var ex_votes = t - abcde[this.value].votes; The Marlins boom-and-bust cycles were already diminishing the teams shaky South Floridafanbasewhen along came theMir-inspiredMarlins Park. In 2012, the Maine State Legislature was in session from January 4 through April 14, in recess from April 14 through May 13, and adjourned May 31. } 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. If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you. height: 100%; we asked ourselves and one another during lunch-hour ski laps and over after-work drinks. width: 100%; Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Scott Stanford is coming here, she said. Robert Nutting apparently has been content to collect handsome profits without reinvesting in better personnelalthough the Pirates did manage to secure $228 B.S. Robert Nutting, who currently serves as the President & CEO of Ogden Newspapers Inc., followed the legacy of his dad, G. Ogden Nutting. color: white; dc.embed.loadNote('http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/679115/annotations/98407.js'); Cincinnati Reds:RobertCastellinitook over his familys business and turned it into one of the nations largest fruit, vegetable, and flower distributors. } font-style: italic; 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. display: inline-block; How to run for office | This is a singular American town in many respects. 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. } .votebox_bp_logo { Nutting (Republican Party) ran for election to the Maine House of Representatives to represent District 66. .rcvresults_text { .widget-row { (In response to a request for comment, a spokesperson for Gorsuch said, There is a difference between suppressing accurate and balanced coverage and ensuring that libel does not occur. The spokesperson also cited the fact that the paper had quickly settled a libel claim brought against them by Doronin and issued corrections and retractions as part of that legal agreement. $('#emessage'+s).empty(); The following Thursday, Ogden spiked a second Marolt column. Local businesses have pulled their ads in protest, and Pitkin County commissioners have taken their legal notices to the Daily News. Pittsburgh Pirates owner Bob Nutting is well aware of fans' frustrations heading into the 2021 season. display: flex; position: relative; Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee, who has pushed legislation about frivolous journalism lawsuits, publicly denounced my firing. The day before the column was supposed to runthe day Pattillo assured me the restrictions would soon be liftedKrause emailed Marolt telling him that even an oblique reference was too hot for Ogden. .leg-hnt-flex-column { Soon thereafter, he was back in the news: Arizona legislators passed the states draconian anti-immigration law, SB 1070, and activists were calling for boycotts of the Diamondbacks and the 2011 All-Star Game at Chase Field. margin-bottom:16px; } (The following year, Hunter S. Thompson mounted his Freak Power campaign for sheriff; upon losing, he gave a concession speech at the Hotel Jerome in a Founding Fatherstyle wig. $('.collapse').collapse('hide'); font-size: 0.9em; Nutting won re-election to the Maine House of Representatives in 2014. His career experience includes working as a pharmacist. .leg-hnt-section-title { There were no incumbents in this race. Source. Because scorecards have varying purposes and methodologies, each report should be considered on its own merits. He told me he was resigning and encouraged me to apply for his job. But his biggest crime may have been shutting down the upper deck of the mostly-empty O.co Coliseum, which had become a refuge for fans wishing to smoke pot during the middle innings. .inner_percentage.Libertarian { } var s = "64502674ae4c1"; Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law. justify-content: center; $('.hideResponses').on('click', () => { .percentage_number { text-align: center; Robert Nutting: Republican Social media accounts: NuttingforHouse.com; facebook.com/BobNutting66 Occupation: Retired pharmacist Education: B.S. padding-left: 8px; If something is wrong, you all must do something to stop it Were blessed to have many people living in Aspen with great meansIm appealing to them now. (Interestingly enough, Americas No. Tampa Bay Rays:Goldman Sachs alum Stuart Sternberg took controlling interest of the club in 2005. } padding-left: 8px; Henceforth, he made bank by (mostly) sticking up for the little guytaking on more asbestos companies, the lead paint industry, and a diet pill manufacturer. Years later, he would buy the Cardinals from Anheuser-Busch and raisehundreds of thousands of dollarsto help elect (and reelect) his former partner. border: 1px solid #999; In the days that followed, Ogden introduced our new leadership team. background-color: #dac113; } else { padding: 2px 0; With a Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. margin-bottom: 0; padding-top: 8px; Nutting is a former Republican member of the Maine House of Representatives, representing District 77 from 2008 to 2016. And even though there's zero cushion to miss the mark, we won't be all that in your face about our fundraising again until June. Morenos worst move as an owner was his insistence on giving his team its clunky new, multi-city moniker. font-size: 2em; But Aspens journalists are also the watchdogs and chroniclers of one of the richest towns in America and a site of extreme economic inequality, the exemplar of the phenomenon that academics call super-gentrification, whereas the locals often saythe billionaires are forcing out the millionaires.. They did, however, manage to trademark the expression Evil Empire.. Wed never seen anything like this at the Times. margin-top: 0px; const abcde =JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(x)); }); What's on my ballot? } .votebox-results-cell--check { } 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. } (Months later, Ogden offered a salary adjustment to some employees who lost housing.) Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion. It was clear, he said, that I didnt trust my new bosses. Hedge funds, of course, have produced some of the worst excesses in an industry notorious for them, while arguably producing little of merit for society. We think you are working against us, not for us, and we are going to let you go. He paused. }else if (this.value > 1){ The results have been certified. Maine House 66 covers portions of Kennebec County, including Oakland and parts of Sidney; in Somerset County, Mercer, Smithfield and Starks. } margin-bottom: 0px; var t = '221'; background-color: #f9f9f9; But in recent years, long-established mom-and-pop businesses around Aspens pedestrian mall have closed to make room for more luxury retail shopspurse museums, as they are known. background-color: #db0000; The Times has published since 1881, when Aspen was a silver-mining boomtown, through its postwar rebirth as a ski resort, and now as the home of ideas festivals, wine festivals, $50 entrees, and an awe-inspiring collection of private jets, many owned by billionaires deeply concerned about climate change. tForeground: "#444444", font-size: .9em; In early February 2013, a US Patent and Trademark Office court in Washington, DC, confirmed what baseball fans had suspected for more than a century: The New York Yankees are evil. font-size:0.68em; position: relative; Before March 2022, if Aspen locals had noticed Vladislav Doronin at all, it was because he was just another of the wealthy men who come to town for a few weeks each winter to ski in designer clothes of questionable utilitarian value and create private-plane traffic jams at the airport. Nutting ran unopposed in the November 2 general election. These days, it is run by Bob Nutting and his brother, Bill, as CEO and vice president, respectively, with their fatherthe elderly and little-seen patriarch G. Ogden padding-left: 10px; Net worth in billion U.S. dollars. But there are probably worse ways to make your money than what Slates Matt Yglesias calls a scam where one class of rich people rips off another class of rich people. When minority partner Phillip Morse (who founded a medical device company) chartered his private jet to the CIA, he never expected that it might end up being used for something nefariouslike the rendition of terror suspects to countries with less humane methods of interrogation. 32, which would have kept unions and corporations from using automatic payroll deductions to bankroll political activity, and $200,000 forKarl Roves American Crossroads. She had turned in a full story about Hauensteins speech, but Pattillo and Stanford had edited it down to a few paragraphs. The Marolt columns disappeared from the Times website on Saturday and took on a contraband cachet on social media. .results_row.winner { (Among other things, the agencys report included anallegationthat Crane had told subordinates, Once you hire blacks, you can never fire them.) Crane gave $45,800 to political causes in 2012, most of it to the Obama Victory Fundwhich may explain why hewent golfingwith theprezand Tiger Woods in February. 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. 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.. We seemed to be a safe harbor for small-town journalists. The more we reported, the more the paper was inundated: a cascade of correction and retraction demands from Doronins people on nearly everything we published about him. Get your things and leave the premises immediately. Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update. position: absolute; The deadline for write-in candidates to run in the primary election was April 28, 2014, and the deadline for non-party candidates to run in the general election was June 2, 2014. .votebox_legend { Dejan Kovacevic: "Bob Nutting voted yes on an agreement that'll keep killing baseball in Pittsburgh, so he must think it's fine. During that time, the team hasnt had a single winning season. San Diego Padres:Last year,Southern California beer distributor Ron Fowlerheaded up an ownership group that included the son and four grandsons of former big-league ownerWalter OMalley, the guy who moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. But thats not good enough. We dont really have anything to add to that. } (At one point, the companys annual employee turnover rate hit 400 percent.) $('#candidate-connection-email-118219').on('click', () => { ga('send', 'event', 'surveycta', 'surveycta-click-email'); }); font-weight: 100; A one-day veto session was held on April 29. | position: relative; The key to success in Augusta is forming relationships with members of all parties. } .results_row.winner { To contribute to the list of Maine scorecards, email suggestions to editor@ballotpedia.org. Openness to the public and media is essential to democracy. He was born in the U.S.S.R., amassed a fortune transforming Soviet industrial real estate into office space for Western companies like IBM and Philip Morris, expanded into developing international luxury resorts, and had also found time to date (and rather bitterly and publicly separate from) the supermodel Naomi Campbell. letter-spacing: 