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Newspaper
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A newspaper is a serial publication containing news about current events, other informative articles about politics, sports, arts, and so on, and advertising. A newspaper is usually, but not exclusively, printed on relatively inexpensive, the journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. As of 2017, most newspapers are now published online as well as in print, the online versions are called online newspapers or news websites. Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly, News magazines are also weekly, but they have a magazine format. General-interest newspapers typically publish news articles and feature articles on national and international news as well as local news, typically the paper is divided into sections for each of those major groupings. Papers also include articles which have no byline, these articles are written by staff writers, a wide variety of material has been published in newspapers. As of 2017, newspapers may also provide information about new movies, most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. Some newspapers are government-run or at least government-funded, their reliance on advertising revenue, the editorial independence of a newspaper is thus always subject to the interests of someone, whether owners, advertisers, or a government. Some newspapers with high editorial independence, high quality. This is a way to avoid duplicating the expense of reporting from around the world, circa 2005, there were approximately 6,580 daily newspaper titles in the world selling 395 million print copies a day. Worldwide annual revenue approached $100 billion in 2005-7, then plunged during the financial crisis of 2008-9. Revenue in 2016 fell to only $53 billion, hurting every major publisher as their efforts to gain online income fell far short of the goal. Besides remodeling advertising, the internet has also challenged the business models of the era by crowdsourcing both publishing in general and, more specifically, journalism. In addition, the rise of news aggregators, which bundle linked articles from online newspapers. Increasing paywalling of online newspapers may be counteracting those effects, the oldest newspaper still published is the Gazzetta di Mantova, which was established in Mantua in 1664. While online newspapers have increased access to newspapers by people with Internet access, literacy is also a factor which prevents people who cannot read from being able to benefit from reading newspapers. Periodicity, They are published at intervals, typically daily or weekly. This ensures that newspapers can provide information on newly-emerging news stories or events, currency, Its information is as up to date as its publication schedule allows
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Front page of
The New York Times on
Armistice Day, 11 November 1918.
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Journalism
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Title page of Carolus'
Relation from 1609, the earliest newspaper
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Diario de Pernambuco, founded in November 1825 is the second oldest circulating newspaper in South America, after
El Peruano, founded in October of that same year.
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Broadsheet
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A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages. The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material. The first broadsheet newspaper was the Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid/compact formats. Many broadsheets measure approximately 29 1⁄2 by 23 1⁄2 inches per full broadsheet spread, australian and New Zealand broadsheets always have a paper size of A1 per spread. South African broadsheet newspapers have a spread sheet size of 820 by 578 mm or 32.3 by 22.8 in. Others measure 22 inches or 560 millimetres vertically, in the United States, the traditional dimensions for the front page half of a broadsheet are 15 inches wide by 22 3⁄4 inches long. However, in efforts to save newsprint costs many U. S. newspapers have downsized to 12 inches wide by 22 3⁄4 inches long for a folded page. Many rate cards and specification cards refer to the size with dimensions representing the front page half of a broadsheet size, rather than the full. Some quote actual page size and others quote the area size. The two versions of the broadsheet are, Full broadsheet – The full broadsheet typically is folded vertically in half so that it forms four pages, the four pages are called a spread. Half broadsheet – The half broadsheet is usually a page that is not folded vertically and just includes a front. In uncommon instances, an entire newspaper can be a two-page half broadsheet or four-page full broadsheet, totally self-contained advertising circulars inserted in a newspaper in the same format are referred to as broadsheets. Broadsheets typically are also folded horizontally in half to accommodate newsstand display space, the horizontal fold however does not affect the page numbers and the content remains vertical. The most important newspaper stories are placed above the fold and this contrasts with tabloids which typically do not have a horizontal fold. The broadsheet has since emerged as the most popular format for the dissemination of printed news, historically, broadsheets developed after the British in 1712 placed a tax on newspapers based on the number of their pages. The original purpose of the broadsheet, or broadside, was for the purpose of posting royal proclamations, acts, eventually the people began using the broadsheet as a source for political activism by reprinting speeches, ballads or narrative songs originally performed by bards. With the early mechanization of the 19th century came an increase in production of printed materials including the broadside as well as the penny dreadful. In this period all over Europe began to print their issues on broadsheets
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A broadsheet newspaper
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Comparison of some newspaper sizes with metric paper sizes. Approximate nominal dimensions are in millimetres.
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Charlotte /ˈʃɑːrlət/ is the largest city in the state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County and the second-largest city in the southeastern United States, just behind Jacksonville, Charlotte is the third-fastest growing major city in the United States. In 2014 the estimated population of Charlotte according to the U. S. Census Bureau was 809,958, the Charlotte metropolitan area ranks 22nd-largest in the U. S. and had a 2014 population of 2,380,314. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2014 U. S. Census population estimate of 2,537,990, residents of Charlotte are referred to as Charlotteans. It is listed as a global city by the Globalization. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is an international hub, and was ranked the 23rd-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2013. Charlotte has a subtropical climate. The city is located several miles east of the Catawba River and southeast of Lake Norman, Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller man-made lakes located near the city. The Catawba Native Americans were the first to settle Mecklenburg County and were first recorded in European records around 1567, by 1759 half the Catawba tribe had been killed by smallpox. At the time of their largest population, Catawba people numbered 10,000, Mecklenburg County was initially part of Bath County of New Hanover Precinct, which became New Hanover County in 1729. The western portion of New Hanover split into Bladen County in 1734, Mecklenburg County formed from Anson County in 1762. Further apportionment was made in 1792, with Cabarrus County formed from Mecklenburg and these areas were all part of one of the original six judicial/military districts of North Carolina known as the Salisbury District. The area that is now Charlotte was settled by people of European descent around 1755, Thomas Polk, who later married Thomas Spratts daughter, built his house by the intersection of two Native American trading paths between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. One path ran north–south and was part of the Great Wagon Road, within decades of Polks settling, the area grew to become Charlotte Town, incorporating in 1768. The crossroads, perched atop the Piedmont landscape, became the heart of Uptown Charlotte, in 1770, surveyors marked the streets in a grid pattern for future development. The east–west trading path became Trade Street, and the Great Wagon Road became Tryon Street, in honor of William Tryon, the intersection of Trade and Tryon—commonly known today as Trade & Tryon, or simply The Square—is more properly called Independence Square. While surveying the boundary between the Carolinas in 1772, William Moultrie stopped in Charlotte Town, whose five or six houses were very ordinary built of logs, local leaders came together in 1775 and signed the Mecklenburg Resolves, more popularly known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. While not a declaration of independence from British rule, it is among the first such declarations that eventually led to the American Revolution
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Clockwise:
UNC Charlotte,
Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture,
Duke Energy Center, Charlotte's skyline, First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, Charlotte Main Library and
NASCAR Hall of Fame building
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View of the Old Court House, Charlotte, 1888.
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Uptown Charlotte's skyline
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Little Sugar Creek Greenway in winter
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North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U. S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties, the most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. The state has a range of elevations, from sea level on the coast to 6,684 feet at Mount Mitchell. The climate of the plains is strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the falls in the humid subtropical climate zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the state has a highland climate. North Carolina is bordered by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest, Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, the United States Census Bureau places North Carolina in the South Atlantic division of the southern region. So many ships have been lost off Cape Hatteras that the area is known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the most famous of these is the Queen Annes Revenge, which went aground in Beaufort Inlet in 1718. The coastal plain transitions to the Piedmont region along the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, the Piedmont region of central North Carolina is the states most populous region, containing the six largest cities in the state by population. It consists of rolling countryside frequently broken by hills or low mountain ridges. The Piedmont ranges from about 300 feet in elevation in the east to about 1,500 feet in the west, the western section of the state is part of the Appalachian Mountain range. Among the subranges of the Appalachians located in the state are the Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains, the Black Mountains are the highest in the eastern United States, and culminate in Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet, the highest point east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina has 17 major river basins, the five basins west of the Blue Ridge Mountains flow to the Gulf of Mexico, while the remainder flow to the Atlantic Ocean. Of the 17 basins,11 originate within the state of North Carolina, but only four are contained entirely within the states border – the Cape Fear, the Neuse, the White Oak, and the Tar-Pamlico basin. Elevation above sea level is most responsible for temperature change across the state, the climate is also influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf Stream, especially in the coastal plain. These influences tend to cause warmer winter temperatures along the coast, the coastal plain averages around 1 inch of snow or ice annually, and in many years, there may be no snow or ice at all. North Carolina experiences severe weather in summer and winter, with summer bringing threat of hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rain
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North Carolina topographic map
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The
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Blue Ridge Parkway.
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Deer in the
Eno River as it flows through the Piedmont region of North Carolina
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764
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The signing of the
Mayflower Compact, 1620.
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The
Declaration of Independence: the
Committee of Five presenting their draft to the
Second Continental Congress in 1776
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International Standard Serial Number
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An International Standard Serial Number is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title, ISSN are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature. The ISSN system was first drafted as an International Organization for Standardization international standard in 1971, ISO subcommittee TC 46/SC9 is responsible for maintaining the standard. When a serial with the content is published in more than one media type. For example, many serials are published both in print and electronic media, the ISSN system refers to these types as print ISSN and electronic ISSN, respectively. The format of the ISSN is an eight digit code, divided by a hyphen into two four-digit numbers, as an integer number, it can be represented by the first seven digits. The last code digit, which may be 0-9 or an X, is a check digit. Formally, the form of the ISSN code can be expressed as follows, NNNN-NNNC where N is in the set, a digit character. The ISSN of the journal Hearing Research, for example, is 0378-5955, where the final 5 is the check digit, for calculations, an upper case X in the check digit position indicates a check digit of 10. To confirm the check digit, calculate the sum of all eight digits of the ISSN multiplied by its position in the number, the modulus 11 of the sum must be 0. There is an online ISSN checker that can validate an ISSN, ISSN codes are assigned by a network of ISSN National Centres, usually located at national libraries and coordinated by the ISSN International Centre based in Paris. The International Centre is an organization created in 1974 through an agreement between UNESCO and the French government. The International Centre maintains a database of all ISSNs assigned worldwide, at the end of 2016, the ISSN Register contained records for 1,943,572 items. ISSN and ISBN codes are similar in concept, where ISBNs are assigned to individual books, an ISBN might be assigned for particular issues of a serial, in addition to the ISSN code for the serial as a whole. An ISSN, unlike the ISBN code, is an identifier associated with a serial title. For this reason a new ISSN is assigned to a serial each time it undergoes a major title change, separate ISSNs are needed for serials in different media. Thus, the print and electronic versions of a serial need separate ISSNs. Also, a CD-ROM version and a web version of a serial require different ISSNs since two different media are involved, however, the same ISSN can be used for different file formats of the same online serial
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ISSN encoded in an EAN-13 barcode with sequence variant 0 and issue number 5
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Charlotte metropolitan area
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The Charlotte metropolitan area is a metropolitan area/region of North and South Carolina within and surrounding the city of Charlotte. Located in the Piedmont of the Southeastern United States, the Charlotte metropolitan area is known for its auto racing history. The region is headquarters to 8 Fortune 500 and 7 Fortune 1000 companies including Bank of America, Duke Energy, Sealed Air Corporation, Nucor Steel, additional headquarters include Harris Teeter, Food Lion, Cheerwine and Sundrop. It is home to one of the worlds busiest airports, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the Charlotte MSA is the largest in the Carolinas, and the sixth largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern region of the United States behind Washington, D. C. The Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia Metropolitan Statistical Area is defined as seven counties in North Carolina, the population of the MSA was 2,426,363 according to 2015 Census estimates. Charlotte is the 17th largest city and 22nd largest metro area in the United States, Charlotte is the 2nd largest city in the Southeast. The aforementioned MSA is the metropolitan area included in the CSA. The term does retain a marketing value, and is also used by many businesses in the area. Metrolina refers to the region includes the cities of, Charlotte, Concord, Gastonia. The term Charlotte USA refers to the 16-county region, which includes 12 counties in North Carolina and 4 counties in South Carolina, the term is championed by the Charlotte Regional Partnership, a non-profit organization made up of both private- and public-sector members from throughout the Charlotte region. This organization represents one of seven officially designated economic development regions in North Carolina and this term, however, is used only sparingly among locals. The official Charlotte metropolitan area includes the Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia MSA, the Charlotte CSA includes all the MSA counties along with the following micropolitan areas, Albemarle and Shelby. The Charlotte Regional Partnership also identifies four additional counties to the what they refer to as the Charlotte Region. S, the Charlotte Area Transit System is the local public transit agency that operates bus service that serves Charlotte and its immediate suburban communities in both North and South Carolina. CATS also operates a rail line and is also building a commuter rail network as a supplement to its established bus transit throughout the region. Plans are for it to stretch initially to Mooresville, Pineville, Matthews, charlotte-Douglas International Airport will be connected to the system by streetcar. The Charlotte region is served by 2 major interstate highways. I-40 also passes through the center of Iredell County, which is the region of the Charlotte metro. Other important US highways in the include, US74, US52, US321, US601
