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2025 PRINTING DATES
- January 1st Edition
Deadline: 1/8 Publication: 1/10
- January 2nd Edition
Deadline: 1/22 Publication: 1/24
- Feb. 1st Edition (Black History)
Deadline: 2/2 Publication: 2/5
- February 2nd Edition
Deadline: 2/17 Publication: 2/19
- March 1st Edition (Irish Heritage)
Deadline: 3/3 Publication: 3/5
- March 2nd Edition
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- April 2nd Ed. (Workers Memorial)
Deadline: 4/14 Publication: 4/16
- May 1st Edition (May Day)
Deadline: 4/28 Publication: 4/30
- May 2nd Edition (Memorial Day)
Deadline: 5/12 Publication: 5/14
- June 1st Edition (Juneteenth)
Deadline: 5/26 Publication: 5/28
- June 2nd Edition (4th of July)
Deadline: 6/23 Publication: 6/25
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Deadline: 7/7 Publication: 7/9
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Deadline: 7/21 Publication: 7/23
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Deadline: 8/4 Publication: 8/6
- August 2nd Edition (Labor Day)
Deadline: 8/18 Publication: 8/20
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Deadline: 9/1 Publication: 9/3
- Sept. 2nd Ed. (Hispanic Heritage)
Deadline: 9/15 Publication: 9/17
- October 1st Edition
Deadline: 9/29 Publication: 10/1
- October 2nd Edition
Deadline: 10/13 Publication:10/15
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Deadline: 10/27 Publication:10/29
- Nov. 2nd Edition (Thanksgiving)
Deadline:11/10 Publication:11/12
- December 1st Edition (XMAS)
Deadline:11/24 Publication:11/26
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Deadline: 12/8 Publication: 12/10
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Tristin Amezcua-Hogan is the Editor of The Labor Beacon and a member of LIUNA Local 264. Tristin also serves as the Director of Communications for the Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO and the Chair of the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance.
Tristin grew up as the son of a UA Local 669 member in Tecumseh, KS and the great-nephew of George C. Amis, longtime leader of the United Rubberworkers (now USW Local 307) in Kansas. Growing up in rural Kansas as the child of teen parents, Tristin quickly came to appreciate the life-changing benefit of a union job.
Tristin and his partner, Rebeca Amezcua-Hogan, are residents of the Westside, Kansas City, MO's historic Mexican neighborhood. They are proud members of Kansas City's New Reform Temple.
