Could be...
Also as much as liberal newspaper love to humble themselves in front of the black democrat community (or what white liberal ‘elites’ tell them is the black democrat community) - folks who live in inner city hellholes do not subscribe to newspapers in large enough numbers to keep a paper’s door’s open.
*Ok, Chicago’s Defender pulled it off - but that was a black paper..
Cities all over this country are getting exactly what their policies represent. They want political power hubs where they control the government and the votes. They want to urbanize the country’s population to look like China, with everyone living in cubicles. They want to reverse the urban flight that started the exodus from major American cities a generation ago. The taxes, the city crime, the welfare state they’ve created have achieved the exactly what they abhor. Now there’s no logical reason for people to live in these hell holes they’ve created.