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Uptown Charlotte Skyline
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South Carolina
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South Carolina /ˌsaʊθ kærəˈlaɪnə/ is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the south and west by Georgia across the Savannah River, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U. S. Constitution, doing so on May 23,1788. South Carolina became the first state to vote to secede from the Union on December 20,1860, after the American Civil War, it was readmitted into the United States on June 25,1868. South Carolina is the 40th most extensive and the 23rd most populous U. S. state and its GDP as of 2013 was $183.6 billion, with an annual growth rate of 3. 13%. The capital and largest city is Columbia with a 2013 population of 133,358, South Carolina is named in honor of King Charles I of England, under whose reign the English colony was first formed, with Carolus being Latin for Charles. There is evidence of activity in the area about 12000 years ago. Along the Savannah River were the Apalachee, Yuchi, and the Yamasee, further west were the Cherokee, and along the Catawba River, the Catawba. These tribes were village-dwellers, relying on agriculture as their food source. The Cherokee lived in wattle and daub houses made with wood and clay, about a dozen separate small tribes summered on the coast harvesting oysters and fish, and cultivating corn, peas and beans. Travelling inland as much as 50 miles mostly by canoe, they wintered on the plain, hunting deer and gathering nuts. The names of these survive in place names like Edisto Island, Kiawah Island. The Spanish were the first Europeans in the area, in 1521, founding San Miguel de Gualdape, established with 500 settlers, it was abandoned within a year by 150 survivors. In 1562 French settlers established a settlement at what is now the Charlesfort-Santa Elena archaeological site on Parris Island, three years later the Spanish built a fort on the same site, but withdrew following hostilities with the English navy. In 1629, King Charles I of England established the Province of Carolina an area covering what is now South and North Carolina, Georgia, in the 1670s, English planters from the Barbados established themselves near what is now Charleston. Settlers built rice plantations in the South Carolina Lowcountry, east of the Atlantic Seaboard fall line, settlers came from all over Europe. Plantation labor was done by African slaves who formed the majority of the population by 1720, another cash crop was the Indigo plant, a plant source of blue dye, developed by Eliza Lucas. Meanwhile, in Upstate South Carolina, west of the Fall Line, was settled by farmers and traders. Colonists overthrew the rule, seeing more direct representation
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Released in 2000
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Table Rock State Park in the mountains of South Carolina
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Francis Marion National Forest in
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Mecklenburg County is a county located on the border in the southwestern part of the state of North Carolina, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 919,628 and it increased to 1,034,070 as of the 2015 estimate, making it the most populous county in North Carolina and the first county in the Carolinas to surpass 1 million in population. Its county seat and largest city is Charlotte, NOTE, To see information about the political body, the Mecklenburg County Commission see this link, Mecklenburg County Commission. Mecklenburg County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, on September 12,2013, the county welcomed its one millionth resident. Mecklenburg County was formed in 1762 from the part of Anson County. It was named in commemoration of the marriage of King George III to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, due to unsure boundaries, a large part of south and western Mecklenburg County extended into areas that would later form part of the state of South Carolina. In 1768, most of area was designated Tryon County. Determining the final boundaries of these areas between North and South Carolina was a decades-long process. As population increased in the following the American Revolutionary War. Finally, in 1842 the southeastern part of Mecklenburg County was combined with the part of Anson County to become Union County. The Mecklenburg Resolves were adopted on May 31,1775, http, //www. learnnc. org/lp/editions/nchist-revolution/4263 Mecklenburg continues to celebrate the Meck Dec each year in May. The Date of the Meck Dec is also listed on the Flag of North Carolina, from 1945 to 1972, Mecklenburg County sterilized 403 people who were in the care of county facilities, far more than any other county in North Carolina. This was the result of a science of genetic engineering called eugenics. Preventing certain populations from reproducing - those then classified as feeble-minded, criminal, by this time, the eugenics movement had been discredited in most other parts of the United States. In 1971, Mecklenburg County was the site of an important case in the American civil rights movement, swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education was a suit filed to force the integration of the public schools in Charlotte. In a case brought by William Capacchione, on behalf of his minor daughter. Later in the case, additional plaintiffs, referred to as Grant intervenors joined the Capacchione suit and this led the School Board to take the unusual position of petitioning the Court claiming that they were still discriminating and therefore should be allowed to continue to bus. The Court rejected the School Boards claim and CMS moved to a neighborhood schools model using magnets to entice voluntary diversity
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1923 Map of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina showing original Township boundaries
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Iredell County, North Carolina
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Iredell County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. According to current US Census projections in 2014, the population was 166,675 and its county seat is Statesville, and its largest town is Mooresville. The county was formed in 1788, annexed from Rowan County and it is named for James Iredell, a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States nominated by George Washington. Iredell County is included in the Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia, NC–SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 597 square miles, of which 574 square miles is land and 23 square miles is water. Iredell County is located within the Piedmont Region of central North Carolina, the northwestern section of the county contains the Brushy Mountains, a deeply eroded spur of the Blue Ridge Mountains far to the west. The highest point in Iredell County, Fox Mountain, is in the Brushies, although the Brushies, as they are often called locally, are not high in the normal sense, they do rise prominently above the surrounding countryside. The remainder of Iredell County consists of rolling countryside occasionally broken by low hills. The countys largest river, the Catawba, forms much of its western border, Lake Norman, North Carolinas largest manmade lake, is the most prominent geographic feature of southern Iredell County, it is often called North Carolinas inland sea. Iredell County is an important transportation center for the state, as Interstate 77 and this has given birth to the countys slogan Crossroads for the Future. The northern third of Iredell county is rural and contains no large towns. Iredell County is one of the longest counties in the state, the population density was 277.8 people per square mile. As of 2013 there were 69,325 housing units at a density of 90 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 83. 3% White,12. 3% Black or African American,0. 5% Native American,2. 2% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,1. 68% from other races, and 1. 6% from two or more races. 7. 0% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 70% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the family size was 3.00. In the county, the population was out with 25. 50% under the age of 18,7. 50% from 18 to 24,31. 30% from 25 to 44,23. 30% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 96.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.10 males, as of 2013, the median income for a household in the county was $50,058
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Cabarrus County, North Carolina
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Cabarrus /kʌˈbærʌs/ County is a county located in the south-central part of the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 178,011, the county seat is Concord, which was incorporated in 1803. Cabarrus County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area, among its significant historic sites is the Reed Gold Mine, a National Historic Landmark. The first gold discovered in the United States was found here in 1799, so much gold was mined that President Andrew Jackson established the US Mint to control it. This was an area of cultivation in the antebellum era. Coleman Manufacturing Company, started in 1897, is believed to be the first cotton mill in the nation to be built, Dancy, and partners primarily from Wilmington, North Carolina, although investors also came from capitalists in the county. The county was formed on December 29,1792 from Mecklenburg County, located in the Piedmont, it was named after Stephen Cabarrus of Chowan County, speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons. Beginning about 1750, the county was settled mainly by immigrants, Germans on the eastern side and Scotch-Irish in the western area of the county. When it came time to choose a location for the county seat and county government, each ethnic group wanted the county located close to their populations. Stephen Cabarrus wrote to the citizens pleading with them to come together in peace to choose a location for their county seat, a central area of the county was chosen in 1796 and aptly named Concord, a derivative of two French words with and peace. Representative Paul Barringer introduced a bill into the legislature to incorporate Concord. The town of Concord was begun on land owned by Samuel Huie, the first substantiated gold find in America was in 1799 by young Conrad Reed while playing in Little Meadow Creek, located on the Reed farm in southeastern Cabarrus County. According to research, Conrads find was a gold chunk approximately the size of a shoe and his father John Reed took the nugget into Concord to a silversmith, who informed Reed that the rock did not have any value. The elder Reed returned home with it, holding it for three years until a trip in 1802 to Fayetteville, where he sold the nugget to a jeweler for $3.50, over time John Reed learned that the jeweler sold the large nugget for several thousand dollars. Reed returned to Fayetteville insisting on more just compensation and this discovery and news of the sale spurred the beginning of gold mining in the area. Reed deserted, as did many other Hessians and he traveled from Georgia to North Carolina, where he settled in an ethnic German community sometime around 1787 and began farming. Reed first developed placer mining on his property, then underground mining and his facility became known as Reeds Gold Mine. Large amounts of gold were being discovered at the Reed Gold Mine and in mines in the United States
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Old Cabarrus County Courthouse
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Seal
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Reed Gold Mine
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Union County, North Carolina
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Union County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 201,292, Union County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was formed in 1842 from parts of Anson County and its name was a compromise between Whigs, who wanted to name the new county for Henry Clay, and Democrats, who wanted to name it for Andrew Jackson. The Helms, Starnes, McRorie, and Belk families took a part in the Monroe and Charlotte. Most of these came from Goose Creek Township. Monroe, the county seat of Union County, also became a point during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1958, local NAACP Chapter President Robert F. Williams defended a nine-year-old African-American boy who had been kissed by a girl in an incident known as the Kissing Case. A second African-American boy, aged seven, was convicted and sentenced to live in a juvenile reformatory until he was 21 for simply witnessing the act. In 1961, Williams was accused of kidnapping an elderly white couple, Williams fled and went into exile in Cuba and in the Peoples Republic of China before returning to the United States. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 640 square miles. The population density was 194 people per square mile, there were 45,695 housing units at an average density of 314 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 79. 0% White,11. 7% Black or African American,0. 4% Native American,1. 6% Asian,0. 03% Pacific Islander,5. 3% from other races, and 1. 9% from two or more races. 10. 4% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,6. 10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.94 and the family size was 3.3. In the county, the population was out with 32. 90% under the age of 20,4. 7% from 20 to 24,27. 7% from 25 to 44,25. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36.2 years, Union County is a member of the regional Centralina Council of Governments. Located in the City of Monroe at the Charlotte-Monroe Executive Airport, the event generates crowds that have exceeded 85,000 people making it one of the top 25 tourism related events in the Charlotte Region. Brooklandwood in the Union County town of Mineral Springs is the site of the Queens Cup Steeplechase, the program consists of several races, and is held the last Saturday of April
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Old Union County Courthouse
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Seal
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Entering Union County on
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Lancaster County, South Carolina
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Lancaster County /ˈleɪŋkəstər/ is a county located in the U. S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2016 census estimate, its population was 89,594 and its county seat is Lancaster which has an urban population of 23,979. The county was created in 1785, Lancaster County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located in the Piedmont region, for hundreds of years the Catawba Indians claimed all of present Lancaster County as part of their tribal lands. The Catawba were once considered one of the most powerful Southeastern Siouan-speaking tribes, the Catawba and other Siouan peoples are believed to have coalesced as individual tribes in the Southeast. Primarily involved in agriculture, the Catawba were friendly toward early European Immigrants, when the first White people came in the early 1750s they settled between Rum Creek and Twelve Mile Creek. Waxhaw Creek within this area had taken its name from the Waxhaw Indian tribe, the majority of the new settlers were Scots-Irish from Pennsylvania, others from North Carolina and Virginia joined them. Many of the settlers came to South Carolina from Lancaster. They had named their county for the House of Lancaster which had opposed the House of York in the struggles of 1455-85, the House of Lancaster chose the red rose as their emblem while their neighbor, York County, boasts the white rose. A second settlement was made in the part of the present Lancaster County on Hanging Rock Creek. The first grant was made there in 1752, and included the huge overhanging mass of rock from which the creek takes its name. About the time this section was opened up, others came in and settled along Lynches Creek, Little Lynches creek, Flat Creek, Beaver Creek, and lower Camp Creek. In coming to the Lancaster area, the first settlers had to follow old Indian paths, the Rocky River Road is an old route that originated as an Indian path. Today, the Rocky River Road is part of South Carolina Highway 522, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 555 square miles, of which 549 square miles is land and 6.0 square miles is water. It is bounded on the west by the Catawba River and Sugar Creek, the population density was 112 inhabitants per square mile. There were 24,962 housing units at a density of 46 per square mile. 1. 59% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,23. 70% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the family size was 3.01
