Thirty-four newspaper entities received $27 million in forgiven Paycheck Prtection Program loans… some took more than one. That is what Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski, and James Piereson, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discovered in their analysis of payments to various entities.
the PPP loan $s don’t suprise me. Tons of buiness got tons of $. The small company where I worked got $5.5 mill and none of the employees have any idea who got what or where the $ went? over the coming years there’s going to be tons of scandal on an epic scale.
Old Joe
3 years ago
Hmm, looks like the Sun Times is the Hardest Grifting Paper in America!
nixit
3 years ago
The list is missing some NFP newspapers. For example, Growing Community Media group that covers Chicago’s west side and near west suburbs received around $400,000.
Myra Fleener
3 years ago
Good catch McHenry County Blog! Now do farm implement dealers, private schools, and churches.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
the PPP loan $s don’t suprise me. Tons of buiness got tons of $. The small company where I worked got $5.5 mill and none of the employees have any idea who got what or where the $ went? over the coming years there’s going to be tons of scandal on an epic scale.
Hmm, looks like the Sun Times is the Hardest Grifting Paper in America!
The list is missing some NFP newspapers. For example, Growing Community Media group that covers Chicago’s west side and near west suburbs received around $400,000.
Good catch McHenry County Blog! Now do farm implement dealers, private schools, and churches.