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Forget news, is McClatchy a real estate play?
Shares of McClatchy stock hit their lowest price in a couple decades Friday, reducing the market cap of the nation’s third largest publisher of newspapers to about $900 million.
That’s a stop-the-presses number. Ten years ago, McClatchy paid one and a half times that amount for just one newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, which it is has since sold.
McClatchy’s stock price fell more than 70 percent in 2007. If the trend continues, it won’t be long before one of the company’s dominant assets will be the land and buildings it owns in fast-growing urban areas like Sacramento, Miami, Charlotte, Kansas City and Fort Worth.
Investors may not value newspaper operations anymore, but there is a steady appetite for prime commercial real estate. And McClatchy, with 31 dailies in 29 markets, has some.
CEO Gary Pruitt isn’t ready to put on his Realtor’s jacket just yet. He told The Wall Street Journal in December: “I think the future is bright for newspapers.”
But in the news business these days, it’s always good to have a Plan B.
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Patti Solis Doyle regroups for NH primary
Patti Solis Doyle, campaign manager for Hillary Clinton, is in the fight of her life.
Doyle, whose ties to Clinton go back to 1991, when she was hired as Clinton’s scheduler, has five days to turn the tide. After a solid defeat in Iowa, the New Hampshire primary is a crucial contest for a candidate who was once considered a Democratic shoo-in.
This is Doyle’s first national campaign. Although she prefers to stay behind the scenes, she is known as a fiercely competitive person who runs a tight, well-organized operation. She has described herself as “tough as dirt.” (Story continues below interactive map.)
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The daughter of Mexican immigrants and sister of Chicago City Council President Daniel Solis, Doyle has long enjoyed the friendship and full confidence of her boss. She helped strategize Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2000 and has headed her political operations in recent years.She is married to Jim Doyle, senior VP at Penn Schoen and Berland. The firm’s president, Mark Penn, is Clinton’s pollster.
There’s no indication yet of any reorganization in the Clinton camp. Last week, Clinton dismissed such speculation. “There’s no turmoil, no shake-up,” she told the Wall Street Journal. “I have total trust in Patti, who’s my campaign manager, confidante and friend.”
The candidate boarded a plane at midnight, heading for New Hampshire, hoping to repeat her husband’s 1992 victory there.
“Hillary is going to continue making the case that in these serious times when America faces big challenges, it will take a leader with the strength and experience to deliver real change,” Doyle told reporters.
“This race begins tonight and ends when Democrats throughout America have their say. Our campaign was built for a marathon and we have the resources to run a national race in the weeks ahead.”
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Will Barack Obama and Ron Paul win in Iowa?
If traffic to a candidate’s web site is any indication of popularity in the Iowa caucuses, Barack Obama and Ron Paul will be the winners after the votes are tallied this evening.
Web site traffic statistics provided by Alexa show Obama with a clear lead in the Democratic contest over second-place finisher Hillary Clinton. (Story continues below interactive map.)
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John Edwards lands in third place with Joe Biden taking a distant fourth and Christopher Dodd finishing fifth. Bill Richardson’s doesn’t even break the top 100,000 websites, so there is little data on Alexa about their traffic trends.
On the Republican side, congressman and internet fundraising star Ron Paul’s web site has a clear lead over the rest of the field with Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee finishing second followed by former Massachusettes Governor Mitt Romney and U.S. Senator John McCain. Traffic for actor and former Sen. Fred Thompson took a nosedive at the end of December, when he was ahead of both Romney and McCain.
Of course, using web traffic as a polling tool is completely unscientific, but as the population ages and more and more internet users become voters, analysis of web traffic trends may become another tool used to predict the outcome of elections in the future. We’ll find out the real results once the caucuses are finished this evening and see how good a predictor traffic to a web site is in gauging voter popularity.
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RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT !!!
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HOLY CRAP!
Ron Paul is at .05
compared to Obama at .012
Ron has more than quadrupled Barack’s traffic!!!
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This is going to get increasingly exciting as the night goes by.Even the msm are saying RP will do better than polls show.
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