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Writing in the L.A. Independent, Beverly Hills author and journalist Tony Castro sounds skeptical that ex-mayor and current power broker Dick Riordan will actually produce a weekly newspaper in September (postponed from June). Castro, who wrote for the old L.A. Herald Examiner, is the author of Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son and is currently working on The Baseball Presidency: The Making of George W. Bush. The Independent, by the way, has a spiffy new website.
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