For those who missed this bit of news, the Times-Picayune will be cutting its printed issues down to three days per week beginning in this autumn. Not only are they chopping down the New Orleans area newspaper, but they are doing the same to newspapers in Alabama:  The Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and the Mobile Press-Register. http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/05/nolamediagroup.html#incart_river http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-times-picayune-20120524,0,494521.story Alexa Genealogy research since 1974 Ancestral hauntings - I ain't afraid-a no ghosts...

Times-Picayune announcement prompts review of 'official journal' law State law will have to be changed before the end of this legislative session to allow a non-daily newspaper in the New Orleans area to be the official journal for governmental advertising. lawmakers said Thursday. ...if the law is not changed, legal challenges can be filed if advertising continues in a non-daily newspaper. http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/times-picayune_announcement_pr.html#incart_river Gambit's covering this news, too: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/ http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2012/05/24/after-the-news-today-at-the-times-picayune Alexa Genealogy research since 1974 Ancestral hauntings - I ain't afraid-a no ghosts...