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Vol. 13 | No. 38 | Thursday, September 20, 2018
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Garrick Feldman knows story of survival, not just in publishing This article by Kyle Massey of Arkansas Business is reprinted with permission.
Garrick Feldman was discussing plans to expand his Jacksonville newspaper, The Leader, to fill the void left by the closing of The Times of North Little Rock. In the conversation he told me a bit of his powerful family saga, too, but asked if I could keep the personal part to just a couple of sentences. Here goes. His mother, Ilona, survived Auschwitz as a teenage slave laborer for the Nazis after they murdered her mother; his father, Ferenc, survived the Mauthausen camp, freed by black U.S. soldiers who wept at what they saw. Three of Garrick Feldman’s grandparents died in Holocaust camps, and he watched his baby brother being carried by his father as little Garrick held his mom’s hand on a nightlong walk across the HungarianAustrian border ahead of the advancing Soviet army in 1956.
Having barely survived Nazi and communist annihilation, the little family made its way to America, where Ferenc and Ilona lived long lives and Feldman’s brother, Steve, became a scholar at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
last year’s deadly neo-Nazi and white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nazi and Confederate flags flew amid chants of “Blood and Soil,” a slogan of Hitlerism, and “Jews will not replace us.” Continued on Page 2
OK, that was three sentences. But perhaps Feldman will forgive me, and forgive all the semicolons. Here’s the business story: As an immigrant and longtime newspaperman, Feldman is deeply troubled by the antiimmigrant, anti-press tone of the Trump administration, not to mention the president’s good-people-on-bothGarrick Feldman, publisher of The Leader, says his newspaper will focus on sides response to North Little Rock more often. Photo courtesy of Arkansas Business.
FOIA Coalition set to engage for 2019 Legislative Session The 92nd General Assembly convenes strongest open records and open in just over three months, meetings laws. Ashley Wimberley, and it’s likely that legislators executive director of the Arkansas The Ark ans as will propose a number of bills Press Association and ex-officio of m Freedo to change, or even weaken, chairperson of the FOIA Coalition, Information Handbook the Arkansas Freedom of expects a busy legislative session Information Act (FOIA). as it relates to FOIA.
members who have a strong interest and dedication to the law to be a part of the coalition.”
During past legislative sessions, the Arkansas FOIA Coalition has been active in its efforts to evaluate pending legislation and protect one of the nation’s
Those who are interested in joining the coalition should contact Ashley Wimberley at (501) 374-1500 or ashley@ arkansaspress.org.
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Co-Sponsors Arkansas Governor’s Office Office Arkansas Attorney General’s Arkansas Press Association The Society of Professional Journalists Arkansas Broadcasters Association Associated Press Managing Editors Association Associated Press Broadcasters
“The FOIA Coalition must be vigilant as we safeguard this 51-year-old law,” Wimberley said. “We expect the Coalition to be active during the session. We welcome APA
The FOIA Coalition typically meets during the session to hear from bill sponsors and take positions on bills. The meetings are held in Little Rock at APA headquarters.