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...From a regulatory perspective, in the bid's favor is that CMH doesn't fully own anything. Rather, it's a holding company for a cluster of minority stakes, including 25% of pay-TV operator Foxtel, 50% of Fox Sports and 25% of PBL Media, the private-equity vehicle that owns Australia's free-to-air Nine Network. This mixed bag of holdings leads Chenoweth to suspect that Murdoch and Packer are planning "a second transaction that they haven't yet disclosed" - a deal that would turn piecemeal investments into controlling stakes...
Maxine Tuerk, who is part of a local group that opposes rural "cluster houses" like the ones torched on Monday, said that if all such developments were to disappear from Snohomish County, the fast-growing area that contains the crime scene, "it wouldn't bother me one bit - that's exactly what we're working for." Tuerk, a 75-year-old retired real estate broker who lives on a quiet 20-acre parcel in a wooded valley outside the city of Snohomish, added that she does not condone the tactic of burning down new homes to protect the environment...
...sheet left at the crime scene, the key piece of public evidence pointing toward ELF involvement, read: "Built Green? Nope black! McMansions in RCDs r not green. ELF." [RCD stands for Rural Cluster Developments] "The message on that sheet resonates," said a former resident of the Maltby area who now works at a large out-of-state architecture firm and does not want to be identified. "The arsons were terrible and stupid, but it's hard not to be cynical of claims of sustainability by suburban developers...
...strategists argue that the general election will be a close-fought contest that may come down to Florida and Ohio, two states where the Clinton coalition has been strong - or, alternatively, to a cluster of smaller states that includes Arkansas, New Mexico and Nevada. In most of those states, they say, Clinton's supporters will matter more than Obama's appeal among upscale voters and African Americans. They are, in other words, willing to admit that her hard-fought primary campaign could cost the party African-American votes in November...
...campaign slows considerably, Obama's aides say, that will play in favor of a candidate who is gaining strength against a far more established front runner. The next round of primaries in particular will be on friendly territory for Obama. He is expected, for instance, to sweep the Beltway cluster of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, which has a large number of upscale Democrats and African Americans...