GARRY — In 2004, a Michigan publisher sold his collection of about 80 profitable suburban and rural newspapers to a New Jersey-based corporation for $415 million. Cue the thunder. Storm clouds gathered on the horizon. The sale included the daily paper in Pontiac where I was editor in chief. During the previous eight years, the paper was six times named best in it class by the Michigan Press Association. “Who … who … who is our new owner?” I worried. …