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A , but there are a few original articles. It appears a resurrection of the paper is under way. Writer and journalist Mark Twain dispatched a series of articles on Hawaii for The Union in 1866. These were very popular, and many historians credit the series with turning Twain into a journalistic star. Because many people thought that Twain wrote in The Union's building, whenever The Union was struggling financially during the turn of the century, the owners would drag out an old desk and sell it for a princely sum as "the desk where Mark Twain sat." A huge bust of Twain sat in The Union's lobby for nearly three decades before the paper folded. The ''Union'' was owned by Copley Newspapers in the 1960s. During those years, it was the dominant, morning newspaper in Sacramento. Then, in the mid-1970s, The Bee decided to go head-to-head with The Union as a morning newspaper, and promised that The Bee would arrive on the doorstep by 6 a.m. The Union's circulation department couldn't equal that service, and The Bee quickly became the larger of the two dailies. While The Bee had a much larger staff, The Union beat The Bee on a number of huge stories. Among them were the Dorothea Puente Victorian gravesites and the investigative reporting that led to the resignation of Chief of Education Bill Honig. Conservative Financier Richard Mellon Scaife owned the newspaper from 1977 to 1989. While there were reports that Scaife lost millions of dollars every year on the newspaper, he enjoyed having a conservative voice in the capital of the largest state in The Union. In the late 1980s, the newspaper changed from the standard broadsheet size to a tabloid, and The Union launched a marketing campaign called "Grab the Tab." For the most part, it was a failure and the paper suffered losses in circulation. In 1989, Scaife sold the ''Union'' to local real estate developers ''. Benvenuti and Kassis sold the newspaper's press -- which was state-of-the-art in the mid-1960s, creating the best color of newspapers throughout the nation -- in 1991 to a Mexican town. They began to have the paper printed at Herald Printing. Herald's president Ralph Danel Jr. acquired the ''Union'' from Benvenuti and Kassis in November 1992. The selling price was in large part the debt that Benvenuti and Kassis owed Herald for its printing services. In an attempt to reduce losses, circulation was dropped outside of the Sacramento metro area and, two months before its closure, publication was changed from seven days a week to three days a week. The ''Union'' published its final edition on January 14 , 1994 . The cover featured a color photo of the paper's last staff under the blaring headline, "We're History," coined by the newspaper's last editor, Ken Harvey. In late .'' {Link without Title} In the autumn of 2005, Demolition crews started work on the old ''Union'' office building, located at 301 Capitol Mall in downtown Sacramento. The building was constructed in 1967. (Earth Metrics Inc., 1989.) A 53-story High-rise called "The Towers On Capitol Mall " is planned for the ''Union''s previous spot, but by 2007, the developer was struggling to finance the project. If built, it will consist of two separate mixed-use buildings that feature luxury Apartment and Hotel suites. {Link without Title} REFERENCES
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