Newsday.com is the only site amongst the major Tribune newspaper sites
that has a Toolbar PageRank of a 5 versus an 8.  I have asked a few
Google employees to help me out but they state the standard response
of 'ask your question in Google Webmaster Help Group'.  So . . . here
I am.

1.  Yes, I know TB PR doesn't matter.  I've tried to explain this to
Newsday but . . . they still want an answer.
2.  Yes, I tried #1 above several times.  But they still want an
answer.
3.  I did a site review and I don't see anything materially different
than what is on the other Tribune newspaper sites (certainly nothing
that would warrant this much of a delta).
4.  There are no warnings in G'Webmaster Tools.
5.  We are pearly white in regards to paid links (we don't need to buy
them and we don't sell them).
6.  The registrar information is slightly different than the other
domains but I doubt that would have an impact.

What am I missing?  I'd prefer a Google Employee response but will
take responses from any SEO that can figure this out.

Brent D. Payne
SEO Manager
Tribune