Blue light blackout

E&P reports: “David Keyes was just about to turn in his 2003 annual budget last week for the Bonner County Daily Bee, a 4,701-daily-circulation newspaper in Sandpoint, Idaho, when his secretary slipped him a message that made him blanch: Sandpoint’s Kmart was among the 326 stores chosen to close as part of the retailer’s plan to exit bankruptcy. Since it opened in 1990, the Sandpoint store has come to be the Daily Bee’s fifth-largest advertiser, accounting for about 8% of the Hagadone Corp. paper’s ad revenue.” As the tides shift, so shift the sands we build on.