And So the War Ends

First it was Little Rock, then it was Northwest Arkansas, but this morning it appears that the final battle of the great, decades long newspaper war in our state has come to an end.

Earlier today, postings of the decisions to approach the Justice Department to clear what essentially is a semi-hostile takeover. It reminds me of the last time such happened -- it was the Northwest Arkansas Times that was to be purchased by then still Springdale News, but intervention in a suiter and a lawsuit from Benton County Daily Record (if memory serves) put that one off.

This time, expect no white knight to ride to the rescue. Typical of our part of the world, however, as we mourn the passing of one of our competing newspapers. More than a few other towns pine for the loss of their only paper -- alas Ann Arbor.