[Lou L]

This is sad, and I hope it’s not some kind of barometer for election trends in Pennsylvania. It was one of the few papers that aired conservative viewpoints. My parents still enjoyed it as a balance to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

[BikerJoe]

I hope it’s not some kind of barometer for election trends in Pennsylvania Don't think so. As was said above in another post, Richard Mellon Scaife owned the paper. He passed away. It turned out he'd been running the paper at a loss for decades, subsidizing it from a large trust fund that was maybe supposed to be for the kids. On his passing, he left the large trust fund to the paper. The children contested the will and the court then froze the trust fund until the issue was decided. Freezing the trust fund was what precipitated the Trib's problems. As far as I know, the matter is still in the court.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t think this has anything to do with election trends.

This has to do with the slow-roll death of dead tree media in general. And with the fact that the Scaife Family does not share their late father’s enthusiasm for subsidizing it.