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Pandemic offers a chance to reset
Oct 1, 2020
Colleges and universities have become the new pandemic hot spots across the country. A New York Times study of more than 1,600 American colleges and universities — including every four-year public ...
Surviving a crisis — is your newspaper in trouble?
Oct 1, 2020
Jerry Bellune shared the following editorial that ran in the Sept. 24 edition of the Lexington (South Carolina) County Chronicle & The Dispatch News. "It's a letter to our readers and advertisers ...
You have a right to speak, assemble, petition — so now, register to vote
Sep 24, 2020
Gene Policinski talks about the importance of National Voter Registration Day and how voting on Nov. 3 is the ultimate expression of our First Amendment right "of the people peaceably to assemble, and ...
Attention police: Stop attacking journalists for doing their jobs
Sep 17, 2020
Gene Policinski talks about another recent press/police incident and how police must recognize that journalists observing arrests are not interfering – they are present to represent all of us, as ...
‘What comes before freedom of speech?’
Sep 11, 2020
David Callaway talks about freedom of speech and what came before that – freedom of conscience, and how the right to believe our deepest beliefs originally separated what we think of as the First ...
The right to peacefully protest needs better supporters
Sep 3, 2020
Laws like the ones proposed by Congressman Banks create what we call a “chilling effect” on First Amendment rights. They don’t outright ban assembly, but create repercussions that intimidate ...
We march, demonstrate and protest: We’re America
Aug 27, 2020
Gene Policinski discusses the history behind the March on Washington taking place tomorrow and how marches, protests and demonstrations, on the street and now online, are how the United States talks to ...
Harsh words in presidential campaigns: Protected, nothing new
Aug 20, 2020
The high legal bar for public figures to successfully sue for defamation, combined with a historical judicial reluctance to intervene in political campaigns, allows candidates and their surrogates to sling ...
Congress needs to act to protect USPS
Aug 14, 2020
Democrats have proposed over $3.6 billion for voting by mail at a time when casting ballots in person is a perilous chore for many. And they’ve asked for $25 billion to finally shore up the postal ...
