Update, 4:45 p.m.: The initial version of this blog was based on information provided by a source that has been extremely reliable over a period of several years. However, I just received a call from Al Manzi, president and publisher of the Boulder Daily Camera, and CEO of Prairie Mountain Publishing, the firm that oversees the Camera, disputing almost every bit of information it contained.
According to Manzi, Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews Group, which now wholly owns Prairie Mountain
Photo by Michael RobertsThe Daily Camera's longtime HQ.
This past weekend, my family and I took a stroll in one of my favorite places, the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder -- and while the sidewalks were crowded, I saw unmistakable proof that the area isn't immune from the economic downturn. For the first time that I recall, a gaggle of parents and kids weren't lined up in front of Bongo, the balloon man who holds down the sidewalk in front of the Peppercorn store. Instead of making rubbery works o