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OCTOBER 2006 ARTICLES
It’s been a quick year, seems like, and the year-end brings to mind several things we have to start working on for 2007. So here are some areas where you can help -- by nominating someone for outstanding community service, by showing off the work of your photographers in 2006 and by submitting a front cover photo for the 2007 KPA Yearbook and Directory.
Less than halfway through the annual Kentucky High School Journalism Association membership drive, we are generating some impressive numbers. These are numbers even newsroom types who are sometimes allergic to math can appreciate.
The NAA Political Advertising Forum in Washington, D.C. provided a wealth of information to sales reps. During the day long conference held Sept. 15 various speakers talked about a common sense approach to selling newspaper ads to politicians. Tim Curran, editor of Roll Call magazine in Washington, D.C. talked about the political climate in Washington and at his newspaper. He urged those in attendance to go after the campaigns because of the crucial House seats at stake this fall.
Tom Payne, the first African-American recruited to play basketball for Adolph Rupp's UK Wildcats, is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence in Kentucky on a rape conviction. In prison, he found religion and began authoring Christian-themed children's books. One of those books, The Angel Mimi and the Giant (A Lesson in Love), tells the story of a mean giant who encounters an angel who shows him how to be nice to others. In the opinion of the Attorney General .... The Kentucky Attorney General’s office has rejected an appeal that the Department for Natural Resources violated the Open Records Act in denying a request from Associated Press correspondent Samira Jafari. Passings John Ed Pearce, whose many awards included part of a 1967 Pulitzer Prize for The Courier-Journal's campaign for stronger control of strip mining in Kentucky, died Sept. 25 of complications from cancer. It was his 87th birthday. People and Papers
Constitutional questions Ruling could limit media access to some
records Private e-mail messages written by government employees and sent from publicly owned computers are not subject to Arizona's public disclosure laws, the state Court of Appeals in Tucson said in a decision that Phoenix Newspapers Inc. plans to appeal to the state's highest court. Jail ordered in fake obit case A Stout, Iowa man who submitted a fake obituary for his girlfriend's son to get out of work has been sentenced to jail. District Associate Judge James Coil sentenced James Ralph Snyder, 36, to a year in jail suspended to seven days behind bars after he pleaded to misdemeanor tampering with records. WKU newspaper, yearbook up for Pacemaker Awards Western Kentucky University’s student newspaper has joined the WKU yearbook as a finalist for national Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker awards. The College Heights Herald, which competes in the four-year non-daily newspaper category, has won the national Pacemaker 11 times. Editors for the 2005-06 year were Shawntaye Hopkins and Michael Casagrande, both of Louisville.
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