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You’ll never hear me say…

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Dead at deadline: Where’s my fix?

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Legislature makes news even during recess

by Jim Pulmarlo Community News Success Strategies

A message to printing plants and mailrooms
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Can a newspaper decline to run same-sex wedding announcements?
Newspapers have the discretion to refuse to publish a same-sex wedding or engagement announcement- or any other advertising they don’t wish to publish.
Marked copy elimination tabled
Marked copy elimination tabled because of future cost implications for periodicals
Use the right advertising tool

You may have heard the story about the man who asked the clerk at the hardware store for a wrench. “What kind of wrench?” the clerk asked. “Just show me what you’ve got,” the man replied. Not quite knowing what to do, the clerk pulled a socket wrench from the shelf. “I think I’ll try it,” the man said.

Hub SCF price eligibility expands July 1

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Newspapers that had been receiving the DSCF discount for dropping direct containers of periodicals or standard mail at a former sectional

Texas Supreme Court Hands Down its First Rulings on the State's Anti-SLAPP Statute
Attorney Laura Lee Prather, Haynes and Boone, discusses recent rulings on anti-SLAPP legislation
In-county and carrier-route Standard increases eased
May 31 is effective date, USPS says, but delay is still possible
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