0.03em; I find that to be a real disservice to our community.. padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: #ccf; font-weight: 300; display: block; border-radius: 6px; In the eight weeks that followed, The Times published nothingno letters, columns, or news storiesabout Doronin or the development. } A city-council member speculated in our pages that the land had been a nice safe place to park money. Stickers were pasted around downtown with the word GORSUCKS emblazoned below a Soviet hammer and sickle. Incumbent Robert Nutting (R) did not seek re-election. padding-bottom: 0px; } margin: 0; OK, then, let's see a $100M payroll in 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. .non_result_row th { Quality of life or homeless crackdown in Lewiston? .electionsectionheading { $(document).ready(function(){ .widget-row.Republican { But the newsroom worried this was an attempt to censor our journalism. .votebox-results-metadata { You can share 5 more gift articles this month. Married to Wendy Nutting; three children, five grandchildren. 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.. The following list may not be comprehensive. Houston Astros:Jim Cranes company, Eagle Global Logistics, was forced to pay the federal government more than $4.3 million to settle charges of war profiteering related to contracts in Iraq. Former commissioner (and former Brewers owner) BudSelighad this to say about him in theNew York Times: Mark is quiet, thoughtfulhe has a personality that really fits Milwaukee, even though hes not from here. The team talked about what to do next. } I was there because Nuttings company, Ogden Newspapers, had just bought us. $('.showResponses').show(); width: 250px; I know we can do better. width: 100% float: left; Meanwhile, word of my firing was spreading through town. overflow: hidden; .inner_percentage.CrossFiled { margin: 0 5px; .inner_percentage.Green { A 19-year veteran columnist at the Times and a fifth-generation Aspenite from an old mining and skiing family, Marolt had opposed the 2019 Gorsuch Haus campaign, but the new column was relatively innocuous. Then she asked me about Doronin. }); The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Robert Nutting in round 1 . display: block; font-style: italic; In a town where the developable land is finite and the wealth is seemingly limitless, the sale was big news. } There have been some bumps along the way the past four months, enough so that I am ready to take a different path.. .non_result_row th { Odgen CEO Robert M. Nutting told employees in meetings on Tuesday that they will all retain their positions through the transition. .race_header { fontFamily: "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif", .widget-value { margin-bottom: -2px !important; } The paper, which was based for much of its history in a purple-painted building between a drugstore and the Hotel Jerome, developed a reputation for shoe-leather reporting and accountability journalism. .votebox-results-metadata-p { width: 35px !important; const abcde =JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(x)); Carroll was instructed to not pursue the story further. The next week, the people who now controlled the content of the Times traveled to Aspen for damage control and personnel management. background-color: green; .inner_percentage.Green { } $('.collapse').collapse('show'); (Krause was unhappy about this, but felt that his hands were tied. He runs afour-star resortin Pennsylvania* and achain of small newspapers. But most towns dont have an Aspen Daily News or an Aspen Public Radio. color: white; Just eight months earlier, Gorsuch and his partners had bought the plot from the Aspen Skiing Company for just $10 million. } background-color: #f4f4f4; Stanford was already seated at the table, laptop open. As if all that werent enough, an Amway meeting space/recruiting center recently moved into Citi Field. margin-top: 1em; } color: #fff; } Oakland Town Council, current member; Oakland Lions Club, past president. Bills are monitored by BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. .key-messages li:last-child { margin-bottom: 0px;} .key-messages li {margin-bottom: 10px;} } })(); See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection. if (l > 1){ The week of July 4, it was five, including just two full-time reporters.

. width: 150px; letter-spacing: 0.03em; font-size: .9em; Correction: This piece originally placed Robert Nuttings luxury resort in West Virginia. The Daily News ran a story; for weeks, letters to the editor and columns about the situation would dominate its commentary pages. I joined The Aspen Times as an editor in 2014, after a seven-year tenure at the Aspen Daily News. Ballotpedia features 408,488 encyclopedic articles written and curated by our professional staff of editors, writers, and researchers. The Union and Sierra Sun newspapers are being sold to a well-off gentleman named Robert Nutting who is the principal owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team; }) $('#emessage64502674bd8e0').html(' through round ' + this.value + ': ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); }); .inner_percentage { } I didnt know it at the time, but that day Ogden spiked a column about Doronin by Roger Marolt. .non_result_row { .mw-body #mw-content-text h5.rcvrace_header { .inner_percentage { Property sales topped $4.6 billion last year, and the average single-family-home price hit $11 million. var l = '1' Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, "Speakers of the Maine House of