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Lancaster County Courthouse
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York County, South Carolina
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York County is a county located in the north-central section of the U. S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 226,073 and its county seat is York, South Carolina, and its largest city is Rock Hill. The county is served by one interstate highway, I-77, York County is part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-Rock Hill SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. With a population of nearly 6,000 at the time of first European contact, the native inhabitants, hernando de Soto passed through the area in the 1540s in his search for gold. The Province of South Carolina was founded in 1670, twelve years later it was divided into three counties. One of these, Craven County, roughly encompassed the northern half of the colony, the first European settlers in the Carolina Piedmont, traditionally called the South Carolina Upcountry, were Scots-Irish Presbyterians. In 1762 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, was formed from western Anson, five years later, the area became part of Tryon County, North Carolina, which comprised all of North Carolina west of the Catawba River and south of Rowan County. This area would remain a part of Tryon County until 1772, after its transfer to South Carolina in 1772, much of the area was known as the New Acquisition. By 1780, the Carolina Upcountry had an population of more than 250,000, predominantly Scots-Irish Presbyterians. The Scots-Irish settled in a dispersed community pattern denoted by communal, clannish, family-related groups known as clachans, much the same as in Pennsylvania and Ulster, the clachans developed around the Presbyterian Kirks, or meetinghouses, and became the forerunners of the congregations. In York County, the Four B churches, all Presbyterian—- Bethel, Bethesda, Beersheba, militia units, or Beat Companies, enrolled every able-bodied man on the frontier. Led by men such as William Billy Hill, William Bratton and these defeats forced Cornwallis northward, and led to his ultimate surrender at Yorktown. After the defeat of the British, Upcountry residents enjoyed a greater share of administration in their region, the area experienced phenomenal growth after the war. In first United States census, York County had a population of 6,604,923 were listed as slaves, less than 15% of the countys population lived in bondage in 1790, while the state averaged 30%. A county seat was laid out in 1786 at Fergus Cross Roads, the new town was first known as the village of York, or more commonly York Court House. In 1841, the town was incorporated as Yorkville, in 1823 its population, was 441—which included 292 whites and 149 blacks. By 1840 the population had reached 600, and in 1850 Yorkville consisted of 93 dwellings and 617 inhabitants, by 1860, the population of the town had topped 1, 300—an increase of more than 125% in only one decade. During the Civil War, the became a focal point for residents from the Lowcountry as a refugee destination during Union occupation of their towns
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York County Courthouse
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"Lieutenant-Colonel
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A view of the Catawba River in the Autumn
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Gaston County, North Carolina
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Gaston County is a county in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 206,086, Dallas served as the original county seat from 1846 until 1911. Gaston County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area and it is the third largest county in the metropolitan area, behind Mecklenburg County and York County, SC. It is located in the southern Piedmont region, of North Carolinas one hundred counties, Gaston County ranks 74th in size, consisting of approximately 364.5 square miles, and is seventh in population. The county has fifteen incorporated towns, the earliest European settlers of Gaston County were principally Scots Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, and English. In the 1750s, Dutch settler James Kuykendall and others constructed the Fort at the Point at the junction of the Catawba, the fort was built because of ongoing hostilities with the Cherokee, but it was apparently never attacked. Most early farms were small, cultivated primarily by White yeoman farmers of English ancestry, North Carolinas colonial policy restricted the size of land grants, and in Gaston County they tended to be about 400 acres each. One of the earliest grants in the area was given to Captain Samuel Cobrin, commander of a militia company. Gaston County was founded in 1846 and it is named for William Gaston, member of the state supreme court. Between 1845 and 1848, Gaston County experienced an industrial boom, during this three-year period, the first three cotton mills in the County were established. Some authorities say that the first one was established by Thomas R. Tate on Mountain Island, near the present site of Duke Energys Mountain Island Dam, other sources say that the first mill was established by the Linebergers and others on the South Fork River near McAdenville. Most sources agree that among the first three mills in operation in the County was the Stowesville Mill, founded by Jasper Stowe, Gaston County still leads all other counties in the country both in the number of spindles in operation and in the number of bales of cotton consumed. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 364 square miles. It belongs to the southern Piedmont physiographic province, most of Gaston County is in the drainage basin of the Catawba River, except for small areas along the western edge of the county which are in the basin of the Broad River. Both the Catawba and Broad Rivers are in the greater Santee River basin, the Catawba forms the eastern border of the county and much of the central part of the county is in the drainage basin of its right tributary, the South Fork Catawba River. The highest point in Gaston County is Kings Pinnacle, a monadnock which sharply rises over 800 feet above the city of Gastonia. Kings Pinnacle rises 1,690 feet above sea level, and is part of Crowders Mountain State Park, the population density was 534 people per square mile. There were 78,842 housing units at a density of 221 per square mile
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Catawba County, North Carolina
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Catawba County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 154,810 and its county seat is Newton, and its largest city is Hickory. Catawba County is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, Catawba County is part of the data center corridor. Maiden is home to the Apple iCloud data center, and Conover is home to the ncDataCampus, Conover is also home to the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn. The county was formed in 1842 from Lincoln County and it was named for the Catawba tribe of Native Americans, who once inhabited the area. German Lutheran farmers settled the area in the 1700s, Catawba County is a member of the regional Western Piedmont Council of Governments. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 413 square miles. The population density was 354 people per square mile, there were 59,919 housing units at an average density of 150 per square mile. 24. 60% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 2.98. In the county, the population was out with 24. 30% under the age of 18,8. 80% from 18 to 24,31. 10% from 25 to 44,23. 50% from 45 to 64. The median age was 36 years, for every 100 females there were 97.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.70 males, the median income for a household in the county was $43,536, and the median income for a family was $47,474. Males had an income of $30,822 versus $23,352 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,358, about 6. 50% of families and 9. 10% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12. 50% of those under age 18 and 9. 70% of those age 65 or over. Most of the county is served by Catawba County Schools, Newton and Conover are served by the Newton-Conover City School System. Most of Hickory is served by the Hickory City School System, lenoir–Rhyne University Catawba Valley Community College Appalachian Center at Hickory NC Center for Engineering Technologies The Catawba County Library System serves the residents of Catawba County. The library system operates 7 libraries throughout the county, the Hickory Public Library System serves the residents of Hickory. The library system operates 2 libraries, The Patrick Beaver Memorial Library, greenway Public Transportation bus service serves the cities of Conover, Hickory, and Newton
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Lincoln County, North Carolina
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Lincoln County is a county located in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 78,265, Lincoln County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was formed in 1779 from the part of Tryon County. It was named for Benjamin Lincoln, a general in the American Revolutionary War, in 1782 the southeastern part of Burke County was annexed to Lincoln County. In 1841 parts of Lincoln County and Rutherford County were combined to form Cleveland County, in 1842 the northern third of Lincoln County became Catawba County. In 1846 the southern half of what was left of Lincoln County became Gaston County. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 307 square miles. The population density was 261.76 people per square mile, there were 33,641 housing units at an average density of 112.51 per square mile. The racial makeup of the county was 89. 4% White,5. 5% Black or African American,0. 3% Native American,0. 5% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,2. 7% from other races, and 1. 6% from two or more races. 6. 7% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race,22. 3% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the family size was 2.97. In the county, the population was out with 23. 6% under the age of 18,7. 5% from 18 to 24,26. 2% from 25 to 44,29. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 40.4 years, for every 100 females there were 98.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.8 males, the median income for a household in the county was $42,456, and the median income for a family was $48,298. Males had an income of $41,441 versus $30,480 for females. The per capita income for the county was $21,861. About 10. 4% of families and 15. 8% of the population were below the poverty line, Lincoln County is a member of the regional Centralina Council of Governments. Gaston College - Community College located in Dallas, North Carolina with a campus in Lincolnton offering associate degree, Certificate
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Hickory, North Carolina
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Hickory is a city located primarily in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States, with parts in adjoining Burke and Caldwell counties. The citys population at the 2010 census was 40,010, in the 1850s, under a huge hickory tree, Henry Robinson built a tavern of logs. The city of Hickory Tavern co-founded by Dolph Shuford, was established in 1863, the first train operated in the city of Hickory Tavern in 1859. The first lot was sold to Henry Link for $45.00 in 1858 and his house is now known as The 1859 Cafe, a restaurant. The community of Hickory was the first for many things in North Carolina, Hickory was also one of the first towns to install electric lights in 1888 and a complete sewage system in 1904. In 1868, Dr. Jeremiah Ingold, pastor of the German Reformed Grace Charge, established Hickorys first school, in 1891, Lenoir–Rhyne University was founded by four Lutheran pastors with 12 initial students. Hickory is home to one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in the United States that is located and operated on the original site. Hickory White, formerly known as Hickory Manufacturing Company, was built in 1902 and has been in operation ever since. During World War II, the factory made ammunition boxes for the U. S. military instead of furniture, Hickory was known in the years after World War II for the Miracle of Hickory. In 1944 the area around Hickory became the center of one of the worst outbreaks of polio ever recorded, residents who were then children recall summers of not being allowed to play outside or visit friends for fear of contracting the disease. Since local facilities were inadequate to treat the victims, the citizens of Hickory, from the time the decision was made until equipment, doctors, and patients were in a new facility, took less than 54 hours. Several more buildings were quickly added, a Red Cross official on the scene praised the project as the most outstanding example of cooperative effort he has ever seen. The Claremont High School Historic District, Elliott–Carnegie Library, First Presbyterian Church, the Hickory Fire Department provides fire suppression, emergency medical services, public education, hazardous materials operations, and fire prevention and inspection with 137 full-time personnel. Seven fire stations are located throughout Hickory to provide a reasonable response time to emergencies. The Hickory Police Department is a municipal police agency with 152 full-time officers. This group of professionals provides law enforcement and community services to the citizens of Hickory, Catawba County EMS provides Advanced Life Support transport services throughout Catawba County, including in the City of Hickory. Ambulances stationed at the Hickory, St. Stephens, and Mountain View bases are responsible for covering the city, to reduce wait time for services, the Hickory Fire Department will respond and provide Basic Life Support, until the arrival of an ambulance. The Hickory Rescue Squad can provide services, if Catawba County units are unavailable
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Union Square, downtown Hickory
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Gastonia, North Carolina
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Gastonia is the largest city and county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is also the second largest satellite city of the Charlotte area, the population was 71,741 at the 2010 Census. Gastonia is the 13th largest city in North Carolina and it is part of the Charlotte metropolitan area, officially designated the Charlotte Metropolitan Statistical Area. Gastonia has experienced growth, with a population increase between 2000 and 2010 of nearly 8. 2%, according to the U. S. Census Bureau. Gastonia is named for William Gaston, member of the North Carolina Supreme Court, wilson House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Loray Mill strike of 1929 in Gastonia, was one of the most notable strikes in the history of the United States. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 50.7 square miles, of which 50.5 square miles is land and 0.23 square miles. Gastonia occupies 14% of the area of Gaston County. As of 2010, there were 71,741 people,27,770 households, the population density was 1,420.6 people per square mile. There were 31,238 housing units at a density of 618.6 per square mile. The racial composition of the city was 63. 0% White,27. 8% Black or African American,1. 3% Asian,0. 4% Native American,5. 2% some other race, and 2. 2% two or more races. 9. 6% of the population were Hispanic or Latino American of any race,27. 1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9. 7% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52, and the family size was 3.05. In the city, the population was out with 24. 7% under the age of 18,8. 9% from 18 to 24,26. 5% from 25 to 44,26. 3% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38.0 years, for every 100 females there were 89.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males, in 2011 the estimated median income for a household in the city was $36,881, and the median income for a family was $44,576. Male full-time workers had an income of $38,151 versus $29,590 for females. The per capita income for the city was $19,277,20. 9% of the population and 18. 3% of families were below the poverty line
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Downtown Gastonia from the northwest
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Child labor at Loray Mill in Gastonia, 1908. Photo by
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Crowder's Mountain, located just inside Gastonia City limits
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Concord, North Carolina
