IT'S AVAILABLE ON THE C-SPAN NOW FREE MOBILE APP OR WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS. Nutting was born in Maine. Openness to the public and media is essential to democracy. we asked ourselves and one another during lunch-hour ski laps and over after-work drinks. padding-top: 3px; } The topic of this column was the spiking of his previous column. } A primary election took place on June 10, 2014, and a general election was held on November 4, 2014. .infobox p { Suppression of news creates disinformation, and Ogden is the gatekeeper for communities in 18 states. color:#888; A viral video shows an awkward moment in which Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting poses alongside a fan wearing a "sell the team" t-shirt.. The Times ran a short staff report, although it had a reporter in the room as always. background-color: green; It is not, however, the cause of Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting being a cheapskate. color: #0645ad; } width: 215px !important; display:inline-block; var x = '%7B%221%22%3A%7B%22votes%22%3A600%7D%7D'; Allison Pattillo, a local I had hired in 2019 to serve as a contract editor on our seasonal tourist-focused magazines, and who had started full-time in the summer of 2021, would be our new publisher. } .rcvrace_header.Democratic {
.rcv_select { position: absolute; Oakland Athletics:Lewis Wolff, a real estate magnate and hotel developer, bought the As in 2005 and has talked openly about moving the team more or less ever since. $('#candidate-connection-twitter-118219').on('click', () => { ga('send', 'event', 'surveycta', 'surveycta-click-twitter'); }); font-weight: bold; var ex_votes = t - abcde[l].votes; var ex_votes = t - abcde[l].votes; Milwaukee Brewers:By all accounts, MarkAttanasiois alaid-back, baseball-savvy guywho also happens to run an investment company that manages some $11 billion in assets. [4] .mw-body #mw-content-text th.votebox-results-cell--text { padding:7px 8px 8px; $('#selected_round64502674ae4c1').html(this.value); Just eight months earlier, Gorsuch and his partners had bought the plot from the Aspen Skiing Company for just $10 million. padding-left: 0; On Friday, June 10, it ran under the headline An Old, Small Newspaper No Match for New, Big Money., It was kicking up some conversations on the Times Facebook page that morning, but I hadnt gotten any calls or emails about publishing it. Price as the gift that keeps on giving.. width: 50px; margin: 8px auto; var t = '600'; column-rule: 1px solid #aaa; } Managing editor Rick Carroll began digging into Doronins Russian assets and his background as a developer, wading through public documents and questioning Doronins representatives. ), With the restrictions on Doronin coverage ostensibly lifted, however, I finally signed my offer letter on Wednesday, June 8. background-color: #003388; If it is suppressing news stories in other cities and firing editors for attempting to be transparent with the public, nobody would know. New York Mets:Sterling Equities cofounder Fred Wilpon famously was a major mark for Bernie Madoffs Ponzi scheme: At one time, according toThe New Yorkers Jeffrey Toobin, Madoff had 480 accounts from Sterling employees or clients. } Click here for an overview of legislative scorecards in all 50 states. .race_header.democratic { } Then he ended the interview. In it, he called out Doroninthough not by namefor failing to seek locals support for his development. With a Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. .inner_percentage.Democratic { 1) Define what success would look like if you are elected to serve your district. font-size: .9em; The Aspen Times has chosen to sensationalize a false narrative that targets Mr. Doronin simply because he was born in what is today Russia in order to attack the development of a luxury resort in Aspen, the 17-page court filing reads. $('#emessage' +s).html(' Total : ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); Maine is a beautiful state with generous, hard-working people. const abcde =JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(x)); break-inside: avoid-column; The relationship between Aspens masses and its elites has been complicated since lifts started rumbling up the mountain eight decades ago. font-weight: 100; .leg-hnt-responsive-columns { Ballotpedia features 408,488 encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. border-radius: 50%; } We were treated well by our parent company, Swift Communications. The Marlins boom-and-bust cycles were already diminishing the teams shaky South Floridafanbasewhen along came theMir-inspiredMarlins Park. .survey-result {padding:10px;} B.S. She would report to Scott Stanford, who had been a newspaper president in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and whom Ogden had named to oversee its Colorado papers. The Times had been covering the Gorsuch Haus plan for more than three years already, and we ran an editorial criticizing Gorsuch and his partners for trading on his family name and misleading voters. font-size: 12px; $('.showResponses').on('click', () => { And by virtue of being Aspen, we have the eyes of the world on us. Local businesses have pulled their ads in protest, and Pitkin County commissioners have taken