About Us: "...an idea as old as the Republic."  "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." --Thomas Jefferson Dear Reader, Continental Features/Continental News Service, Inc. is a national and international news-gathering organization and newspaper-feature agency which publishes the periodic 28-page, general-interest newsmagazine Continental Newstime(ISSN 1096-1712), that is heavy on news, information, and feature content and purposely light on advertisements and that is now in its 23RD year. Celebrating our 28TH anniversary on August 19,2009, CF/CNS specializes in covering the unreported and under-reported world and national(U.S.) news/information, through Continental Newstime newsmagazine...Continental Newstime is not available on the Internet. In publishing Continental Newstime, we are influenced by market research which recommended that we examine and review government and professional studies and reports, which emphasized that readers expect investigative reports and muck-raking journalism, which revealed that readers appreciate the turn of phrase that helps in comprehension of the news, and which advised a focus on Sports.   But, then, CF/CNS, Inc.'s thorough discussion of public-policy matters is "an idea as old as the Republic."  Continental Newstime newsmagazine, which doubles as our newspaper-feature catalog for U.S. and foreign newspaper editors and publishers, contains our investigative reports and a wide variety of newspaper features.  The single-copy price is $4.50, also applicable to back issues.  To subscribe for one year, please prepare check or money order for $54--Canadian and foreign subscriptions are $86.40 annually. [Subscriptions also include the monthly newsletter Inkslinger's Review.] For the last 28 years, we have published a newsletter for hospital patients--the above-mentioned Inkslinger's Review and consisting of light, informative and entertaining reading. We operated a Washington,D.C.-area news bureau in 1989. Currently, in this age of the Internet, we manage conducting operations in San Diego, California and also operate a news bureau in the Pacific Northwest. Thanks for visiting our Website! Sincerely, Gary P. Salamone, President/Editor-in-Chief CF/CNS can be reached by contacting: Continental Features/Continental News Service, Inc. 501 W. Broadway Plaza A, PMB# 265 San Diego, CA 92101 (858) 492-8696 E-mail: continentalnewsservice@yahoo.com