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• CONCEALED WEAPONS, CONCEALED RECORDS?

  - 2008-09-01

  A growing number of state governments are tightening the reins on databases involving concealed weapon permits, making it nearly impossible for reporters to uncover information potentially vital to the public's interest. Journalists should especially take notice of this issue because experts say the media is partially to blame for the...

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• The Roanoke Times Renews Transportation Contract With Ryder

  - 2008-06-05

  Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), a global leader in supply chain, warehousing and transportation management solutions, today announced that The Roanoke (Va.) Times, a Landmark Communications newspaper with a daily circulation of more than 100,000, has renewed a five-year Dedicated Contract Carriage DCC transportation contract with Ryder. Under the...

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• New leadership elected at board meeting

  - 2007-12-22

  Dan Radmacher, editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times in Virginia, was elected NCFW secretary at the organization's September 29 business meeting in Kansas City. That puts him on the first step of the NCEW leadership ladder. Radmacher promised to harness the power of individual members to lead the...

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• Here's $2,000 to get started on your regional conference: foundation is looking for five takers

  - 2007-12-22

  Though I am writing this in early October, I have my eye on the end of December, people's last chance to make charitable donations in 2007. Nagging would not be appropriate this year because so many of our members have become Foundation donors. But for those of you with some...

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• Michael G. Riley Named Editor of Congressional Quarterly

  - 2007-01-30

  To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: Janet Donovan, +1-202-904-1035, ceiinfo@erols.com, for Congressional Quarterly Inc. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressional Quarterly Inc., the nation's premier provider of news, analysis and information on Congress, politics and public policy, has named Michael G. Riley as senior vice president and editor of CQ Publications. Riley will...

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• MWV board mill still running.(United Steelworkers of America negotiating with MeadWestvaco Corp.)(Brief article)

  - 2007-01-20

  Last week members of United Steelworkers Local 8-675 reported to work as usual at the MeadWestvaco MWV boxboard mill in Covington, Va., even though 66 percent of union members rejected the company's "last, best, and final" offer, report Last week members of United Steelworkers...

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• Tommy Denton stepped down as editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times in Virginia on June 30

  - 2006-09-22

  Tommy Denton stepped down as editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times in Virginia on June 30. Denton, who joined the paper in 1998, opted to take the summer off before returning to the paper parttime in October to write weekly columns for the opinion pages. Editoral writer and...

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• Mayor calls lawsuit 'cheap shot'.(FILED BY MEADWESTVACO)(MeadWestvaco sues Buena Vista, VA)(Brief article)

  - 2006-08-19

  Todd Jones, the mayor of Buena Vista, Va., calls MeadWestvaco's $7 million lawsuit "a cheap shot" and "bush league," reports The Roanoke Times. The suit alleges that the city agreed to give the company 44 acres of industrial property. It spent money planning the facility, which...

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• Michael Riley.(editor of The Roanoke Times)(Brief article)

  - 2006-06-22

  Michael Riley's newspaper, The Roanoke Times, has won a number of awards this year. Riley, the paper's editor, writes: "It has been a good year for The Roanoke Times. For the second time in four years, we've been ranked number one in...

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• SSCC to lay Off 27 in Va.

  - 2005-12-10

  Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. SSCC, Chicago, will lay off about 27 of the Roanoke, Va., corrugator/box plant's 107 hourly workers in coming months due to corporate restructuring, The Roanoke Times reports. On Dec. 1, three salaried employees were abruptly terminated. ...

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