Sen. Susan Collins did not vote for President Donald Trump’s signature piece of legislation, his so-called Big Beautiful Bill, a massive package of tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans financed by slashing an estimated $1 trillion from Medicaid. “I did the right thing for the people of Maine, and I …
Read More »Kelly Clarkson Sells Stake in Her Catalog to HarbourView Equity Partners
Kelly Clarkson is the latest artist to sell a stake in her catalog to private equity. HarbourView Equity Partners has acquired a portion of her life’s works. The acquisition was announced on Thursday. HarbourView will now own a portion of Clarkson’s biggest hits, including “Since U Been Gone” and “Because …
Read More »How Private Equity Helped Destroy Local News
In 2019, I walked away from my dream job, as editor-in-chief of Deadspin, three months after a private equity firm bought our parent company. Our new CEO seemed categorically uninterested in the work we did, what made us successful, or even what we could improve; he just wanted to issue …
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