The Acorn, a weekly newspaper group in Ventura County, Calif., is quick to point out it has no connection with the other ACORN (in capital letters), a national activist group, that has been grabbing print space and air time lately with investigations focusing on claims of voter registration fraud, notes Grumpy Editor.
The Acorn group of newspapers, with several editions, serves Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Moorpark, Calabasas, Camarillo, Simi Valley and Westlake Village.
The communities are northwest of the city of Los Angeles, just outside Los Angeles County.
ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), is facing FBI investigations on whether it helped to foster voter fraud around the nation.
The Acorn newspapers emphasize on their Web sites they are “in no way affiliated with the advocacy group.” Their publisher, J. Bee NP Publishing Ltd., points out the newspapers are “named after the seed from which tall oak trees grow.”
The ACORN advocacy group, which claims to have more than 1,200 chapters in 110 cities, is accused of submitting false voter registration forms in connection with the upcoming presidential election, for some of the 1.3 million young people, minorities, poor and working class voters it has registered.
Grumpy Editor’s end-of-week leftover notes:
An omen? Lottery tickets in Meta, Colombia, just added a photo of presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, (D., Ill.). BBC News reports 700,000 tickets were sold on the day Obama’s image debuted…Funniest election season line of the month comes from singer-actress Bette Midler. Commenting on spending an excess amount of time watching news channels’ election coverage, she moans: “All the news stories are about the election. All the commercials are for Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection. Either way, we’re getting screwed!”…Seeking a boost in funds, Chicago-based Tribune Co. has tapped $250 million of a $750 million revolving line of credit…South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, in December will start printing the Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Daily News and La Palma…Boston Globe figures it will save about 24 pages a week in printing costs by shifting its standalone business section into the Metro section that contains regional news --- and obituaries…Speaking of Bean Town, a guide, due out next month, focuses on several hundred places to see “the world's most precious and fragile sites that are disappearing at an astonishing rate” affected by climate change. However, one of the sites mentioned that has withstood all types of climate conditions --- heat, deep freezes, blizzards, even hurricanes --- for almost a century: sturdy Fenway Park, Boston, which the author describes as “one of the last original ballparks and a national icon.”
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