Ever since the Chicago-based Tribune Company bought Times-Mirror 15 years ago, some Los Angeles civic leaders have called for the L.A. Times to return to local control. After the paper fired a popular publisher and with more newsroom cuts this fall, those calls have grown louder. There's one buyer's name that keeps popping up again and again: Eli Broad. But there are mixed feelings about the 82-year-old billionaire philanthropist taking over the paper.
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