The Hartford City Council has passed a resolution opposing a potential purchase of the Hartford Courant newspaper by the Koch brothers. The Courant has an article and the text of the resolution, which I saw linked at JimRomenesko.com.
The idea that the government should have a say in who is allowed to own newspapers seems to me to be fundamentally at odds with the freedom of the press principle embodied in the First Amendment to the Constitution and in the Connecticut State Constitution, which says, "No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press."
It is really something that the mere prospect — not an announced deal or a consummated deal, just the prospect — of deep-pocketed, free-market-oriented newspaper owners has the politicians so alarmed that they doing everything they can to stop it.