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Special interest newspapers in Washington, D.C. Title Year est., freq. Interest References Catholic Standard: 1951, weekly Catholics OCLC 11760218 [8] County News: 1973 County governments, National Association of Counties OCLC 1643384, LCCN sn82017007 [9] DC Black: African-American [10] [11] DC Spotlight Newspaper [11] The Georgetowner: 1954 ...
Lawrence Washington (1718 – July 26, 1752) was an American soldier, planter, politician, and prominent landowner in colonial Virginia.As a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, and a member of the colonial legislature representing Fairfax County, Virginia, he founded the town of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River in 1749.
In 1916, Lawrence became the Washington, D.C. correspondent of New York Evening Post, which was then the since discontinued evening edition of the New York Post.. After Woodrow Wilson's re-election as U.S. president, Wilson fired his Irish-American White House secretary (chief of staff) Joseph Patrick Tumulty in 1916 to placate anti-Catholic sentiment, which was being espoused from his wife ...
Georgetown, originally part of the state of Maryland, was the first populated place in Washington, D.C. The first newspapers appeared in Georgetown, which became an independently municipal government within the District of Columbia, along with the City of Washington, the City of Alexandria (retroceeded to Virginia in 1846), [4] and the newly created County of Washington and County of ...
In that time, he established himself as an expert on Washington — “a city of inspiration and spit AP's Lawrence Knutson, who covered Washington's transcendent events for nearly 4 decades, has died
Initiative 1000 (I-1000) of 2008 established the U.S. state of Washington's Death with Dignity Act (RCW 70.245 [2]), which legalizes medical aid in dying with certain restrictions. Passage of this initiative made Washington the second U.S. state to permit some terminally ill patients to determine the time
The Washington Daily News was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company and published by the Washington Daily News Publishing Company. [2] The newspaper was born on November 8, 1921, and competed with four established local daily newspapers, the Washington Post, the Washington Times (not to be confused with the current Washington Times), the Washington Herald, and the Washington Star (The Evening Star).
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