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Take the (A) Train -- Your Name Here on Metro

Joel Epstein | Posted 12.05.2009 | Los Angeles

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Joel Epstein

Why aren't we asking the business and philanthropic community to help do their part by offering to pick up the tab on Metro station construction?

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Debunking The Heroin Craze

nypress.com | Matt Harvey | Posted 10.22.2009 | New York

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HE WEARS A black hoodie to protect himself from the cold rain. The baby-faced guy is Dominican, probably in his early twenties. He rushes by me at the...

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Metro Sells Off US Newspaper Business To Former CEO

AP | MALIN RISING | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Metro International SA, Newspapers, Pelle Tornberg, Metro Newspapers, Seabay Media, Metro, Media News

STOCKHOLM — Swedish newspaper group Metro International S.A. said Monday it has agreed to sell its loss-making U.S. papers, with a combined circ...

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I've Decided to Move to Print... for a Day

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Boston, Geoff Canada, Metro Newspapers, Print, New Media, Harlem Children's Zone, Philadelphia, Metro, New York, Old Media, Media News
Arianna Huffington

When Metro US asked me to be guest editor of their daily newspapers in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, it immediately reawakened my early love affair with print, going back to my school years in Athens when my father was a newspaper editor and paper after paper that he ran kept going out of business -- but that's another story. It was great fun working with the Metro staff picking which stories to feature. Here are links to some of the stories we selected, and my take on them. READ MORE What If Jon Stewart, Instead of John King, Interviewed Dick Cheney Someone needs to kidnap King and take him to a journalism deprogramming center -- preferably one run by Jon Stewart and his team. READ MORE

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Calling All Readers! What's Your Favorite Charity?

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living

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Verena von Pfetten

As you all know, Arianna is passionate about the need for service, now more than ever. That's why we would love your suggestions on those charities about which you feel most passionate.

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I'm Glad Obama is President, But That Inauguration Was Terribly Planned

Nathan Robinson | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Nathan Robinson

The metro on Tuesday were massively delayed, and people on our train became sick due to the sudden lurches of the delayed trains.

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"Crush-Level" Inaugural Crowds Forecasted By Congressional Committee

Political Hotsheet | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

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Late yesterday, the Congressional Inaugural Committee issued an "Inaugural Advisory" for those planning to attend Barack Obama's swearing in ceremony ...

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