esquire.com – A week ago, Forbes informed us that the IBTimes was going through another brutal round of layoffs in its newsroom, cutting at least 30 people from a staff that already had lost 15 people only three months ago. This strikes me as a shame because the IBTimes, through the work of David Sirota, has been all over an interesting story of crony capitalism involving a massive $54-billion proposed merger negotiated between Cigna and Anthem, two giant healthcare insurance companies, and the involvement in that merger of a good chunk of Connecticut’s political elite, including Democratic Governor Dan Malloy.