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Concord city in Cabarrus county, in the U. S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 79,066 and it is the county seat and the largest city in Cabarrus County. In terms of population, the city of Concord is the second-largest city in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area and is the twelfth largest city in North Carolina, in 2015, Concord was ranked as the city with the 16th fastest growing economy in the United States. The city was a winner of the All-America City Award in 2004, located near the center of Cabarrus County in the Piedmont region, it is 20 miles northeast of Charlotte center city. Concord is the home to some of North Carolinas top tourist destinations, including NASCARs Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, located in todays rapidly growing northeast quadrant of the Charlotte metropolitan area, was first settled about 1750 by German and Scots-Irish immigrants. The name Concord means with harmony and this name was chosen after a lengthy dispute over where the county seat should be located between the German Lutherans and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. By United States standards, Concord is considered an old town, today, markers identifying the original town limits can be seen in the downtown area. As county seat, Concord became a center of trade and retail for the cotton-producing region, the downtown would be crowded with farmers and townfolk, in addition to lawyers and their clients. During the antebellum era, wealthy was built by planters through the cultivation of cotton as a commodity crop, located in the Piedmont, Concord became a site of industrialization with cotton mills in the late 19th century. Among the owners of the new mills in the area were men of the rising black middle-class in Wilmington, North Carolina, Dancy, and others, who organized Coleman Manufacturing Company in 1897. They built and operated what is believed to have been the first cotton mill owned by blacks in the nation and they hoped to promote economic security for people of color. But the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, with attacks on black areas of the city, caused many deaths. In 1900, Dancy was among more than 2000 blacks who left the city permanently after the riot and he moved to Washington, DC, appointed as the federal Recorder of Deeds, and serving until 1910. The mill operated under black ownership through 1904, hitting difficult times after Coleman died, the brick mill building was later taken over by Fieldcrest Cannon. Within the North Union Historic District is Memorial Garden, located on 3 acres, the garden winds through the 200-year-old cemetery of the First Presbyterian Church. From the time of incorporation in the late 1700s through the 1970s, since then, most annexations have taken place west of the center-city area towards Charlotte. Portions of the city limit boundary adjoin the Cabarrus/Mecklenburg County line, Concord is located in western Cabarrus County at 35°24′16″N 80°36′2″W. The city is located in the Piedmont area of North Carolina, land left untended will typically return to native forest land within a few years
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Monroe, North Carolina
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Monroe is a fast-growing city and the county seat in Union County, North Carolina, United States. The population jumped from 26,228 in 2000 to 32,797 in 2010 and it is the seat of government of Union County and is also part of the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC Metropolitan area. Monroe has a form of government. In 1843, the first Board of County Commissioners, appointed by the General Assembly, selected an area in the center of the county as the county seat and it was named for James Monroe, the country’s fifth president. It became a center for the agricultural areas of the upland region. Since the early 20th century, Ludwig drums and timpani have been manufactured in Monroe, the Ludwig brothers developed a hydraulic action timpani. In 1916 they invented a spring mechanism—the basis for the current Balanced Action Pedal Timpani, Monroe had the typical segregation of the state following World War II, and local blacks, including Marine veteran Robert F. Williams, began to work to gain civil rights. At this time, the city had an estimated at about 12,000. Williams became president of the local NAACP chapter and began to work to public facilities, starting with the library. These had been built with federal funds during the Great Depression of the 1930s and were operated from revenues derived from taxes on blacks as well as whites. In 1958 Williams hired Conrad Lynn, a civil rights attorney from New York City and they had been convicted of molestation and sentenced until age 21 to a reformatory for kissing a white girl their age on the cheek. This became known as the Kissing Case, the former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, talked to the governor to urge restraint, and the case became internationally embarrassing for the United States. After three months, the governor pardoned the boys, there was rising Ku Klux Klan white violence against the minority black community of Monroe during the civil rights years, and Williams began to advocate black armed defense. Mobs attacked pickets marching for the Freedom Riders at the county courthouse and that year, Williams was accused of kidnapping an elderly white couple, when he sheltered them in his house during an explosive situation of high racial tensions. Williams and his wife fled the United States to avoid prosecution for kidnapping and they went into exile for years in Cuba and in the Peoples Republic of China before returning to the United States in 1969. After Williams returned in 1969 and his trial was scheduled in 1975, North Carolina re-evaluated its case, the Jesse Helms family was prominent among the white community iduring these years. Jesse Helms Sr. served as Police and Fire Chief of Monroe for many years, Jesse Helms, Jr. was born and grew up in the town, where whites were Democrats in his youth. He became a politician and was elected five terms as the U. S, senator from North Carolina, switching to the Republican Party as it attracted conservative whites
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Union County Courthouse in downtown Monroe
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Cornelius, North Carolina
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Cornelius is a lakeside town located along Lake Norman in northern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 24,866 at the 2010 census, potts Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. Cornelius is located along Lake Norman in northern Mecklenburg County, the town is approximately located at 35°28′44″N 80°53′04″W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 12.1 square miles. Cornelius is one of three towns in Mecklenburg county north of Charlotte, along with its sister towns - Davidson and Huntersville - Cornelius serves as a suburb to Charlotte, NC. As of 2011, there were 23,000 households, and 3,374 families residing in the town, the population density was 1,415.5 people per square mile. There were 5,716 housing units at a density of 676.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the town was 91. 65% White,5. 62% African American,0. 21% Native American,1. 24% Asian,0. 05% Pacific Islander,0. 50% from other races, and 0. 74% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 79% of the population,27. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the family size was 2.87. In the town, the population was out with 22. 4% under the age of 18,5. 8% from 18 to 24,36. 7% from 25 to 44,27. 2% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 102.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.9 males, according to Claritas Market Statistics, the median household income in 2010 was $83,789. The citizens of Cornelius, NC, attend the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Elementary schools include Cornelius Elementary and JV Washam Elementary. Middle schools include the Bailey Middle School, william Amos Hough High School opened in August 2012 and currently serves over 2000 students. The library is located in the heart of Cornelius, on Catawba Avenue just east of exit 28 on I-77, 35°28′59. 84″N 80°51′50. 68″W Erik Jones - NASCAR driver Kyle Busch - NASCAR driver Official website Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce Visit Lake Norman
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The Cornelius branch of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
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Fort Mill, South Carolina
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Fort Mill, also known as Fort Mill Township, is a suburban town in York County in the U. S. state of South Carolina, and a suburb of the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and is near Rock Hill. Approximately 13,662 people live inside the corporate limits as of the 2015 Census Estimates with a total of 36,119 people residing within the entire urban area. Fort Mill township is home to businesses such as Continental Tire the Americas. Domtar, Mood Media, Springs Industries, AECOM, and serves as the headquarters of Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, DCI World Champions in 2013. The town of Fort Mill was established in 1873, taking its name from a fort built by the British. The Catawba Indians made their home in present-day Fort Mill for many years, scotch-Irish settlers began arriving in the 1750s and 1760s and a small settlement soon developed. Fort Mill grew rapidly in the late 19th century as textile mills were established, after many textile mill shut-downs the town continued to grow rapidly and became a major suburb of Charlotte. Highlights in Fort Mills history include, In the mid-18th century, Thomas Spratt and they spent a night among the friendly Catawba Indians and were invited to stay and live in the area on a large tract of land given to them. They became the first white settlers in the Fort Mill area, the town of Fort Mill was the site of the last Confederate Government Cabinet meeting. Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Cabinet passed through the area during their flight from Richmond in 1865, the last meeting of the full Confederate Cabinet was held at the White Homestead in Fort Mill. Fort Mills Confederate Park contains the only monument to slaves fighting on the Confederate side of the American Civil War. In the 1980s, Fort Mill was the home to TV evangelist Jim Bakkers now defunct Heritage USA, White House, William Elliott White House, and Wilson House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 4.6 square miles. Interstate 77 passes through the portions of the town. SC160 is the main east-west street in Fort Mill, the town of Fort Mill held a final public hearing in October 2008 on a proposed annexation that doubled the towns physical size. Fort Mill has three golf courses, the city also maintains six parks, Harris Street Park, Steele Street Park, Doby Bridge Park, Calhoun Street Park, Veterans P)ark and Walter Elisha Park. Three of the six parks have picnic shelters, childrens playgrounds, Doby Bridge and Harris Street Parks have lighted baseball fields, Steele Street and Harris Street Parks have basketball courts, and Steele Street Park has a small water park. The town also maintains a banquet hall rentable through the parks, Fort Mill is located in a humid subtropical climate, Cfa in the Köppen climate classification
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Raleigh, North Carolina
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Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina, the seat of Wake County in the United States. Raleigh is known as the City of Oaks for its oak trees. The city covers a area of 142.8 square miles. The U. S. Census Bureau estimated the population as 451,066 as of July 1,2015. It is also one of the cities in the country. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County, Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University and is part of the Research Triangle area, together with Durham and Chapel Hill. The Triangle nickname originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, located in Durham and Wake Counties, partway between the three cities and their universities. The Research Triangle region encompasses the U. S. Census Bureaus Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Combined Statistical Area, the Raleigh Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated population of 1,214,516 in 2013. Most of Raleigh is located within Wake County, with a small portion extending into Durham County. Raleigh is an example in the United States of a planned city. It was chosen as the site of the capital in 1788. The city was laid out in a grid pattern with the North Carolina State Capitol in Union Square at the center. Raleigh is home to cultural, educational, and historic sites. The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Raleigh features three venues and serves as the home for the North Carolina Symphony and the Carolina Ballet. Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek is a large music amphitheater located in southeast Raleigh, one U. S. president, Andrew Johnson, was born in Raleigh. Bath, the oldest town in North Carolina, was the first nominal capital from 1705 until 1722, the colony had no permanent institutions of government until the establishment at the new capital New Bern in 1743. In December 1770, Joel Lane successfully petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly to create a new county, on January 5,1771, the bill creating Wake County was passed in the General Assembly. The county was formed from portions of Cumberland, Orange, the county gets its name from Margaret Wake Tryon, the wife of Governor William Tryon
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Downtown Raleigh
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Plan for platting Raleigh by William Christmas, 1792
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Raleigh, North Carolina in 1872
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Columbia, South Carolina
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Columbia is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of South Carolina, with a population of 133,803 as of 2015. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, the name Columbia is a poetic term used for the United States, originating from the name of Christopher Columbus. The city is located approximately 13 miles northwest of the center of South Carolina. It lies at the confluence of the Saluda River and the Broad River, in 1860, the city was the location of the South Carolina Secession Convention, which marked the departure of the first state from the Union in the events leading up to the Civil War. At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Columbia were a people called the Congaree, in May 1540, a Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto traversed what is now Columbia while moving northward. The expedition produced the earliest written records of the area. From the creation of Columbia by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1786, the Congarees, a frontier fort on the west bank of the Congaree River, was the head of navigation in the Santee River system. A ferry was established by the government in 1754 to connect the fort with the growing settlements on the higher ground on the east bank. Like many other significant early settlements in colonial America, Columbia is on the line from the Piedmont region. The fall line is the spot where a river becomes unnavigable when sailing upstream, State Senator John Lewis Gervais of the town of Ninety Six introduced a bill that was approved by the legislature on March 22,1786, to create a new state capital. There was considerable argument over the name for the new city, according to published accounts, Senator Gervais said he hoped that in this town we should find refuge under the wings of COLUMBIA, for that was the name which he wished it to be called. One legislator insisted on the name Washington, but Columbia won by a vote of 11–7 in the state senate, the site was chosen as the new state capital in 1786, due to its central location in the state. The State Legislature first met there in 1790, after remaining under the direct government of the legislature for the first two decades of its existence, Columbia was incorporated as a village in 1805 and then as a city in 1854. Columbia received a stimulus to development when it was connected in a direct water route to Charleston by the Santee Canal. This canal connected the Santee and Cooper rivers in a 22-mile-long section and it was first chartered in 1786 and completed in 1800, making it one of the earliest canals in the United States. With increased railroad traffic, it ceased operation around 1850, the commissioners designed a town of 400 blocks in a 2-mile square along the river. The blocks were divided into lots of 0.5 acres and sold to speculators, buyers had to build a house at least 30 feet long and 18 feet wide within three years or face an annual 5% penalty. The perimeter streets and two streets were 150 feet wide
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Skyline of downtown Columbia
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Seal
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The
Seibels House, c. 1796, is the oldest in Columbia.
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South Carolina State House from the 15th floor of the Main and Gervais Tower
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Washington, D.C.
