East was involved in early steps to reinvigorate downtown Tulsa, acquisition of the Air Force Plant 3 building and suing over chicken operations for polluting Tulsa s water supply.
Athony Insolia was the editor of Newsday from late 1977 until his retirement 10 years later, a period when the newspaper won seven Pulitzer Prizes, expanded its foreign reporting staff to multiple far-flung bureaus, and solidified its reputation for hard-hitting, street-wise journalism close to home.