One thing that astounded me was the 2009 decision of Booth Newspapers to stop daily publication of most of their newspapers like the Bay City Times, Saginaw News, Flint Journal, Ann Arbor News and Jackson Citizen-Patroit. That absolutely floored me when they decided to go to primarily web content with M-Live, to me a poor substitute.

While I'm at it, What ever happened to the Parker Publications string of suburban weeklys like the Highland Parker, Ferndale Gazette-Times and others. At one time they published 6 or 7 local newspapers.