their legal notices to the Daily News. By the time the scam fell apart in December 2008, Wilpon and his partners had invested some $550 million. , See also:Maine House of Representatives elections, 2022. .percentage_number { It is Williams who is behind the companys acquisition strategy. Incumbent Robert Nutting (R) did not seek re-election. Nuttings contribution to the general collapse of society has been negligible, however. He graduated from Skowhegan Area High School in 1965 and attained a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1970. .outer_percentage { text-align: center; width: 350px; Current Yanks owners Hal and Hank havent given anything to candidates. During the pandemics urban exodus, private-home development and real-estate sales have been supercharged to levels unheard of even here in Aspen. 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The results have been certified. } padding-left: 16px; position:absolute; } }); (Interestingly enough, Americas No. } padding-bottom: 8px; Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Community Organizations: tForeground: "#444444", background-color: #ccc; } $('.collapse').collapse('show'); font-weight: 200; This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and I learned that Nutting and his family also own the Pittsburgh Pirates, whose fans have nicknamed him Bottom-Line Bob for his habit of cutting loose the best ballplayers as soon as they got too expensive. 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Mainers can participate in public hearings, email or phone their representatives directly, and they can talk directly to their representatives when they see them around town. Philadelphia Phillies:David Montgomery worked his way up through the ranks in the Phillies organization, even working as the teamsscoreboard operatorin the early 70s. Robert Nutting lives in Oakland, Maine. background-color: #003388; A Carroll piece originally headlined Oligarch or Not, New Aspen Investor Has Russian Ties was brightened to New Aspen Investor Has Luxury Hotelier Connections. On each of these stories, a penitent editors note was appended, suggesting that the piece as originally published did not meet The Aspen Times standards for accuracy, fairness and objectivity in its news reporting. Apparently all that this self-proclaimed non-oligarch billionaire and his bulldog lawyers wanted out of their lawsuit was to change some text on AspenTimes.com. But the newsroom worried this was an attempt to censor our journalism. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. In the end, they decided to give compromise one last shot. He assumed office on December 7, 2022. max-width: 600px; Bob Hope was friends with Nixon. color: black; position: absolute; justify-content: center; }else{ And we hope you might consider pitching in before moving on to whatever it is you're about to do next. During that election cycle, Nutting raised a total of $11,560. border-radius: 50%; .rcvtooltip:hover span { padding-bottom: 3px; The guy was born in St. Petersburg, became a billionaire in Moscow real estate, and for calling him a Russian oligarch, he sues and somehow the journalists are losing their jobs? Browder told the crowd assembled in the Hotel Jerome ballroom, next door to the building where Aspen Times reporters had, for decades, kept the powerful accountable. We must fix our crumbling roads and bridges, and lower taxes so people are not driven out of the state they love. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. z-index:1; Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update. Viewed in the context of the competition, with its anti-discrimination settlements and SEC investigations, the Yankees are, like their Opening Day roster, fairly pedestrian. } width: 100% $('#candidate-connection-email-118219').on('click', () => { ga('send', 'event', 'surveycta', 'surveycta-click-email'); }); .votebox_legend { visibility: visible; Sternbergs only political gift in 2012, a grand total of $1,000, went to Sen. KirstenGillibrand(D-NY). (The Times production editor, the last person to touch the papers files before it goes to bed nightly, ran the story on Sunday and was prepared to get fired for it, appending an odd note at the end: The decision to publish this Denver Post story was entirely at the discretion of production editor Benjamin Welch. He wasnt fired, but he later resigned.) } .contact_entity {font-size: 1.0em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: 0.5em;} background-color: #003388; $("#round64502674ae4c1").val($("#round64502674ae4c1").children('option').length).change(); Being able to disagree on policy without being angry or petty has become something of a lost virtue in both Augusta and Washington. His current term ends on December 4, 2024. Property sales topped $4.6 billion last year, and the average single-family-home price hit $11 million. In 2001, Eagle paid a$9 million settlementafter an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found rampant racial and gender discrimination at the company. [16], Robert Nutting raised $6,147 for his campaign.