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The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which distinguished itself amid great adversity during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, is about to enact large staff cuts and may cut back its print publishing schedule to several days a week, according to two employees with knowledge of the plans.Newhouse Newspapers, which owns the Times-Picayune, will apparently be working off a blueprint the company used in Ann Arbor, Mich., where it reduced the frequency of the Ann Arbor News, emphasized the Web site as a primary distributor of news and in the process instituted wholesale layoffs to cut costs.A request for comment from the newspaper’s editor, Jim Amoss, late Wednesday night was not returned.The plans have been kept under wraps, but the newspaper will likely cease to exist as a ... Continue reading →
Doug Mills/The New York TimesPresident Obama boarded Marine One on Wednesday for a trip to Colorado to give the commencement address at the Air Force Academy.COLORADO SPRINGS — It’s not every day that a White House boasts of being more conservative than Herbert Hoover. But there was Jay Carney, the presidential press secretary, on Wednesday telling reporters aboard Air Force One that Mr. Hoover was a more profligate spender than President Obama.Clearly unimpressed by the questions he was getting from reporters, Mr. Carney volunteered an extensive and robust answer to one that was not asked, defending Mr. Obama against Republican charges of fiscal recklessness. He read a passage from Rex Nutting of MarketWatch stating that spending under Mr. Obama had grown even more slowly than ... Continue reading →