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Recent Examples of mailersThe state party said the mailers were specific to the runoff election, and that an additional mailer has been sent to voters with a primary ballot application.—Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2026
Kessler was a longtime member of Thousand Oaks’ Temple Etz Chaim and an advocate for liberal causes who often penned his opinions in letters to the Thousand Oaks Acorn.
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Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
My letters to the attorney general, my House and Senate representatives ignored.
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Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
The instructions even say that while packages are X-rayed, greeting cards and postcards are not, which is why the journalist chose to embed the tracker in a postcard.
The data taken in the April 29 incident included personal information of users at affected organizations, including names, email addresses, student ID numbers and messages among Canvas users, the company said.
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Jon Haworth,
ABC News,
8 May 2026
Data accessed included user names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages exchanged on the platform.
Prosecutors said Graves' body was partially wrapped in black garbage bags secured with duct tape, then rolled up in a rug alongside blankets, bags, pieces of mails, various items of clothing and trash.
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Sara Tenenbaum,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
Tyler has been embedded in the treasurer’s office, which calculates and mails out property tax bills, for years.
Their dispute played out in a series of public relations missives, starting last May, when Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua suggested to Sports Illustrated that the rivalry was in jeopardy because USC didn’t want to continue it.
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Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
The pamphlet published five pro-Franco missives; sixteen authors declared neutrality.
After her diagnosis with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in September 2023, the nurse shared her journey online — posting updates about her chemotherapy treatments, fundraisers for cancer research and general dispatches from her life as a mom of two.
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Luke Chinman,
PEOPLE,
27 Apr. 2026
Media outlets deploy squads of writers, videographers and social editors to produce a steady stream of clips and dispatches, the kind of coverage that now determines their relevance as much as their reporting.
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Andrea Domanick,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2026