The Register used to be a conservative newspaper, one of very few. Sad to see it gone. Dead tree media is on its death bed, though. I was going to say it will be strange to be in a newspaperless society, but then I remembered I haven’t paid for a newspaper subscription in over twenty years. I blame myself. Heh.
The OC register’s editorial staff is (was) conservative/liberatarian but their regular columnists and staff writers are (were) not. That’s part of the reason I stopped subscribing.
It was far more libertarian than conservative. But it’s not gone, it was sold to this new group when the DOJ put the kibosh on selling it to the LA Times.