuery(o).html("Scroll for more ")}})}defer(); Elections for the Maine House of Representatives took place in 2016. font-weight: 100; } fontFamily: "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif", On top of that, the Mets stadium sold its naming rights to Citigroup in 2006 for $400 million, a few years before the bank had received$45 billion in TARP money. border-top: 1px solid #aaa; } overflow-y: auto; Dejan Kovacevic: "Bob Nutting voted yes on an agreement that'll keep killing baseball in Pittsburgh, so he must think it's fine. text-align: center; He gives millions to charter schools, but takes even more out of the citys coffers thanks to asweetheart dealthat allows him to pay just 25 percent of the standard property tax rate for the United Center (home of the NBAs Chicago Bulls, which he also owns). The more we reported, the more the paper was inundated: a cascade of correction and retraction demands from Doronins people on nearly everything we published about him. On April 13, Doronin filed a defamation lawsuit against the Times. font-size: 1.2em; At 1:22 p.m. on May 25, Allison Pattillo wrote to the staff with what initially seemed like good news: The settlement was signed. Doronins PR reps soon contacted Krause, the Times editor, arguing that Colsons use of the word oligarch and his implication about ties to Putin were defamatory. } Nutting married Wendy Libby in 1968. He has the same passion I have for the game, and he lives and dies with each pitch, which I can understand completely. ButSelig is terrible, so never mind. .key-messages li {margin-bottom: 10px;} } Pattillo approved in principle, though she didnt read the column before it was published. This is all complete BS and bullying (my opinion). The next day, he announced his departure to the staff. While Kendrick claimed to oppose the bill, the Republican donor also reportedly held a private fundraiser for an SB 1070 proponent, state Sen. Jonathan Paton, in his private box at Chase Field. width: 100%; At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Nutting served on the following committees: At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Nutting served on the following committees: In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Nutting served on the following committees: In the 2009-2010 legislative session, Nutting served on the following committees: The following table lists bills sponsored by this legislator. background-color: #db0000; Whatever happens, though, hes probably better than CharlesComiskey. During that time, the team hasnt had a single winning season. They discussed organizing a walkout, publishing a coordinated social-media post, starting a new media organization, making a statement to the Daily News. padding-left: 10px; The signature filing deadline for party candidates wishing to run in this election was March 17, 2014. } Contact our sales team. In 2011 and 2012, he gavemore than $100,000to Republican candidates and committees, including $30,800 to the National Republican Congressional Committee. .inner_percentage.CrossFiled { display: block; The primary election took place on June 14, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. } .leg-hnt-leadership-title { margin: 8px auto; .votebox-results-metadata { var s = "64502674bd8e0"; The deadline for write-in candidates to run in the general election was September 22, 2014. .image-candidate-thumbnail-wrapper .image-candidate-thumbnail { } Nuffsaid. $('#emessage'+s).empty(); Michael Perkins defeated Alan Tibbetts in the Maine House of Representatives District 77 general election. padding-top: 5px; There were no incumbents in this race. Sternbergs only political gift in 2012, a grand total of $1,000, went to Sen. KirstenGillibrand(D-NY). .race_header { margin-top: 0px; var s = "64502674ae4c1"; Miami Marlins:JeffreyLoria, the millionaire art dealer andCharlie Brown-as-philosophy author, is widely consideredthe worst baseball owner of his generation. His current term ends on December 4, 2024. margin: 3px 0; Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Inexpensive, too! } $('.hideResponses').hide(); Longtime Kennebec County register of probate to retire in June. After yet another column was spiked, Marolt quit in protest and went to the Daily News. font-weight: 100; background-color:white !important; I proved what I set out to prove, he said, that the American Dream really is fucked.). }
. Krause was under orders to send any item mentioning Doronin up the chain to Stanford, the group publisher, in Gypsum, Colorado, and ultimately to Ogden headquarters in West Virginia for approval, which never came. Ogden had not bought those apartments from Swift, nor had it bought any of the buildings housing newsrooms. Where the dive bar Cooper Street Pier once beckoned ski bums for pitchers and pool, the Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli now sells cashmere suits and $15,000 parkas. Hedge funds, of course, have produced some of the worst excesses in an industry notorious for them, while arguably producing little of merit for society. .votebox-results-cell--number { margin-bottom:0px; const abcde =JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(x)); color: #888; How a Soviet-born developer and a West Virginia billionaire destroyed a 141-year-old Colorado newspaper, Here in Aspen, the air is thin, the snow is perfect, and money is everywhere. } margin: 0 5px; width: 43%; z-index:1; display: inline-block; (Doronin has not been sanctioned and says he has no ties to Putin or Russia.) background: #4c4c4c; } The CEOs, the mysterious tycoons, and figures like the former Starwood homeowner Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan liveusually very part-timein compounds that employ a whole valley of service workers, and their six-figure property-tax bills fund good schools, public amenities, and subsidized employee housing for those of us in Aspens middle-class underclass. Prior to its acquisition by Goldman, it had been fined $1 million by the National Association of Securities Dealers for delaying paperwork in order to secure a competitive advantage, protect its interests and maximize its profits or minimize its losses. But by the standards of21st-centuryWall Street, the Rays Goldman-stocked front officeably chronicled in Jonah KerisThe Extra 2%looks more George Bailey than BernieMadoff. B.S. He was born in the U.S.S.R., amassed a fortune transforming Soviet industrial real estate into office space for Western companies like IBM and Philip Morris, expanded into developing international luxury resorts, and had also found time to date (and rather bitterly and publicly separate from) the supermodel Naomi Campbell. text-align: center; They did, however, manage to trademark the expression Evil Empire.. width: 100% .mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, We seemed to be a safe harbor for small-town journalists. background-color: red; }) ), With the restrictions on Doronin coverage ostensibly lifted, however, I finally signed my offer letter on Wednesday, June 8. It looks like you do not have any active subscriptions. (function() { Bob Hope was friends with Nixon. The day before, Pattillo had directed me to reach out to Roger Marolt about how to tell readers why his column had been missing for those two weeks; Roger sent a draft and we planned to publish it, along with the two spiked columns as well as email correspondence about Ogdens censorship in an extended online version. font-weight: 300; Since taking over as owner in 2007, Bob Nutting's Pittsburgh Pirates franchise has made the playoffs just three times, and the club will not be making it a fourth time in 2022.