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San Jose Mercury-News (via Sirotablog):

A labor union representing workers at nine Knight Ridder newspapers announced Thursday that it was trying to put together an employee-backed bid for the nine papers.

The Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America has retained two advisory firms -- Duff & Phelps, a Chicago-based investment bank, and Ownership Associates, a Cambridge, Mass.-based consulting firm -- to pursue the possibility of a buyout of the papers. According to Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley, the union has been in contact with ``worker friendly'' private equity funds that were possibly interested in backing a bid.

But, it didn't work out this time (LA Times):

Knight Ridder Inc., which put itself up for sale last month, has rebuffed an initial effort by union workers to bid on some of its 32 daily newspapers.

San Jose-based Knight Ridder and its investment bank, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., told the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America that the company would only consider bids for all of its assets, union President Linda Foley said Thursday.

The Olympian wasn't part of the deal, but if a newspaper union did end up buying the our paper, it wouldn't be the first time a union ran a newspaper in western Washington. The Seattle Union Record was a strike paper run by the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild during the Times/PI newspaper strike in 2000/2001.

From One Pissed Off Veteran:

Chris Bliss has started something called the Foundation Foundation, and the goal is to place in public places in each state a copy of the Bill of Rights. They are starting with the states that have the Ten Commandments already on display, so people can do some "comparison shopping" and see which of the two sets of laws is truly representative of the rule of law we have in this country.

As the state capital, Olympia would be the logical place to locate such a monument.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Mike Wood and his wife were just stopping by the bank, when they saw a man run out the door with another close behind. They quickly realized they were watching a robbery in progress and decided to drive after the fleeing suspect.

When they reached him, Wood jumped out of the car, grabbed the robber's arm and twisted it behind his back. Then he reached his other arm around the man's neck and wrestled him to the ground.

Wood's quick action and the skills he picked up watching his 15-year-old son, Harrison, in martial arts class helped nab a robber with a record.