'Winter is summer'

Headquarters of The Providence Journal, which is controlled by cost-slashing private-equity investors.

“There are ways to get rich: Find an old corporation,

self-insured, with capital reserves. Borrow

to buy: Then dehire managers; yellow-slip maintenance;

pay public relations to explain how winter is summer….’’

-- From “The One Day,’’ by New Hampshire poet Donald Hall (1928-2018)