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Washington, D. C. formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D. C. is the capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,1790, Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, named in honor of President George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land ceded by Virginia, in 1871. Washington had an population of 681,170 as of July 2016. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the population to more than one million during the workweek. The Washington metropolitan area, of which the District is a part, has a population of over 6 million, the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States are in the District, including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court. Washington is home to national monuments and museums, which are primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 176 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of international organizations, trade unions, non-profit organizations, lobbying groups. A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973, However, the Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D. C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, the District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961. Various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people inhabited the lands around the Potomac River when Europeans first visited the area in the early 17th century, One group known as the Nacotchtank maintained settlements around the Anacostia River within the present-day District of Columbia. Conflicts with European colonists and neighboring tribes forced the relocation of the Piscataway people, some of whom established a new settlement in 1699 near Point of Rocks, Maryland. 43, published January 23,1788, James Madison argued that the new government would need authority over a national capital to provide for its own maintenance. Five years earlier, a band of unpaid soldiers besieged Congress while its members were meeting in Philadelphia, known as the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the event emphasized the need for the national government not to rely on any state for its own security. However, the Constitution does not specify a location for the capital, on July 9,1790, Congress passed the Residence Act, which approved the creation of a national capital on the Potomac River. The exact location was to be selected by President George Washington, formed from land donated by the states of Maryland and Virginia, the initial shape of the federal district was a square measuring 10 miles on each side, totaling 100 square miles. Two pre-existing settlements were included in the territory, the port of Georgetown, Maryland, founded in 1751, many of the stones are still standing
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Clockwise from top left:
Smithsonian Institution Building,
Rock Creek Park,
National Mall (including the
Lincoln Memorial in the foreground),
Howard Theatre and the
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
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Map of the District of Columbia in 1835, prior to the
retrocession
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Ford's Theatre in the 19th century, site of the 1865
assassination of
President Lincoln
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Crowds surrounding the
Reflecting Pool during the 1963
March on Washington
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NASCAR
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The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is an American family-owned and operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto-racing sports events. Bill France Sr. founded the company in 1948 and his grandson Brian France became its CEO in 2003, NASCAR is motorsports preeminent stock-car racing organization. The three largest racing-series sanctioned by this company are the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, the company also oversees NASCAR Local Racing, the Whelen Modified Tour, the Whelen All-American Series, and the NASCAR iRacing. com Series. NASCAR sanctions over 1,500 races at over 100 tracks in 39 of the 50 US states as well as in Canada. NASCAR has presented exhibition races at the Suzuka and Motegi circuits in Japan, the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico, NASCAR has its official headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida, and also maintains offices in the North Carolina cities of Charlotte, Concord, and Conover. Regional offices are located in New York City and Los Angeles, with offices in Mexico City. Owing to NASCARs Southern roots, all but a handful of NASCAR teams are based in North Carolina. NASCAR is second to the National Football League among professional sports franchises in terms of television viewers, internationally, its races are broadcast on television in over 150 countries. In 2004, NASCARs Director of Security stated that the company holds 17 of the Top 20 regularly attended single-day sporting events in the world, fortune 500 companies sponsor NASCAR more than any other motor sport, although this sponsorship has declined since the early-2000s. By the time the Bonneville Salt Flats became the location for pursuit of land speed records. Drivers raced on a 4. 1-mile course, consisting of a 1. 5–2. 0-mile stretch of beach as one straightaway, the two straights were connected by two tight, deeply rutted and sand covered turns at each end. Stock car racing in the United States has its origins in bootlegging during Prohibition, bootleggers needed to distribute their illicit products, and they typically used small, fast vehicles to better evade the police. Many of the drivers would modify their cars for speed and handling, as well as increased cargo capacity, the cars continued to improve, and by the late 1940s, races featuring these cars were being run for pride and profit. These races were popular entertainment in the rural Southern United States, most races in those days were of modified cars. Street vehicles were lightened and reinforced, mechanic William France Sr. moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, from Washington, D. C. in 1935 to escape the Great Depression. He was familiar with the history of the area from the speed record attempts. France entered the 1936 Daytona event, finishing fifth and he took over running the course in 1938. He promoted a few races before World War II, France had the notion that people would enjoy watching stock cars race
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Nextel Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) race cars at Infineon Raceway (now Sonoma Raceway) in 2005
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Current NASCAR President
Mike Helton (left) being presented a
Commandant Coin by Admiral
Thomas H. Collins (right) in 2005.
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Junior Johnson, seen here in 1985, was a popular NASCAR driver from the 1950s who began as a bootlegging driver from
Wilkes County, North Carolina.
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Richard Petty 's 1970 426 C.I.
Plymouth Superbird on display.
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WCNC-TV
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WCNC-TV, virtual channel 36, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, the stations signal is relayed on two low-powered translators, W30CR-D in Biscoe and W24AY-D in Lilesville. On cable, WCNC is carried on channel 6 on most area cable systems, the first station to operate on UHF channel 36 in Charlotte signed on the air on December 31,1953 as WAYS-TV, that station changed its call letters to WQMC-TV in 1954. It ceased operations in March 1955, a plan to return it to the air under different ownership in 1957 was unsuccessful. Cy Bahakel bought the license in 1964 and returned it to the air as WCCB. The current incarnation of channel 36 signed on the air on July 9,1967, as WCTU-TV. Dr. Harold W. Twisdale, a dentist from Charlotte, Twisdale and Steel were the lead investors in other planned UHF stations, though WCTU and WATU-TV in Augusta, Georgia were the only two to make it to the air. WCTU was North Carolinas first independent station, beating Hickory-based WHKY-TV to the air by eight months, WCTU was a typical UHF independent, airing a lineup of cartoons, sitcoms, older movies and sporting events. It was also the home of Jim Bakkers television ministry after he broke off from Pat Robertson. The station hit hard times financially and was sold to Ted Turner in 1970, under Turner, it changed its call letters to WRET-TV. He significantly upgraded the programming and made it profitable almost immediately. On July 1,1978, ABC moved its Charlotte affiliation from WCCB to the higher-rated WSOC-TV, conventional wisdom suggested that the longer-established WCCB should have taken the NBC affiliation from WSOC-TV. However, in an upset, NBC moved its affiliation to WRET-TV. NBC chose WRET over WCCB as its new affiliate on the basis of a commitment by Turner to invest $2, within a few months, Action News 36 had become competitive with longer-established WBTV and WSOC-TV. Robert D. Raiford was the stations first news anchor, upon becoming a network affiliate, Turner sold about half of WRET-TVs programming inventory to WCCB, including older sitcoms, movies and most of its inventory of syndicated cartoons. Turners ambitious ownership of the station would not last long, however, in 1980, he sold WRET-TV to Westinghouse Broadcasting, with the proceeds going towards starting CNN. The $20 million purchase price that Westinghouse paid for the station was then the highest ever paid for a UHF station, Westinghouse changed the stations call letters to WPCQ-TV, and added more syndicated game shows and talk shows to its lineup. It was Group Ws only station on the UHF band, under Westinghouse, channel 36 went into a ratings slump that lasted for almost two decades
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WCNC-TV's "NewsChannel 36" logo used until fall 2012.
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Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Rock Hill is the largest city in York County, South Carolina and the fifth-largest city in the state. It is also the fourth-largest city of the Charlotte metropolitan area, behind Charlotte, Concord, the population was 66,154 as of the 2010 Census. Rock Hill is located approximately 25 miles south of Charlotte and approximately 70 miles north of Columbia, succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples lived in the Piedmont for thousands of years. The historic Catawba Indian Nation, a traditionally Siouan-speaking tribe, was here at the time of European encounter, currently the only tribe in South Carolina that is federally recognized, its members live near Rock Hill. Originally, the railroad had hoped to build a station in the village of Ebenezerville which was squarely between Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbia, South Carolina. When approached, however, the locals in Ebenezerville refused to have the run through their village since they considered it dirty. Instead, engineers and surveyors decided to run the two miles away by a local landmark. According to some accounts, the engineers marked the spot on the map, as the three largest landowners in the area, this settled the matter. George Pendleton White contracted with the railroad to build a section of the line, the first passenger train arrived on March 23,1852. A few weeks later, on April 17,1852, the first Rock Hill Post Office opened, now that Rock Hill had a name, a railroad station, and a post office, it began to draw more settlers to the area. Captain J. H. McGinnis built a general store near the station in 1849 or 1850 to provide supplies for the construction. Templeton Black, who had leased the land to McGinnis, decided to devote some of his other adjacent land to building a larger town and he hired a local surveyor, Squire John Roddey, to organize a main street. Black sold his first plot of land along that street to Ira Ferguson for $125 a few weeks before the post office opened, Rock Hill Academy, the first school in Rock Hill, opened in September 1854. Despite its official name, most residents referred to it as the Pine Grove Academy after the pine grove it was located in, ann Hutchinson White, wife of George White, donated the land to the school after her husbands death. The school had 60 male pupils in 1856, a school for girls was opened in the same place. Pre-December 1857, The Indian Land Chronicle, Rock Hills first newspaper, after a change in ownership, it was renamed The Rock Hill Chronicle in 1860. Half of the districts 21,800 residents were slaves, integral to local cotton production, the 4,379 white males in the county formed fourteen infantry companies, some of the men joined cavalry or artillery units instead. By the end of the war,805 of these men were dead, men from Rock Hill and York County were involved in many of the major Civil War battles
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Downtown Rock Hill
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Historic post office in Rock Hill
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Child laborers at Aragon Mill in Rock Hill, 1912. Photo by
Lewis Hine.
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Knight Ridder
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Knight Ridder /ˈrɪdər/ was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by The McClatchy Company on June 27,2006, it was the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States and its headquarters were located in San Jose, California. The corporate ancestors of Knight Ridder were Knight Newspapers, Inc. and Ridder Publications, the first company was founded by John S. As anti-German sentiment increased in the period, Ridder successfully transitioned into English language publishing by acquiring The Journal of Commerce in 1926. Both companies went public in 1969 and merged on July 11,1974, for a brief time, the combined company was the largest newspaper publisher in the United States. Knight Ridder had a history of innovation in technology. It was the first newspaper publisher to experiment with videotex when it launched its Viewtron system in 1983, after investing six years of research and $50 million into the service, Knight Ridder shut down Viewtron in 1986 when the services interactivity features proved more popular than news delivery. Knight-Ridder purchased Dialog Information Services Inc. from Lockheed Corporation in August 1988, in October 1988, the company placed its eight broadcast television stations up for sale to reduce debt and to pay for the purchase of Dialog. It was, at the time, the most expensive acquisition in history. For most of its existence, the company was based in Miami, the internet division had been established there three years earlier. The company rented several floors in a downtown high-rise as its new corporate base, in November 2005, the company announced plans for strategic initiatives, which involved the possible sale of the company. This came after three major institutional shareholders publicly urged management to put the company up for sale, at the time, the company had a higher profit margin than many Fortune 500 companies, including ExxonMobil. On March 13,2006, The McClatchy Company announced its agreement to purchase Knight Ridder for a price of $6.5 billion in cash, stock. The deal gave McClatchy 32 daily newspapers in 29 markets, with a circulation of 3.3 million. However, for reasons, McClatchy decided immediately to resell twelve of these papers. On April 26,2006, McClatchy announced it was selling the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Monterey Herald, merged with PressLink to become MediaStream. Merged with Vu/Text to become MediaStream, acquired by Global Financial trading as Bridge Data. RealCities was a website for Knight-Ridder group
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The Knight Ridder building in downtown
San Jose, California.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
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The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. Owned by Philadelphia Media Network, The Inquirer has the eighteenth largest average weekday U. S. newspaper circulation and has won twenty Pulitzer Prizes and it is the newspaper of record in the Delaware Valley. The paper has risen and fallen in prominence throughout its history, the Inquirer first became a major newspaper during the American Civil War when its war coverage was popular on both sides. The papers circulation dropped after the war, then rose by the end of the 19th century, by the end of the 1960s, The Inquirer trailed its chief competitor, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and lacked modern facilities and experienced staff. In the 1970s, new owners and editors turned the newspaper one of the countrys most prominent. Stan Wischnowski is Vice President of News Operations, the Philadelphia Inquirer was founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer by printer John R. Walker and John Norvell, former editor of Philadelphias largest newspaper, the Aurora & Gazette. Founded on June 1,1829, The Philadelphia Inquirer is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States, however, in 1962, an Inquirer-commissioned historian traced The Inquirer to John Dunlaps The Pennsylvania Packet, which was founded on October 28,1771. In 1850, The Packet was merged with another newspaper, The North American, after Harding acquired The Pennsylvania Inquirer, it was briefly published as an afternoon paper before returning to its original morning format in January 1830. Under Harding, in 1829, The Inquirer moved from its location between Front and Second Streets to between Second and Third Streets. When Harding bought and merged the Morning Journal in January 1830, Ten years later The Inquirer again was moved, this time to its own building at the corner of Third Street and Carters Alley. Harding expanded The Inquirers content and the paper grew into a major Philadelphian newspaper. The expanded content included the addition of fiction, and in 1840, at the time the common practice was to pay little or nothing for the rights of foreign authors works. Harding retired in 1859 and was succeeded by his son William White Harding, William Harding changed the name of the newspaper to its current name, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Harding, in an attempt to increase circulation, cut the price of the paper, in 1859, circulation had been around 7,000, by 1863 it had increased to 70,000. Part of the increase was due to the interest in news during the American Civil War, the Philadelphia Inquirer supported the Union, but Harding wanted their coverage to remain neutral. Confederate generals often sought copies of the paper, believing that the war coverage was accurate. Inquirer journalist Uriah Hunt Painter was at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, initial reports from the government claimed a Union victory, but The Inquirer went with Painters firsthand account
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The paper's May 2, 2011 front page
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The Inquirer Building, formerly the Elverson Building, the home of the newspaper from 1924-2011
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The sign above the entrance to The Inquirer Building
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The former
Strawbridge & Clothier Building at 801 Market Street, where the Inquirer and Daily News offices are now located.
