Sentences with phrase «editor at a local newspaper»

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Born in 1913, in a small Ontario town where his father was editor of the local newspaper, Davies went on to university both in Canada and at Balliol College, Oxford.

Dr. Kno — to match your post for sheer stupidty I had to look at my local newspaper at a letttter to the editor which claimed that «It's impossible to waste water.»

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

At the time, The Washington Post, recently taken over by Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep), was a local newspaper that editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) hoped to turn into a paper of national importance.

A high school superstar — editor of the newspaper, on the student government, in theater — he learned he wasn't eligible for college financial aid and resigned himself to working at a local newspaper for $ 10 an hour.

Once upon a time, when I was the editor of a small - town daily, we did an article about how the editor of the student newspaper at one of the local high schools had set out to do an anonymous survey of students asking about their sexual habits.

This could be placing flyers (we will provide) at animal related businesses, information distributed to schools, website links, news coverage, letters to the editors of local newspapers (especially if you are a greyhound adopter), or any other ways you can think of to educate the public about the need to place these wonderful pets into adoptive homes.

To bring attention to their campaign, the groups often stage protests at pet stores, write letters to the editor in local newspapers, investigate where pet stores buy their animals and lobby local officials to consider bans.

Blogger Mister Thorne at Set in Style points us to to an article in the Georgetown (Kentucky) News - Graphic, Pleaseth Updateth Thy Language, in which the newspaper's intrepid copy editor lives to tell about multiple encounters with archaic legalese in the deed books of the local county courthouse.

Send a Letter to the Editor We always encourage our supporters to send a letter to your local newspaper expressing our thoughts, ideas, and convictions about any subject relating to the services we provide at Planned Parenthood health centers.