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They know the fine print! The Washington Post Co (NYSE: WPO) founded by Stilson Hutchins in 1877, publishes newspapers, principally the Washington Post, The Herald and about 40 other Maryland community newspapers. It has interests in TV broadcasting, cable, magazines, education and career development services. This $3.55 billion company is based in Washington, DC and employs about 16,400 people. It owns six TV stations, a regional cable system, and an educational services firm, Kaplan. In 2005 the company bought Slate, the online magazine, from Microsoft Corp.
Number of Employees 20,000
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Washington, District of Columbia 20071-0001
(202) 334-6000
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NAICS Code All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction: 611699
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George McGovern wrote an essay for the Washington Post calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney
- 2008-01-28
George McGovern wrote an essay for the Washington Post calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Most of it was a predictable anti-war aria: Saddam's Iraq was "a stable country with little or no capacity to threaten others"; Bush and Cheney have "increased the terrorist threat"...
Americans yearn for change of direction: poll
- 2007-11-05
WASHINGTON AFP — Sixty percent of all Americans strongly want the country to change direction after nearly seven years of President George W. Bush's rule, according to a new opinion poll released late Sunday. The survey by The Washington Post and ABC News indicated that only 24 percent of...
US court put limits on spying program: report
- 2007-08-03
WASHINGTON AFP — A US federal judge earlier this year secretly ruled that a key element of an electronic spying program was illegal, providing the impetus for a White House push for new legislation to enable government eavesdropping, a US newspaper reported on Friday. The ruling in January held...
Green Star Products JV Partner NRG Resources Signs $140-Million Contract at APEC Summit
- 2006-11-20
SAN DIEGO -- Green Star Products, Inc. (OTC:GSPI) announced today that the New York Times and the Washington Post have both published an article covering the APEC Summit stating, "Vietnam's Truong Thinh Co. said it had sealed a US$140-million contract with California-based NRG Resources Inc." NRG Resources is the...
ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, THE
- 2006-10-01
PREFACE In March 2006, we published an essay entitled "The Israel Lobby" in The London Review of Books (Vol. 28, No. 6, March 23, 2006). At the suggestion of several well-respected scholars who had read earlier drafts, we also posted a slightly longer and documented version of the article on...
Tilting at windmills
- 2006-10-01
Lessons from TR Karl Rove recently wrote an essay for Time magazine on the lessons to be learned from the life of Teddy Roosevelt. One lesson was not mentioned by Rove. Roosevelt not only served in the Spanish-American War, leading the famous charge up San Juan Hill, but offered...
Former US official confirms he was source in CIA leak case
- 2006-09-08
WASHINGTON AFP — Former deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed in newspaper interviews that he unwittingly outed a secret CIA agent three years ago and expressed remorse for doing so. "It was a terrible error on my part," Armitage, 61, told The New York Times. "There wasn't a day...
Moscow on the Potomac
- 2006-07-01
From The Washington Post: "The Moscow Times reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin, looking for a successor when his term ends in 2008 and apprised by reporters that President Bush had recommended Jeb for '08, cracked, 'Nepotism--what else can you expect from them?'"
Democratic National Committee: The Bush Deficit Shell Game, 2006 Edition
- 2006-01-13
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Democratic National Committee released the following today, regarding the budget deficit:Since President Bush came into office in 2001, his reckless policies have created the largest deficits in American history. His failure to balance the budget combined with his stubborn decision to extend tax...
DNC Must Read: 'Power We Didn't Grant,' by Tom Daschle
- 2005-12-23
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- In an op-ed in today's Washington Post, former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle dismisses the Bush Administration's claim that Congress granted President Bush authority to spy on American citizens in the 2001 Congressional legislation authorizing the use of force against al Qaeda. The following...
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