…since Hearst started a 60-day countdown to either sell, scrap, or drastically shrink the Post-Intelligencer. So far, the corporate brass have publicly issued nothing. Privately, they’ve made lowball offers to a few staffers for an online-only P-I. Several people who’ve gotten these offers have reportedly declined them.

All this time, meanwhile, P-I staffers and friends have quietly (and less-quietly) sought one or more buyers for the paper from among the city’s rich and civic-minded. Now, Slog hears rumors that a potential sale just might (might, mind you) be in the works. Or it could be just rumors.