Less than a year after Tribune Co. launched an innovative plan to combine the newsrooms of The Hartford Courant and a local TV station, a columnist is alleging that the new management forced him out because he wrote unflattering news about a Courant advertiser. George Gombossy created his ...

First, the entirely expected bad news for real estate developers and brokers: The Brooklyn condo market is slipping. According to the third-quarter Brooklyn market report from appraisal firm Miller Samuel, condo sales in the borough dropped from 979 in the third quarter of 2007 to 660 in the same period this year, and the median sales price fell from $529 ...