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About Braun Family Funeral Home. Braun Colonial Funeral Home and Ambulance Service was founded in Cahokia in 1971 by Frank Braun, who owned and operated the business. The Braun Family Funeral Home ...
Monroe is served by two African-American-owned weekly newspapers: the Monroe Free Press and the Monroe Dispatch. The Free Press was founded in 1969 by Roosevelt Wright, Jr., and The Dispatch was founded in 1975 by Irma and Frank Detiege. The Ouachita Citizen is a locally owned and operated weekly newspaper that was founded in 1924.
Monroe, LA 71201: Website: monroefreepress.com: The Monroe Free Press is a weekly African American newspaper in Monroe, Louisiana. History
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Robert E. Powell (1923–1997), mayor of Monroe 1979–1996; Melvin Rambin (1941–2001), mayor of Monroe 2000–2001, only Republican in the position since Reconstruction; banker in Baton Rouge and Monroe; interred in Baton Rouge; Frank Spooner, oil and natural gas producer and Republican politician, moved to Monroe in 1967 [5]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suddenly stopped speaking during a weekly news conference Wednesday, appearing to freeze, and then went silent.
In 1916, the Monroe natural gas field was discovered. The field stretched more than 500 square miles (1,000 km 2) and was estimated to have 6,500,000,000,000 cubic feet (180 km 3) of natural gas in it. As a result, for a time the city of Monroe was known as the natural gas capital of the world. The new industry generated many jobs.
Melvin Rambin, mayor of Monroe, 2000–2001; former banker in Baton Rouge, interred at Roselawn Memorial Park in Baton Rouge, R [80] Buddy Roemer, former governor and Baton Rouge businessman (b. 1943), I [81] Frank P. Simoneaux, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for East Baton Rouge Parish, 1972–1982; lawyer in Baton Rouge, D [82]