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Philadelphia Daily News
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The Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The newspaper is owned by Philadelphia Media Network which also owns Philadelphias other major newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Daily News began publishing on March 31,1925, under founding editor Lee Ellmaker. By 1930, the circulation exceeded 200,000. In 1954, the newspaper was sold to Matthew McCloskey and then again in 1957 to publisher Walter Annenberg. In 1969, Annenberg sold the Daily News to Knight Ridder, in 2006 Knight Ridder sold the paper to a group of local investors. The Daily News has won the Pulitzer Prize three times and it is currently published as an edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Philadelphia Daily News began publishing on March 31,1925, in its early years, it was dominated by crime stories, sports and sensationalism. By 1930, daily circulation of the morning paper exceeded 200,000, Circulation dropped over the years, and by 1954, the money-losing paper was sold to Matthew McCloskey, a contractor and treasurer of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. In December 1956, the financial condition was so bad that McCloskey got permission from the unions for a 90 percent cut in the workforce. In 1957, McCloskey sold the paper to Walter Annenberg, publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Annenberg killed off the Daily News Sunday edition and made the tabloid into an afternoon paper. In 1969, Annenberg sold both papers to Knight Newspapers Inc. which eventually became Knight Ridder following a merger, under the new ownership, the Daily News returned to morning publication and aimed to be taken more seriously. The papers journalists have won the Pulitzer Prize three times, the paper continues to struggle financially. It was surpassed in circulation, but not readership, by the free daily Metro, when the sale of Knight Ridder to The McClatchy Company was announced in March 2006, there were rumors that McClatchy would close the Daily News. However, in May, before the sale was finalized, it was announced that the Inquirer, a local group led by advertising executive Brian Tierney and co-founder of the Toll Brothers homebuilding firm, Bruce Toll. The deal became official on June 29,2006, the group intended to strengthen the online presence of both papers, and began an extensive ad campaign. Falling circulation and ad revenue caused Philadelphia Media Holdings to make the Daily News into an edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Without making any changes to the Daily News, making it part of The Inquirer would combine the circulation numbers of both papers by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The idea was to make the more attractive to advertisers
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The paper's October 30, 2008 front page
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Detroit Free Press
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The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press and it is sometimes informally referred to as the Freep. It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, the Free Press is also the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, which also publishes USA Today. The Free Press has received ten Pulitzer Prizes and four Emmy Awards and its motto is On Guard Since 1831. The newspaper was begun by John R. Williams and his uncle, Joseph Campau, the first issues were printed on a Washington press purchased from the discontinued Oakland Chronicle of Pontiac, Michigan. It was hauled from Pontiac in a wagon over rough roads to a building at Bates, the press could produce 250 pages an hour, hand operated by two men. The first issues were 14 by 20 inches in size, with five columns of type, Sheldon McKnight became the first publisher with John Pitts Sheldon as editor. In the 1850s, the paper was developed into a leading Democratic publication under the ownership of Wilbur F. Storey, Storey left for the Chicago Times in 1861, taking a lot of the staff with him. In the 1870s ownership passed to William E. Quinby, who continued its Democratic leanings and established a London, in 1940, the Knight Newspapers purchased the Free Press. During the following 47 years the Free Press competed with The Detroit News, the Free Press was delivered and sold as a morning paper while the News was sold and delivered as an evening newspaper. In 1987, the paper entered into a one hundred-year joint operating agreement with its rival, the combined company is called the Detroit Media Partnership. The two papers began to publish joint Saturday and Sunday editions, though the editorial content of each remained separate. At the time, the Detroit Free Press was the tenth highest circulation paper in the United States, july 13,1995, Newspaper Guild-represented employees of the Free Press and News and the pressmen, printers and Teamsters working for the Detroit Newspapers distribution arm went on strike. By October, about 40% of the staffers had crossed the picket line. The strike was resolved in three years later, and the unions remain active at the paper, representing a majority of the employees under their jurisdiction. In 1998, the Free Press vacated its headquarters in downtown Detroit. August 3,2005, Knight Ridder sold the Free Press to the Gannett company, the News, in turn, was sold to MediaNews Group, Gannett continues to be the managing partner in the papers joint operating agreement. The Free Press resumed publication of its own Sunday edition, May 7,2006, a quirk in the operating agreement, however, allows the News to continue printing its editorial page in the Sunday Free Press
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The March 30, 2010 front page of the Detroit Free Press
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Free Press offices 1998–2014
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Home of the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News offices since October 2014
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Miami Herald
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The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a city in western Miami-Dade County several miles west of Miami. Founded in 1903, it is the second largest newspaper in South Florida, serving Miami-Dade, Broward County and it also circulates throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. The newspaper employs over 800 people in Miami and across several bureaus, including Bogotá, Managua, Tallahassee, Vero Beach, Key West, the newspaper has been awarded 20 Pulitzer Prizes since beginning publication in 1903. Well-known columnists include Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts, Jr. Pulitzer-winning reporter Mirta Ojito, humorist Dave Barry, other columnists include Fred Grimm and longtime sportswriter Edwin Pope. Alexandra Villoch is the publisher, and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez is the executive editor, the newspaper averages 88 pages daily and 212 pages on Sundays. The Miami Heralds coverage of Latin American and Hispanic affairs is widely considered among the best of U. S. newspapers. The Miami Herald also participates in Politifact Florida, a website that focuses on the truth about Florida issues, along with the Tampa Bay Times, the Herald and the Times share resources on news stories related to Florida. The first edition was published September 15,1903, as The Miami Evening Record, after the recession of 1907, the newspaper had severe financial difficulties. Its largest creditor was Henry Flagler, through a loan from Henry Flagler, Frank B. Shutts, who was also the founder of the law firm Shutts & Bowen, acquired the paper, although it is the longest continuously published newspaper in Miami, the earliest newspaper in the region was The Tropical Sun, established in 1891. The Miami Metropolis, which later became The Miami News, was founded in 1896, and was the Heralds oldest competitor until 1988, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s, the Miami Herald was the largest newspaper in the world, as measured by lines of advertising. During The Great Depression in the 1930s, the Herald came close to receivership, on October 25,1939, John S. Knight, son of a noted Ohio newspaperman, bought the Herald from Frank B. Knight became editor and publisher, and made his brother, James L. Knight, lee Hills arrived as city editor in September 1942. He later became the Heralds publisher and eventually the chairman of Knight-Ridder Inc. a position he held until 1981, the Miami Herald International Edition, printed by partner newspapers throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, began in 1946. It was extended to Mexico in 2002, the Herald won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1950, for its reporting on Miamis organized crime. Its circulation was 176,000 daily and 204,000 on Sundays, on August 19,1960, construction began on the Herald building on Biscayne Bay. Also on that day, Alvah H. Chapman, started work as James Knights assistant, Chapman was later promoted to Knight-Ridder chairman and chief executive officer. The Herald moved into its new building at One Herald Plaza without missing an edition on March 23–24,1963, publication of a Spanish-language supplemental insert named El Herald began in 1976
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The March 5, 2007 front page of the Miami Herald
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A Miami Herald headline dated August 7, 1945 featuring the
atomic bombing of
Hiroshima, Japan.
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The Miami Herald former headquarters on
Biscayne Bay in the
Omni neighborhood of
Downtown Miami. The Herald moved from its waterfront headquarters in 2013 to a location in suburban Doral. [
dated info]
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Pulitzer Prizes
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The Pulitzer Prize /ˈpʊlᵻtsər/ is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each receives a certificate. The winner in the service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal. The Pulitzer Prize does not automatically consider all applicable works in the media, entries must fit in at least one of the specific prize categories, and cannot simply gain entrance for being literary or musical. Works can also only be entered in a maximum of two categories, regardless of their properties, each year,102 jurors are selected by the Pulitzer Prize Board to serve on 20 separate juries for the 21 award categories, one jury makes recommendations for both photography awards. For each award category, a jury makes three nominations, the board selects the winner by majority vote from the nominations or bypasses the nominations and selects a different entry following a 75% majority vote. The board can also vote to issue no award, the board and journalism jurors are not paid for their work, however, the jurors in letters, music, and drama receive a $2,000 honorarium for the year, and each chair receives $2,500. Anyone whose work has been submitted is called an entrant, the jury selects a group of nominated finalists and announces them, together with the winner for each category. However, some journalists who were submitted, but not nominated as finalists. For example, Bill Dedman of msnbc, Dedman wrote, To call that submission a Pulitzer nomination is like saying that Adam Sandler is an Oscar nominee if Columbia Pictures enters Thats My Boy in the Academy Awards. Many readers realize that the Oscars dont work that way—the studios dont pick the nominees and its just a way of slipping Academy Awards into a bio. The Pulitzers also dont work that way, but fewer people know that, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish the Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships and he specified four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships. After his death, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4,1917, many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Nelson Harding is the person to have won a Prize in two consecutive years, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1927 and 1928. Four prizes Robert Frost, Poetry Eugene ONeill, Drama Robert E, in rare instances, contributors to the entry are singled out in the citation in a manner analogous to individual winners. Journalism awards may be awarded to individuals or newspapers or newspaper staffs, infrequently, Awards are made in categories relating to journalism, arts, letters and fiction
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Pulitzer Prize
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The News and Observer
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The News & Observer is an American regional daily newspaper that serves the greater Triangle area based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The paper is the second largest in the state after The Charlotte Observer, the paper has also been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent of which was in 1996 for a series on the health and environmental impact of North Carolinas booming hogging industry. The paper was one of the first in the world to launch an online version of the publication Nando. net in 1994. The publisher is Orage Quarles, who was named the nations outstanding publisher by Editor, in 2007, John Drescher was named executive editor, succeeding Melanie Sill. The paper struggled to stay relevant and make money leading to a new owner to take over the paper in 1868. With the new owner The Sentinel began to cover the Democrats push to retake the North Carolina Legislature, the Sentinel went bankrupt a little over ten years after the paper was first founded. The owners of the newly founded Raleigh Observer Peter M. Hale and William L. Saunders bought the now bankrupt paper ending its publication and focusing on the Raleigh Observer. After about ten years the paper ran out of money so the two sold to the owner of the Raleigh News, Samuel A. Ashe. Ashe combined the two papers under the new banner The News & Observer in September 1880 making it the sole daily paper in Raleigh, asher ran the company personally until 1894 focusing on politics and the Democratic party. Ashe used connections within the Democratic Party to get a leg on upcoming stories. This model worked well for the paper until Ashe lost favor in the Democratic caucus leading the paper to fall on hard times for the fourth time in its history. In 1894 the paper was yet again sold at auction, this time to a Washington D. C native who was a strong Democrat supporter, josephus Daniels with help from Julian S. Carr and other friends bought the paper. Quickly Daniels refocused the News and Observer to combat political interest, rampant corruption, in 1900 he used the paper to support soon-to-be Governor Charles B. Aycock during his bid for the office and he also used the paper to advocate female suffrage, workers’ compensation, state industrialization, better roads and crop rotation. Daniels also used the News and Observer to persuade North Carolina citizens to support the disenfranchisement of blacks in the 1910s and 1920s, Daniels later renounced the racist tendencies of the 1910s News and Observer. Daniels continue to run the paper until his death in the mid 1940s, after his death his four sons assumed management of the company. On September 3,1934, The News and Observer began a column about politics called Under the Dome, in 1968, the Daniels family hired Claude Sitton, who had been a correspondent for The New York Times and later an editor there. However, its editorials were often aligned with the Democratic Party
