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Published
September 15, 2023

Commentary: Meta can’t dodge controversy on Threads forever

Restricting searches on terms like ‘COVID’ is a flawed response to the challenge social platforms face balancing public safety and free expression.
Published
August 31, 2023

Commentary: Kansas restaurant owner’s cockeyed complaint about paper doesn’t justify venom

Besides adding to the general toxicity and sense of aggrievement, it only makes the martyred recipient more convinced.
Published
August 30, 2023

Kansas reporter files federal lawsuit against police chief who raided her newspaper’s office

Marion County Record reporter, Deb Gruver said in a statement that by filing her lawsuit 'I’m standing up for journalists across the country.'
Published
August 21, 2023

The initial online search spurring a raid on a Kansas paper was legal, a state agency says

The raid on the Record put it and its hometown of about 1,900 residents at the center of a debate about press freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Kansas’ Bill of Rights.
Published
August 14, 2023

Kansas police, small newspaper at center of 1st Amendment fight after newsroom raid

While a restaurant owner accused the newspaper of unlawfully seeking information on the status of her driver's license, the newspaper countered that it received that information unsolicited, which it verified through public online records.

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Published
August 13, 2023

Police face criticism for raiding central Kansas newspaper, seizing phones and computers

The newspaper plans to sue the police department and possibly others, its publisher and co-owner said and called the raid an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment’s free press guarantee.
Published
August 13, 2023

Augusta officials look to ban hate-speech and other offensive materials from buildings in public view

City councilors cold to proposal to regulate murals, but direct city attorney to recommend changes to city regulations to ensure hate symbols and other offensive images or words can't be placed on building walls visible to the public.
Published
July 4, 2023

Judge limits Biden administration in working with social media companies

The lawsuit alleged that the federal government overstepped in its efforts to convince social media companies to address postings that could result in vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic or affect elections.
Published
April 4, 2023

Commentary: Maine must stop trying to bypass Supreme Court decision on schools

The outcome in Carson v. Makin made clear that such religious discrimination in our education system must end. Why hasn’t it?
Published
March 29, 2023

Clarence Page: Don’t let press freedom die in the ‘Sunshine State,’ or anywhere else

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claims he’s helping ordinary people while threatening rights that make our democracy a model for the world.