[17]. At the Aspen Ideas Festival, which annually draws media figures, world leaders, and CEOs to the Aspen Institutes Bauhaus-designed campus, the financier turned anti-Putin activist Bill Browder mentioned the Doronin lawsuit and my firing in a public panel. border: 1px solid #a2a9b1 !important; Now it appears as though we have an out-of-state business that controls the Aspen press, he said. Nutting ran unopposed in the November 2 general election. a[aria-expanded=false] .fa-chevron-down { display: none; } During that election cycle, Nutting raised a total of $7,789. Boston Red Sox: John Henry, the teams majority owner, purchased the franchise in 2002 with the earnings from his commodities futures trading company. $(document).ready(function(){ Founded on September 22, 1890 with H. C. Ogdens launch of the Wheeling News, Ogden Newspapers has since grown to over 50 daily newspapers, along with a number of weeklies and a magazine division stretching from New York to Hawaii. .votebox-results-metadata { }else if (this.value > 1){ (Doronin has not been sanctioned and says he has no ties to Putin or Russia.) Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox. top: -1px; Nutting served as the Speaker of the House from 2011-2012. padding: 2px; .contact_office { font-size: 0.8 em; margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;} border: 1px solid #888; (function() { } .widget-row.Green { .race_footer { A viral video shows an awkward moment in which Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting poses alongside a fan wearing a "sell the team" t-shirt. And Ogden kept the pressure on me to sign. padding-left: 16px; In March, he teamed up with a former Secret Service director, a top aide to Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano, and a private prison lobbyist to launchSRB2KLLC, billed as a global security firm. (Were guessing theyll come up with a better name.) | .indicate_scroll { I told her there was no bigger story in Aspen right now. I was there because Nuttings company, Ogden Newspapers, had just bought us. color: #0645ad; } }); .votebox { The following Thursday, Ogden spiked a second Marolt column. background: #4c4c4c; width: 90%; margin-top: 16px; display: inline-block; } .widget-row { .contact_entity {font-size: 1.5em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em;margin-right: 0.5em;} Bills are monitored by BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Robert Nutting (Republican Party) is a member of the Maine House of Representatives, representing District 66. He had left Goldman in 2002, two years after it had acquired his firm, Spear, Leeds & Kelloggand six years before Goldman helped bring down the global economy. They deserve a government that lets them keep more of their own money, leaves them alone when theyre not harming others, and provides them with the basic duties of government: freedom, security, opportunity, and affordable energy and transportation. For example, an advocacy groups scorecard may assess a legislators voting record on one issue while a state newspapers scorecard may evaluate the voting record in its entirety. The video, which already has 1.2 million views as of Thursday (August 4), was shared by the Twitter account @cityofsteelspo1 with the caption "FOR THE YINZERS!!!" Toronto Blue Jays:The Jays are one of only two Major League teams owned entirely by corporations. This was an unusually heavy-handed step for management at a news organization: The staff had assumed we would report our own story, ask questions (like the sale price, which had not been disclosed), and apply the same standard of reporting wed apply to any event. In the days that followed, Ogden introduced our new leadership team. } } font-size: 12px; If there is a version of Vladislav Doronin bullying Ogden in Fort Wayne, Indiana, or Sandusky, Ohio, or Lawrence, Kansas, what would stop them? } .results_row td { text-align: center; background-color: #ccc; I didnt know it at the time, but that day Ogden spiked a column about Doronin by Roger Marolt. Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. font-weight: bold; .mw-body #mw-content-text th.votebox-results-cell--text { font-weight: 100; $('#emessage64502674ae4c1').html(' through round ' + this.value + ': ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); word-wrap: break-word; var s = "64502674ae4c1"; } box-sizing: border-box; Shortly before midnight the day after the sale to Doronin, an Aspen-based affordable-housing developer named Peter Fornell took a can of red spray paint to the window of Gorsuch Ski Cafe and scrawled a most devastating slur: GO BACK TO VAIL. Committee assignments (if elected): .leg-hnt-district-container { The towns corps of reporters covers small-town tropes like high-school musicals and the Fourth of July parade. } top: -120px; $(window).unload(function(){$("#round64502674bd8e0").val($("#round64502674bd8e0").children('option').length).change(); His fellow owners are a bit more active, though. Ballotpedia is in the process of developing an encyclopedic list of published scorecards. Last week made me wonder if the foundation the hometown paper has stood solidly on for hundreds of years in this nation is finally cracking, Marolt wrote. } text-align: center; In the eight weeks that followed, The Times published nothingno letters, columns, or news storiesabout Doronin or the development. background-color: #f9d334; .votebox_bp_logo { Also represented in the Rockies ownership group is former GOP senate candidate Pete Coors, purveyor ofsuper cold beerand brother to Joe CoorsJr., who once predicted that Armageddon would arrive in 2000. Or even baseball: He has been the owner of the Mariners for the last two decades, but has never once been to a game. } Nutting ran unopposed in the June 12 Republican primary and defeated Harry Hayes (Maine) (D) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[12][13]. .rcvtooltip { He was represented by attorneys from the firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, based in Los Angeles. He has the same passion I have for the game, and he lives and dies with each pitch, which I can understand completely. ButSelig is terrible, so never mind. margin: 5px auto; With the purchase, Ogden will Seattle Mariners:HiroshiYamauchiis the former president and chairman of Nintendo, and the man responsible for introducing the world toPokmoneven though he cant stand video games. font-size: 2em; display: flex; padding-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; $('#emessage'+s).empty(); and how he promised Reds fans a World Series when he bought the team in 2006 (passionate anddriven!). left: 0px; Texas Rangers:Compared with one of its previous owners, George W. Bush, who went on to invade two countries and enter the United States into an intractable War on Terror, the Rangers current front office is downright tame. [8][9][10][11], Nutting won re-election in the 2012 election for Maine House of Representatives District 78. backImage: "flat", } How hot is this story? she asked. He also served in the chamber from 1999 to 2006. .votebox_legend { CarlosGimenez, who parlayed his opposition to the stadium deal into a successful run for Miami-Dade mayor, described Marlins Park toSports Illustrateds S.L. Ballot measures, Who represents me? .votebox-results-metadata { Meanwhile, word of my firing was spreading through town. }) After an internet startup, Evil Empire Inc., had attempted to trademark the phrase Baseballs Evil Empire, the Yankees filed an injunction, and the panel of judges agreed. } Heres Pete explaining how poor people caused the financial crisis: Los Angeles Dodgers:Lead owner Mark Walters financial house, Guggenheim Partners, isunder investigationby the Securities and Exchange Commission over his ties to former junk bond trader MichaelMilken. Last year, Perry and co-owner Robert Glaser gave six figures to Republican and Democratic super-PACs, respectively. At a moment when local newspapers face manifold threats to their existence and more and more American cities become news deserts, Aspen was the opposite: a news geyser. .rcvvotebox-results-cell--check { width: 100% !important; display: block; .hideResponses { display: none;} }) In the past, Wendy has also been known as Wendy L Nutting and Wendy L Bailey. Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion. The Denver Post published a story about my firing on Saturday, June 18. padding-left: 10px; Robert Nutting did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey. overflow-x: scroll; How bad could it be? .electionsectionheading { It was a fifth-generation family-owned-and-operated company, as Nutting told us, and as just about everybody from Ogden repeated at every opportunity after the announcement. We really need to see if we'll be able to raise more with this real estate on a daily basis than we have been, so we're hoping to see a promising start. In Aspen, anyway, the town papers seem no match for the insulted billionaire who can outspend them a thousandfold People who dont even live here can control the content of our papers.. $("#round64502674bd8e0").change(function(){ color: #000000; outline: none; (Two of the 5 answers appear to be serious, by the way. Counties | overflow-y: hidden; We didnt have to wait long for the first sign of trouble. In the newsroom, we wondered how Ogden had so quickly and thoroughly abandoned the bedrock principle of editorial independence to let powerful forces dictate the terms of our reporting. .inner_percentage.Libertarian { Thank you., And at the June 14 Aspen city-council meeting, Councilman Ward Hauenstein called on the good rich people of Aspen to take their newspaper back. We dont really have anything to add to that. position: relative; The candidate filing deadline was March 15, 2016. var x = '%7B%221%22%3A%7B%22votes%22%3A221%7D%7D'; In 2011 and 2012, he gavemore than $100,000to Republican candidates and committees, including $30,800 to the National Republican Congressional Committee. .votebox-results-cell--number { I hope it was all for a real good purpose. But Morse wanted to make one thing clear in his interview with the Globe: When its chartered, it never has the logo of the Red Sox on it. Henry gave almost $1 million to Democrats between 1992 and 2004, but nothing in 2012. tBackground: "#CCCCCC", Depending on the election or state, this may not represent all the funds spent on their behalf. padding-top: 8px; .mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, An official labor report alleged that Astros owner Jim Crane told subordinates, Once you hire blacks, you can never fire them., Liberty Media chair John Malone, according to, Miami-Dade Mayor CarlosGimenez, a major foe of the Marlins Park fiasco, called it the gift that keeps giving.. He re-joined the House after a two-year absence in 2008 and was elected speaker by the incoming Republican majority following the 2010 election, becoming the first Republican Maine House Speaker since 1974. