No, really.  Recently a three-foot long black snake was ushered out of the building by a security officer.  And mice are regular visitors.

Those problems are caused by the Times not having an exterminator service for their Washington offices.

The reason for that is a split among the Sun Myung Moon children over the future of his fortune.

Perhaps a brief recap is in order:  The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by the Unification Church's Reverend Moon "...because American-led U.N. forces, in the process of saving my country during the Korean War, liberated me from a communist concentration camp where I had been imprisoned."

Since its founding, the Times has served as a sturdy voice for conservative views, but it has never been a commercial success.

Back to the present, Rev. Moon's son Justin, who controls many Church enterprises in Asia has drastically cut the newspaper's annual subsidy, estimated to be in the neighborhood of $2 Billion since the paper began.

Rev. Moon's eldest son Preston who leads the Times, has been searching for new partners or even a buyer for the newspaper.

But these are not golden times for newspapers.

Read all about it in The Washington Post

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