HILL ‘N’ DON SMASH: Presidential primaries in five East Coast states happen tonight, with front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton predicted to do well.
At this rate, the Ted Cruz-John Kasich alliance to stop Trump could get help from Captain America, the Fantastic Four and the Golden State Warriors … and still fail.
2-4-6-8 who do we depreciate: Newspaper publisher Gannett wants to buy rival Tribune Publishing and take ownership of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and several other big-city papers for about $388 million in cash.
To put this in perspective, The New York Times paid more than $1 billion for a single newspaper, the Boston Globe, in 1993. Times execs must be kicking themselves for not putting the money into single-wide mobile homes in tornado country instead.
Let’s go crazy: Sales of Prince’s music have skyrocketed since the artist’s untimely death last week.
In fact, sexually charged Prince songs like “Little Red Corvette” are being played so often that Tipper Gore is coming out of retirement to demand they be banned.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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