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During his tenure, The Times-Picayune evolved from being regarded as one of the nation's worst big-city newspapers to winning acclaim as one of its best. In a 1997 interview with the American Journalism Review, Amoss said, "There is a false hypothesis that the Times-Picayune was floundering until Jim Amoss took over. When I took over from ...
Arkansas County Gazette: DeWitt: 1884 1886 [6] Arkansas Democrat: DeWitt 1879 1882 [7] Arkansas Farmer: Little Rock 1844 1845 [5] Arkansas Forum: Siloam Springs 1921 c. 1921 [8] Arkansas Gazette: Arkansas Post, Little Rock 1819 [9] 1991 [10] Arkansas Herald: Siloam Springs 1882 1889 [11] Arkansas Intelligencer: Van Buren 1842 1845 [12] Arkansas ...
The current publication is the result of the 2019 acquisition of The Times-Picayune (which was the result of the 1914 union of The Picayune with the Times-Democrat) by the New Orleans edition of The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Times-Picayune was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2006 for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
It was the site of a family cemetery that was eroding into the Mississippi River as of 1883. [1] Levees were being built and repaired by convict labor at Pecan Grove, Goodrich's Landing, and nearby Illawara in 1891. [ 14 ]
River Parishes. Ascension Parish in the north is not always considered a River Parish. Main building at "Laura" Creole plantation, in Vacherie, St. James, 2002 photograph. The River Parishes are the parishes in Louisiana between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that span both banks of the Mississippi River, and are part of the larger Acadiana region ...
The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate From a page move : This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
George A. Hero (28 July 1854 – 1932) was a New Orleans entrepreneur who organized the drainage of vast tracts of swampland on the West Bank of the Mississippi River at New Orleans. He was known locally as the "Drainage King".