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. .rcvresults_table_container { left: 0px; The reality, for these next few months and next few years, is that we have to start finding ways to grow our online supporter base in a big wayand we're optimistic we can keep making real headway by being real with you about this. 2) Characterize your view on public access to governmental business. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. WebLawrence J. Dolan (born February 8, 1931) is an American retired attorney and the principal owner of the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB). font-weight: 200; } }else if (this.value > 1){ fontFamily: "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif", $('#emessage' +s).html(' Total : ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); An overwhelming 71.6 percent of respondents rated Nuttings performance as a 1, for poor and another 21.4 percent categorized themselves as a 2. padding-bottom: 8px; const abcde =JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(x)); We at the Times jumped on all of this. While Kendrick claimed to oppose the bill, the Republican donor also reportedly held a private fundraiser for an SB 1070 proponent, state Sen. Jonathan Paton, in his private box at Chase Field. The next week, 18 current and former Aspen-area elected officials wrote a letter to Bob Nutting denouncing Ogdens muzzling of Doronin reporting, threatening to refuse interviews with the Times and calling for my reinstatement. } The suit also took issue with a letter to the editor the Times published, claiming the letter falsely implied Doronin was using his Aspen investment to launder tainted money from Russia. } color: #6db24f; Through a representative, Doronin said later that his intention with the lawsuit was to address factual inaccuracies and false and defamatory statements that were having a negative impact, not to suppress ongoing coverage.". display: inline-block; top: -5px; The primary election took place on June 14, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. } margin-bottom: 0px; border: 1px solid #999; margin-top: 1em; })(); See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection. position: relative; You can share 5 more gift articles this month. None listed. Cameron Nutting Williams was the next company representative to talk to me about taking the job. The seller was a business entity led by Jeff Gorsuch, a former U.S. ski team downhill racer, a proprietor of a small chain of high-end retail ski shops, and a cousin of Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch. background-color: #6db24f; } flex-wrap: wrap; Net worth in billion U.S. dollars. overflow: hidden; display: inline; We have other responsible news outlets that could cover what happened to me and to the Times. We start with Brian. Doronins spokesperson reached out Tuesday morning to The Aspen Times to threaten a lawsuit about the use of the term oligarch which the Times has amended and pointed out that Doronin has publicly denounced Putins invasion.. Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting is well aware of fans' frustrations heading into the 2021 season. Ogden was beginning settlement discussions with Doronin and, it said, any coverage of him, his suit, or Gorsuch Haus would disrupt those. State legislature | } margin-top: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; The filing goes to great lengths to detail how Doronin earned his wealth legitimately, and argues a semantic fine point: Oligarchs are not merely wealthy individuals of Russian origin; they are individuals who have amassed their wealth through the exploitation of Russian natural resources, corrupt direction of Russian state-owned enterprises, and close political affiliation with Vladimir Putin. This description, the suit argues, does not fit Doronin. I had been fired before my title even changed on the masthead, for doing what I told my bosses I was going to do, after they had promised the restrictions had been lifted. .race_header { document.getElementById('leg-hnt-content6450267552154').classList.remove('leg-hnt-hide'); WebSince 1890. $(".collapse-all").on('click', () => { Two hours later, I walked into the Times conference room, Aspen Mountain framed in the window before me. font-weight: 300; } text-align: left; The terms of the agreement would remain confidential. display: inline-block; var x = '%7B%221%22%3A%7B%22votes%22%3A600%7D%7D'; } display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; A few days later, at a city-council meeting, Aspens mayor made a vague but provocative public comment about the situation: Its come to my attention recently that The Aspen Times, under duress, has been withholding and suppressing some news stories that are important to our community, Torre, the one-named mayor, said. (Having a second paper as an option, commissioners recognized, was an extraordinary privilege.)
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