Dolan Media acquires print, electronic Arizona news service.Dolan Media (Minneapolis, MN), a publishers of daily and weekly legal and business publications and electronic services in 21 U.S. markets, has acquired Arizona News Service (ANS (ANS Communications, Inc, Purchase, NY) An ISP, Internet backbone and provider of private data network services, founded in 1990 as Advanced Network & Services, Inc., by IBM, MCI and Merit (consortium of Michigan universities). ; Phoenix, AZ), a multimedia electronic and print publisher specializing in coverage of Arizona state government information, from owners Ned and Diana Creighton. No terms of the deal were given. Arizona News Service was established in 1906 by Ned Creighton's grandfather to publish a legislative newsletter. The acquired company currently produces: Legislation Online Arizona, an electronic legislative news service that follows daily floor action, new bills, and committee agendas and actions; "Arizona Capitol Times," a weekly newspaper; the daily "Arizona Legislative Report," published during legislative sessions; "Yellow Sheet Report," a newsletter published three times a week during interim periods between legislative sessions to cover Attorney General rulings, state agency hearings on rules and regulations and political news; "The Green Book," an annual guide to the Arizona Legislature The Arizona Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is a bicameral legislature that consists of a lower house, the House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Senate. There are 60 Representatives and 30 Senators. ; and, various magazine-format publications on the workings of state government. ANS has 24 employees, all of whom will be retained. Dolan Media president James Dolan For the Irish politician, see . James L. Dolan (born 1956) is Chairman of the Board of Cablevision Systems Incorporated -- parent company of the Madison Square Garden corporation, in New York City. said "if (Arizona) state government has a bible, this is it. We are proud to be associated with it and we pledge to continue its tradition of speed, accuracy, fairness and insight." He said that Dolan Media will invest additional resources to continue ANS's growth. In January of this year, Dolan acquired Counsel Press (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), the nation's largest provider of appellate Relating to appeals; reviews by superior courts of decisions of inferior courts or administrative agencies and other proceedings. services to the legal profession. Other Dolan properties include Finance & Commerce, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN), Lawyers Weekly, Inc. (Boston, MA), New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded Publishing Group (New Orleans, LA), Legal Communications Corp. (St. Louis, MO) and The Daily Record Co. (Baltimore, MD), among others. |
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