Unfortunately, the writing group that could bring different skills to this endeavor, seem otherwise, occupied. Which brings me to The Rocky Mount Telegram. I have spoken several times in jest to my writing group about staging a coup and taking the paper over because I think we are uniquely qualified to make some needed improvements. My Paper Chase is a poignant reminder of all that newspapers once were, and all they could be again. Evans became the editor for the Sunday Times and The Times of London,and among other things in a long illustrious career was a book publisher acquiring the memoirs of people like Colin Powell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. You and I could have a rousing discussion on what in the hell has happened to the newspaper business, but instead, I recommend you read My Paper Chase – The stories of Vanished Times by Harold Evans. It was a two-woman operation: Maggie wrote the copy, I sold the advertising. My only working experience for a newspaper was on a newly launched weekly in Oldham County, Kentucky called, The Country Gentleman. In those days, a southern local newspaper printed the names of those who were visiting in town, details of the brides wedding dress, and what the high school football team ate for breakfast on the morning of the game. Though I grew up reading the Chicago Tribune, my real education in the newspaper business began in my first life living in Cadiz, Kentucky reading The Cadiz Record. I got side-tracked by the head of the Sociology Department, who was also my freshman college advisor, a wonderful old gentleman, who reeled in many a student to his discipline, including me. Undeterred, I left for the University of Kentucky to major in journalism. Miss Stephens, the sponsor for the paper told me my grades weren’t quite good enough, and for my sake, all the extra work on the newspaper wasn’t a good idea. It didn’t help that my junior year in high school I was turned down for a staff position on the Evanstonian, the school paper. Francesco Nétti (Italian artist, 1832- 1894). If you aren't reading NNW, you are missing out. Not a member? Join today or submit a request to receive additional information. If you are a member and not receiving NNW, submit a request to be added to the email list.Woman reading newspaper in a gold room. NNW is packed with the latest updates on government and business issues affecting the truckstop and travel plaza industry. This article originally ran in NATSO News Weekly(NNW), NATSO's member only weekly electronic newsletter. No state resident wants to pay that kind of levy at the pump and fork over a toll for I-95." "As we’ve noted in this space several times, North Carolina already has the fifth-highest gasoline tax in the country. "Dozens of Eastern North Carolina businesses that depend on the road for commerce have balked at the prospect of tolls, and who can blame them?," the newspaper wrote. In an editorial "Constructive Ideas Offer Alternative to Tolls" the Telegram's editorial board said that after more than a year of protests over the prospects of tolling I-95, "the conversation has turned in a more positive direction." The Rocky Mount Telegram last week said that North Carolina should focus on alternative ideas for funding road construction instead of tolling Interstate 95.
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