All of which brings us to the state of play in Miami, Chicago and Baltimore. Investors interested in buying McClatchy papers like the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald have submitted initial letters of interest to the judge in the company's bankruptcy case. In Chicago, there have been some serious conversations about turning the Tribune into a nonprofit, but nothing that has made it beyond any boardrooms, according to Dean Miller's column. And in Baltimore, Maryland's two U.S. senators, 38 state delegates and 19 state senators were among 6,000 signatories urging Tribune Publishing to sell the Sun to the local group. Despite this upswell of public support, the paper remains firmly in the clutches of Tribune Publishing and Alden Global Capital. "At this point, nothing has changed, so that's where we are," Venetoulis said in late May. He characterized ongoing efforts to buy the Sun as "aspirational."