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Now Musk is being a newspaper proprietor, but for a newspaper that doesn’t write or report its own stories, it’s just based on stories from other people and above it are all of his opinions.
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Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
From Gift Baskets to Community Image Born in France but now a Canadian, Suzanne Smith, 54, is the sole proprietor of Biscuits to Baskets, a coffee shop and chocolatier near Toronto.
—Mercedes Lilienthal, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
The couple owns one-third of the island and are activist proprietors, devoted to preserving its history and culture.
—Noah Lederman, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2024
When a bar called Time Again opened in May on the stub of a dead-end street in Chinatown, the proprietors set out some red and blue plastic stools reminiscent of an elementary-school cafeteria’s.
—The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
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Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2025
From Gift Baskets to Community Image Born in France but now a Canadian, Suzanne Smith, 54, is the sole proprietor of Biscuits to Baskets, a coffee shop and chocolatier near Toronto.
—Mercedes Lilienthal, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
The couple owns one-third of the island and are activist proprietors, devoted to preserving its history and culture.
—Noah Lederman, Robb Report, 29 Dec. 2024
When a bar called Time Again opened in May on the stub of a dead-end street in Chinatown, the proprietors set out some red and blue plastic stools reminiscent of an elementary-school cafeteria’s.
—The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
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