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The June 16, 2009 front page of The News & Observer
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The Kansas City Star
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The Kansas City Star is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes, the Star is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. It was also central to government-mandated divestiture of radio and television outlets by newspaper concerns in the late 1950s, Kansas City Star is also the name of a song by the musician Roger Miller, released in 1965. The paper, originally called The Kansas City Evening Star, was founded September 18,1880, by William Rockhill Nelson, Morss quit the newspaper business within a year and a half because of ill health. At the time there were three daily competitors – the Evening Mail, The Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Journal. Competitor Times editor Eugene Field wrote this about the new newspaper, Twinkle, twinkle, little Star Bright and gossipy you are and he purchased the Kansas City Evening Mail in 1882. The paper name was changed to The Kansas City Star in 1885, Nelson started the Weekly Kansas City Star in 1890 and the Sunday Kansas City Star in 1894. In 1901 Nelson also bought the morning paper The Kansas City Times, Nelson announced the arrival of the 24 Hour Star. President Harry S. Truman worked two weeks in August 1902 in the mailroom, making $7.00 the first week, the paper was first printed on the second story of a three-story building at 407–409 Delaware. In 1881 it moved 14 W. 5th Street, in 1882 it moved to 115 W. 6th. In 1889 it moved to 804–806 Wyandotte, in 1911 it moved into its Jarvis Hunt-designed building at 18th and Grand. Nelson provided in his will that his newspaper was to support his wife and daughter, Ernest Hemingway was a reporter for the Star from October 1917 to April 1918. Pete Wellington with changing a wordy high-schoolers writing style into clear, throughout his lifetime he referred to this admonition from The Star Copy Style, the papers style guide, Use short sentences. Nelsons wife died in 1921, his daughter Laura Kirkwood died in a Baltimore hotel room in 1926 at the age of 43, lauras husband Irwin Kirkwood, who was editor of the paper, led the employee purchase. Kirkwood in turn died of an attack in 1927 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Stock in the company was distributed among other employees. Virtually all proceeds from the sale and remains of Nelsons $6 million personal fortune were donated to create the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on the site of Nelsons home, both papers were purchased by the employees in 1926 following the death of Nelsons daughter. Editor Roy A. Roberts was to make the newspaper a major force in Kansas politics, Roberts joined the paper in 1909 and was picked by Nelson for the Washington bureau in 1915
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Sacramento Bee
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The Sacramento Bee is a daily newspaper published in Sacramento, California, in the United States. Since its founding in 1857, The Bee has become the largest newspaper in Sacramento, the fifth largest newspaper in California, the Bee is the flagship of the nationwide McClatchy Company. Its Scoopy Bee mascot, created by Walt Disney in 1943, has been used by all three Bee newspapers. Under the name The Daily Bee, the first issue of the newspaper was published on February 3,1857, proudly boasting that the object of is not only independence, at this time, the Bee was in competition with the Sacramento Union, a newspaper founded in 1851. Although the Bee soon surpassed the Union in popularity, the Union survived until its closing in 1994, the first editor of the Sacramento Bee was Rollin Ridge, but James McClatchy took over the position by the end of the first week. Also within a week of its creation, the Bee uncovered a scandal which led to the impeachment of Know-Nothing California State Treasurer Henry Bates. On March 13,2006, The McClatchy Company announced its agreement to purchase Knight Ridder, the purchase price of $4.5 billion in cash and stock will give McClatchy 32 daily newspapers in 29 markets, with a total circulation of 3.3 million. On February 3,2007, the paper celebrated its 150th anniversary, on February 4,2007, a 120-page section was included about the papers history from its founding to today. On July 29,2008, the Sacramento Bee redesigned and changed its layout, on May 21,2009, the newspaper published an early-version editorial that highly criticized Californians for voting against most of the ballot propositions in a special election. After numerous negative comments were posted by readers, the editorial was taken off the website, a message stated that the early version of the editorial was posted in error. The Sacramento Bee has won six Pulitzer Prizes in its history and it has won numerous other awards, including many for its progressive public service campaigns promoting free speech, anti-racism, workers rights, and environmental protection. The Council is made up of by scientists, media and academics, all concerned with the balanced portrayal of science
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a U. S. daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. Its area of domination is checked by its rival, The Dallas Morning News. It is owned by The McClatchy Company, in May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to finance and run a new newspaper in town. The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper on February 1,1906, the Star lost money, and was in danger of going bankrupt when Carter had an audacious idea, raise additional money and purchase his newspapers main competition, the Fort Worth Telegram. In November 1908, the Star purchased the Telegram for $100,000, the newspaper created WBAP in 1922 and Texas first television station, WBAP-TV, in 1948. The Star-Telegram’s circulation area is the Fort Worth/Arlington metro area and 14 surrounding counties, the newspapers primary market is the four-county Fort Worth/Arlington metro area, as well as the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grand Prairie. The Fort Worth/Arlington metro area is the part of the fourth-largest U. S. metropolitan area. Fort Worth/Arlington ranks 29th most populous as a metro area,1981 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, Larry C. Price for his photographs from Liberia,1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Mark Thompson for reporting which revealed that nearly 250 U. S. The Star-Telegram is the nations oldest continuously operating online newspaper, starText, an ASCII-based service, was started in 1982 and eventually integrated into the papers current website. List of newspapers in Texas Dallas-Fort Worth portal Journalism portal Flemmons, Amon, The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America. The Star-Telegram official site The Star-Telegram official mobile site 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U. S. by Circulation
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Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
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The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoon is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Journalism. Finalists have been announced from 1980, ordinarily two others beside the winner, in its first 92 years to 2013, the Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer was awarded 87 times, none was given in five years and it was never split. Many cartoonists won it more than once. 1935, Ross A. Lewis, Milwaukee Journal, for Sure, Ill Work for Both Sides 1936, no award given 1937, C. D. Batchelor, New York Daily News, for Come on in, Ill treat you right. Berryman, Evening Star, for Where Is the Boat Going, goldberg, New York Sun, for Peace Today 1949, Lute Pease, Newark Evening News, for Who Me. The award is given for distinguished body of the work of Mr. Fitzpatrick in both 1954 and his entire career. Mauldin, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for I won the Nobel Prize for Literature, oliphant, The Denver Post, for They Wont Get Us To The Conference Table. 2016, Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee for cartoons that convey wry, rueful perspectives through sophisticated style that combines bold line work with subtle colors, through 2013, seventeen people have won the Editorial Cartooning Pulitzer twice and five of them have won it three times. Nelson Harding won the prize consecutively in 1927 and 1928 and this book chronologically states the awards, displays the artwork, and then describes the cartoon, Heinz-Dietrich Fischer. Political Caricatures on Global Issues, Pulitzer Prize Winning Editorial Cartoons
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Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
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The Pulitzer Prize for Public Service is one of the fourteen American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. The Public Service prize was one of the original Pulitzers, established in 1917 and it is the only prize in the program that awards a gold medal and is the most prestigious one for a newspaper to win. As with other Pulitzer Prizes, a committee of jurors narrows the field to three nominees, from which the Pulitzer Board generally picks a winner and finalists, finalists have been made public since 1980. The Pulitzer Board issues an official citation explaining the reason for the award, in its first 97 years to 2013, the Public Service Pulitzer was awarded 96 times. There were four years for which no award was given, in 1950,1951,1953,1955 and 1959, prizes were awarded to two newspapers. A reporter was first named in 1947, recently that has more common. 1919, Milwaukee Journal, for its strong and courageous campaign for Americanism in a constituency where foreign elements made such a policy hazardous from a point of view. 1920, no award given 1921, Boston Post, for its exposure of the operations of Charles Ponzi by a series of articles which finally led to his arrest. 1922, New York World, for exposing the operations of the Ku Klux Klan. 1923, Memphis Commercial Appeal, for its courageous attitude in the publication of cartoons,1928, Indianapolis Times, for its work in exposing political corruption to Indiana, prosecuting the guilty and bringing about a more wholesome state of affairs in civil government. 1930, no award given 1931, The Atlanta Constitution, for a successful municipal graft exposure,1932, Indianapolis News, for its successful campaign to eliminate waste in city management and to reduce the tax levy. McKee, and the exposing the lottery schemes of various fraternal organizations. 1934, Medford Mail Tribune, for its campaign against unscrupulous politicians in Jackson County,1935, The Sacramento Bee, for its campaign against political machine influence in the appointment of two Federal judges in Nevada. 1936, Cedar Rapids Gazette, for its crusade against corruption,1937, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its exposure of wholesale fraudulent registration in St. Louis. 1938, Bismarck Tribune, for its news reports and editorials entitled,1939, Miami Daily News, for its campaign for the recall of the Miami City Commission. 1940, Waterbury Republican & American, for its campaign exposing municipal graft,1941, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for its successful campaign against the city smoke nuisance. 1942, Los Angeles Times, for its campaign which resulted in the clarification and confirmation for all American newspapers of the right of free press as guaranteed under the Constitution. 1943, Omaha World-Herald, for its initiative and originality in planning a campaign for the collection of scrap metal for the war effort
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Doug Marlette
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His popular comic strip Kudzu, distributed by Universal Press Syndicate from 1981 to 2007, was adapted into a musical comedy. Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, Marlette was raised in Durham, North Carolina, Laurel, Mississippi, Marlette began his cartooning career while a student at Seminole Community College where he worked on the student newspaper. He then went on to Florida State University where he drew cartoons for The Florida Flambeau. He illustrated the 1970-71 FSU yearbook, Tally Ho, including a wraparound cover, Marlette was the cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, New York Newsday, The Tallahassee Democrat and The Tulsa World. In 2002, he drew criticism from Islamic groups for drawing a cartoon depicting Mohammed driving a Ryder van with missiles pointed out the back and he wrote and drew the internationally syndicated comic strip Kudzu, which launched June 15,1981. Marlette collaborated with Bland Simpson and Jack Herrick of the Red Clay Ramblers on a comedy adaptation of the strip, Kudzu. His work appeared in Time and Newsweek, along with such as The New York Times. In 1981, Marlette became the first cartoonist ever awarded a Nieman Fellowship, in 1997, he won his second Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Kudzu and his cartoons are collected in 19 volumes, including Faux Bubba, Bill and Hillary Go to Washington, Gone with the Kudzu. What Would Marlette Drive. and A Town So Backwards Even the Episcopalians Handle Snakes and his 1991 book, In Your Face, A Cartoonist at Work, was his personal account of the cartooning process. In 2001, his first novel, The Bridge, was published by HarperCollins, the Bridge won the 2002 SIBA Book Award sponsored by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. In 2006, his novel, Magic Time, was published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux and received critical praise. In 2006, he was appointed a Gaylord Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the College of Journalism, Marlette and his wife, TV producer Melinda Hartley Marlette, split their time between residences in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Hillsborough, North Carolina. Their son, Jackson, studied art in France, Marlette had a brother, Chris, and a sister, Marianne. His nephew, Andy Marlette, works as an editorial cartoonist for the Pensacola News Journal in Florida, Marlette was a close friend of author Pat Conroy, speaking to him daily. Marlette died in Marshall County, Mississippi, a passenger in a Toyota pickup truck that hydroplaned and struck a tree in heavy rain, Marlette died less than a week after he delivered the eulogy for his father, Elmer Monroe Marlette, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was buried at Walnut Grove United Methodist Church near Hillsborough on July 14,2007, Conroy and Joe Klein eulogized him at the funeral, before an overflow crowd. There were ten eulogists in all, and Conroy called Marlette his best friend and said, The first person to cry, Doug Marlette Papers Toonopedia, Kudzu Requiem for a Cartoonist Doug Marlette Memorial site Appearances on C-SPAN
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Atlanta Constitution