Representatives: Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library", "Nutting overbilled state in pharmacy dispute", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Nutting_(politician)&oldid=1126362237, Speakers of the Maine House of Representatives, Republican Party members of the Maine House of Representatives, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 8 December 2022, at 23:30. We could be writing a story every day and running columns every day about this and it would not be enough. Of course, we werent even doing that. Washington Nationals:Nobody tells Ted Lerner what to do, former business magazine publisher Bill Regardie told theWashington Post. var ex_votes = t - abcde[this.value].votes; p.survey-response {white-space: pre-line;} }) background-color: grey; We're a nonprofit (so it's tax-deductible), and reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget. He assumed office on December 7, 2022. I guess Im more of an old school Republican. 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.". Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. In all likelihood, she said, the suit would be officially dismissed in about five days. But letters to the editor kept pouring into the paper, and Carroll kept digging. Minnesota Twins:JimPohlad, a Minneapolis banker, hasnt had much time to prove himself after inheriting the franchise from his late father, Carlwho was infamous for volunteering to kill off the team in exchange for$150 millionfrom Major League Baseball. background: #4c4c4c; } We have been experiencing record-breaking spending and inflation, senseless mandates and regulations which have ruined lives and businesses, policies that will make staying warm in winter or gassing-up the car a serious challenge, and many others. Krauses last day as editor was Tuesday, May 17, a month after the suit was filed. Robert Nutting lives in Oakland, Maine. 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.. margin-right: 10px; display: inline-block; Though oligarch is not on its face a libelous term, Krause agreed to amend the article to read Russian billionaire instead of Russian oligarch and added an editors note saying, Mr. The primary election took place on June 14, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. But at least they arent a hedge fund, I thought. .election_results_text { } background-color: grey; text-align: center; $('.showResponses').hide(); .indicate_scroll { background: #4c4c4c; color: #888; border-radius: 50%; Thats happening [here] right now, this minute, as we speak., Less than nine months ago, on that Tuesday after Thanksgiving when we first virtually met Bob Nutting, the Times editorial team consisted of 13 people. .image-candidate-thumbnail-wrapper .image-candidate-thumbnail { $('#selected_round64502674bd8e0').html(this.value); Now it appears as though we have an out-of-state business that controls the Aspen press, he said. background-color: grey; Maine is a beautiful state with generous, hard-working people. It's us but for your ears. Aspen is strange, but this is a story that could actually take place anywhere. Built last year with $474 million in public financing, the deal, which will end up costing Miami-Dade County$1.1 billion, has madeLoriathesecond least popular personin South Florida (behind Fidel Castro), according to one 2012 poll. } p.survey-question {font-weight:bold;} flex-direction: column; } position: relative; We will contact you with instructions for how to clean out your desk area. 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, See also:Maine House of Representatives elections, 2022. padding-bottom: 8px; Principal owner Ray Davis made his billion on gas pipelines; in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita his company, Energy Transfer, paid the federal government$10 millionto settle an allegation of price manipulation (the company did not admit to any wrongdoing). } .inner_percentage.CrossFiled { } One afternoon, a white guy with dreads to his waist was racking a mountain bike on his Jeep when he spotted me, raised a fist, and said, First Amendment, bro. By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. I know I can re-establish those collegial relationships to pass common sense legislation that helps Mainers. background-color: #6db24f; text-align: center; width: 100%; } background-color: #003388; Longtime Kennebec County register of probate to retire in June. Carroll had been putting together reporting based on court documents that showed that Doronin had transferred his one-third ownership of the Moscow-based Capital Group Development to his mother one day after filing the defamation lawsuit, despite claiming that he had long ceased conducting business in Russia. $(window).unload(function(){$("#round64502674bd8e0").val($("#round64502674bd8e0").children('option').length).change(); Maine House of Representatives District 78, Maine House of Representatives District 77, Maine House of Representatives elections, 2022. complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. font-weight: bold; Arizona Diamondbacks: Ken Kendrick made headlines back in April 2010 when he announced that he had purchased one of the rarest and most expensive baseball cards ever produceda 1909 Honus Wagnerfor $2.8 million. .mw-body #mw-content-text th.votebox-results-cell--text { By the time the scam fell apart in December 2008, Wilpon and his partners had invested some $550 million. margin: 5px auto; Federal courts | The towns corps of reporters covers small-town tropes like high-school musicals and the Fourth of July parade. 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.