[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 113 (Friday, July 24, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  HONORING THE EMPLOYEES OF THE ANN ARBOR NEWS FOR THEIR 174 YEARS OF 
                            FINE JOURNALISM

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                          HON. JOHN D. DINGELL

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 23, 2009

  Mr. DINGELL. Madam Speaker, I rise today to offer a tribute in honor 
of The Ann Arbor News, which has shut its doors after 174 years of 
service.
  Since 1835, the Ann Arbor News and its employees served Washtenaw 
County creating a forum for educated discussion, thoughtful articles, 
and current events. I want to thank the employees and journalists of 
The Ann Arbor News for their fine work, and I wish them the very best 
in their future endeavors.
  The Ann Arbor News lived to see its town of only 1,000 expand to a 
city of 110,000 and has watched the University of Michigan become one 
of the finest universities in the world. It predates the Civil War and 
covered that historic struggle during the 1860s. In the 1950s it 
covered the announcement of the groundbreaking polio vaccine in Ann 
Arbor. The News also spread word of two landmark Presidential programs, 
Kennedy's Peace Corps and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, also unveiled 
in Ann Arbor. Later on, the News was recognized as one of the best 
small newspapers in the country out of a field of about 1,350 papers 
with daily circulations of 50,000 or less (about 85 percent of all 
daily papers in America).
  I am pleased that some of the News' fine journalists will be joining 
a new venture, AnnArbor.com, which will serve many similar functions as 
the News, and will guide the Ann Arbor community into the age of 
digital web information. I would like to offer my tribute to the 
thousands of people who worked at The Ann Arbor News and established 
its fine journalistic tradition from 1835 until its close.

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