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the only major daily newspaper in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is the publication of Cox Enterprises. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the result of the merger between The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution, the staff was combined in 1982. Separate publication of the morning Constitution and afternoon Journal ended in 2001, the AJC has its headquarters in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody, Georgia. It is also co-owned with television flagship WSB-TV and six radio stations, subsequent to the staff consolidation of 1982, the afternoon Journal maintained a conservative editorial stance, while the editorials and op-eds in the morning Constitution were center-left. When the editions combined in 2001, the editorial page staffs also merged, the editorials and op-eds have attempted to strike a more balanced tone. Most of the editorial stances have been closer to those of the old Constitution center-left viewpoint. The Atlanta Journal was established in 1883, founder E. F. Hoge sold the paper to Atlanta lawyer Hoke Smith in 1887. After the Journal supported Presidential candidate Grover Cleveland in the 1892 election, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Margaret Mitchell worked for the Journal from 1922 to 1926. In 1922, the Journal founded the Souths first radio station, the radio station and the newspaper were sold in 1939 to James Middleton Cox, founder of what would become Cox Enterprises. The Journal carried the motto Covers Dixie like the Dew, the Constitution, as it was originally known, was first published on June 16,1868. Its name changed to The Atlanta Constitution in October 1869 and it was such a force that by 1871 it had killed off the Daily Intelligencer, the only Atlanta paper to survive the American Civil War. In August 1875 its name changed to The Atlanta Daily Constitution for two weeks, then to The Constitution again for about a year, in 1876 Captain Evan Howell purchased a controlling interest from E. Y. Clarke Sr. and became its editor-in-chief. That same year, Joel Chandler Harris began writing for the paper and he soon invented the character of Uncle Remus, a black storyteller, as a way of recounting stories from African-American culture. In October 1876 the newspaper became The Daily Constitution, before settling on the name The Atlanta Constitution in September 1881, during the 1880s, editor Henry W. Grady was a spokesman for the New South, and encouraged industrial development. The Constitution started the radio station, WGM AM710, having received its Federal Radio Commission broadcast license in March 1922. It is now succeeded by WGST AM640, though its original facility is now WGKA AM920, the station folded after just over a year, and was donated to the Georgia School of Technology. Ralph McGill, editor for the Constitution in the 1940s, was one of the few southern newspaper editors to support the American Civil Rights Movement, in 1946, reporter David Snell wrote that Japan had developed its own atomic bomb prior to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Tammy Faye Messner
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Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was married from 1961 to 1992 to televangelist, and later convicted felon and she co-hosted with him on The PTL Club. She was a participant in the 2004 season of the reality show The Surreal Life, the eldest of eight children, Tammy Faye was born Tamara Faye LaValley in International Falls, Minnesota, to Pentecostal preachers Rachel Minnie and Carl Oliver LaValley. Her parents were married in 1941, shortly after she was born, a painful divorce soured her mother against other ministers, alienating her from the church. In 1960, she met Jim Bakker when they were students at North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, Tammy Faye worked in a boutique for a time while Jim found work in a restaurant inside a department store in Minneapolis. They were married on April 1,1961, the following year, they moved to South Carolina, where they began their ministry. Their marriage produced two children, Tammy Sue Bakker Chapman and Jamie Charles Bakker, while in Portsmouth, they were hosts of the popular childrens show Jim and Tammy. They then created a ministry for children on Pat Robertsons Christian Broadcasting Network from 1964 to 1973. Jim and Tammy founded the The PTL Club in the mid-1970s, during the PTL shows, she provided a sentimental touch to stories and loved to sing. The Bakkers home, owned by the ministry, was actually a home built in the early 1970s. Jim Bakker stated that the dog house was heated with an old heater to keep the dogs warm in the winter. The home was sold by the ministry and burned to the ground not long thereafter. Jim Bakker wrote in his book I Was Wrong that he watched the home burn on live television while incarcerated, the Charlotte Observer ran exposés of PTLs finances and management practices. PTL went bankrupt after being taken over by controversial Lynchburg, Virginia-based Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell, Tammy stood by Bakker through the scandal, including several instances when she cried on camera. In 1989 Bakker was sentenced to 45 years in prison on 24 fraud, on October 3,1993, she married Roe Messner in Rancho Mirage, California, after Messner divorced his own wife. They moved to the Charlotte suburb of Matthews, North Carolina, Tammy and Roe were neighbors to Christian recording star and friend David L Cook. Messner was the one who produced the money for the $265,000 payment to Hahn, in the Bakkers fraud trial, Messner testified for Bakkers defense saying that Falwell had sent Messner to the Bakker home in Palm Springs, California, to make an offer to keep quiet. However, Messner said that Bakker wrote on it, Im not making any demands on PTL, in the bankruptcy of PTL, Messner was listed as the single biggest creditor of PTL with an outstanding claim of $14 million
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2014 Pulitzer Prize
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The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2013 calendar year. The deadline for entries was January 25,2014, Prize winners and nominated finalists were announced on April 14,2014. The Washington Post and The Guardian US shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the two papers were honored for their coverage of the disclosures about surveillance done by the US National Security Agency. Edward Snowden, who leaked security documents to the two newspapers, said the award was vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government. Other journalism honored included the Boston Globes coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings, Chris Hamby for investigative reporting, the Goldfinch by Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The judges described the novel, which took Tartt 11 years to write, in addition to the award itself, Tartt received a $100,000 cash prize. She said she was surprised and very happy to receive the award, over all, the novel has drawn mixed reviews from literary critics. Other contenders for the prize included The Son by Philipp Meyer. Vijay Seshadri won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his collection 3 Sections, other literary winners included The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor, Toms River, A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin, and Megan Marshalls biography of Margaret Fuller. There were 20 prizes awarded in 21 categories – no award in the category Feature Writing
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List of newspapers in North Carolina
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The following is a list of newspapers in North Carolina, United States. Newspapers published in 18th-century Edenton, North Carolina The Edenton Gazette, W. Nov.19 – Dec 25, 1800+ The Edenton Intelligencer. W. Sept.3 – Nov 12,1800, W. Sep 8,1788 – Feb 20,1799. Newspapers published in 18th-century Fayetteville, North Carolina Fayetteville Gazette, W. Aug 24,1789 – Oct 12,1789. The North-Carolina Centinel and Fayetteville Gazette, W. May 30,1795 – Aug 29,1795. The North-Carolina Chronicle, or, Fayetteville Gazette, the North-Carolina Minerva, and Fayetteville Advertiser. W. Mar 24,1796 – April 1799, Newspapers published in 18th-century Halifax, North Carolina The North-Carolina Journal. W. July 18,1792 – Dec 29, 1800+ Newspapers published in 18th-century Hillsborough, W. Oct 6,1785 – Feb 16,1786. Newspapers published in 18th-century Newbern, North Carolina Martins North Carolina Gazette, W. January 1786–1789 The Newbern Gazette. W. May 27, 1768-Nov 30,1778, the North Carolina Gazette, or, Impartial Intelligencer, and Weekly General Advertiser. Newspapers published in 18th-century Raleigh, North Carolina The North-Carolina Minerva, W. November–Dec 30, 1800+ The North-Carolina Minerva, and Raleigh Advertiser. Newspapers published in 18th-century Salisbury, North Carolina The North-Carolina Mercury and Salisbury Advertiser, W. April 1798-Dec 25, 1800+ Newspapers published in 18th-century Wilmington, North Carolina The Cape-Fear Mercury. W. Oct 13, 1769-Sep 1,1775, the Wilmington Centinel, and General Advertiser. The Wilmington Chronicle, and North-Carolina Weekly Advertiser, W. July 3,1795 – Aug 4,1796. Historical Sketches of North Carolina, From 1584 to 1851, philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo and Co. pp. 112–116. Legislative Manual and Political Register of the State of North Carolina, S. N. D. North, United States Department of the Interior. Catalogue of Periodical Publications, North Carolina, History and Present Condition of the Newspaper and Periodical Press of the United States. Press of North Carolina in the 18th Century, james T. Haley, ed. Newspapers, North Carolina, Afro-American Encyclopaedia, Nashville, Haley & Florida, OCLC219597043 North Carolina
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The Beaufort Gazette
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The Beaufort Gazette is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company printed in Bluffton, South Carolina, in the United States. The paper is printed at and has its staff physically housed inside The Island Packet, McClatchy still officially lists the paper at a daily circulation of 13,890 and Sunday of 11,505, The McClatchy Company. The McClatchy Company - Newspapers, The Beaufort Gazette, but the Audit Bureau of Circulation tracked 10,646 daily and 10,038 Sunday circulation as of September 30,2009. Audit Bureau of Circulation. List of newspapers in South Carolina The Beaufort Gazette official site Official mobile website The Beaufort Gazette contact information
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Belleville News-Democrat
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For the Kentucky newspaper, please see News Democrat & Leader. The Belleville News-Democrat is a newspaper in Belleville, Illinois. Focusing on news that is local to the area of southwestern Illinois, as of 2009, it is published by The McClatchy Company, and is based in St. Clair County, Illinois. It publishes content in print as well as online at bnd. com, the Belleville News-Democrat was founded in 1858 as the Weekly Democrat. In the early 1860s, it merged with the Belleville News to become the Belleville News-Democrat and it was a family-owned newspaper until 1972, when it was purchased by Capital Cities Communications. When Disney acquired Capital Cities, it owned the News-Democrat until Knight Ridder acquired the newspaper in 1997. McClatchy acquired the paper in 2006 with its purchase of Knight Ridder, the Belleville News-Democrat has been featured on the television programs 60 Minutes, Dateline and Nightline, as an example of investigative reporting. In 2003, an article in Editor & Publisher called the News-Democrat one of Ten newspapers that do it right under the leadership of publisher, Gary Berkeley. It is also the newspaper in Illinois or Missouri to grow net paid circulation for ten years in a row. The newspaper employs approximately 280 people, plus about 75 at its weekly ancillary papers, the newsroom staff consists of 26 reporters,12 editors, seven copy editors, four photographers, three newsroom assistants and an editorial cartoonist. It publishes separate editions in Madison County and St. Clair County
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The Bellingham Herald
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The Bellingham Herald is a daily newspaper published in Bellingham, Washington, in the United States. It is currently owned by The McClatchy Company, the Bellingham Herald began publication on March 10,1890, as the tri-weekly Fairhaven Herald. The newspaper went through changes in its early years, including temporary suspension. In 1900 the newspaper purchased the first linotype on the West Coast, when neighboring communities of Sehome, Whatcom and Fairhaven consolidated into the city of Bellingham in 1903, the paper was first printed as The Bellingham Herald. Federated Publications bought The Herald in 1967, in 1971 Federated Publications merged with Gannett Corporation. The Herald switched to morning delivery in May 1997, knight Ridder acquired The Bellingham Herald in 2005. Knight Ridder was purchased by McClatchy in 2006, on September 23,2010, Mark Owings became the Publisher of the Herald, he had been Finance Director since 2004 and a Herald employee for 12 years before being named to his new position. The Herald Building in downtown Bellingham is on the corner of State, the building, built in 1926 as an eight-story office building, houses The Bellingham Heralds main offices on the first and second floors, tenant businesses occupy the upper floors. The lit sign atop the building served sailors as an aid for many years. Morse Hardware had a sign saying MORSE on top of it for decades -. The Bellingham Herald official website Official mobile website The McClatchy Companys subsidiary profile of The Bellingham Herald
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The Bradenton Herald
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The Bradenton Herald is a newspaper based in Bradenton, Florida, in the United States. Sept.15,1922, Volume 1, Number 1 was published as The Evening Herald and it was a merger of two weekly papers, the Manatee River Journal, which had published since the 1880s, and The Bradentown Herald Weekly. The newspaper was at No.414 Pine Street in downtown Bradenton, in the mid-1920s, Pine Street was renamed and the newspapers home was at 401 13th St. W. The Evening Herald was published Monday through Saturday until 1926, when the Saturday publication was replaced by a Sunday edition, in 1953 the Saturday edition resumed. 1925, Co-owners Raymond P. Sponenbarger and Robert W. Bentley sold the paper to the R. W, Chapman then became president of the Page Corp. and moved to Columbus with his family. His son, Alvah H. Chapman Jr. would follow in his fathers footsteps, the Page Corp. had become part of Knight Newspapers Inc. in 1973, Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications Inc. merged in 1974 and the Herald became a KR paper. 2006, The Bradenton Herald was sold as one of the newspapers included in the sale of Knight Ridder newspapers to The McClatchy Company, based in Sacramento, from its modest beginnings in 1922 as The Evening Herald, The Bradenton Herald has grown and changed along with its community. The Herald shed its evening past on Jan,1,1983, when it became a morning publication. The next year, it moved from its cramped, old building to an 87, 000-square-foot building. It published its last edition on 13th Street on July 7,1984, the Herald entered cyberspace in January 1996 when its website, www. Bradenton. com, was launched as Bradenton Herald Internet Plus. December 2012, The Bradenton Herald online edition went behind a paywall, currently subscribers can get unlimited access for 99 cents for a trial month and under $7 a month after that. The Lakewood Ranch Herald focused on coverage of the rapidly growing eastern region of Manatee County since 2006. List of newspapers in Florida Official website Todays The Bradenton Herald front page at the Newseum website The McClatchy Companys subsidiary profile of the Bradenton Herald
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