From the editor - Books are for exploring not banning Libraries are special
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September 20, 2017
It’s Banned Books Week again, Sunday through Saturday the 30th.
Why do “we” – libraries, citizens, bookstores and newspapers – make a big show, proclaiming a week every September to rally our communities against the specter of banned books? Being against banned books is in a newspaper’s DNA. The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution reads, in part: “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
Books, of course, are speech, written down.
This paper’s position on banning books: it’s against it.
That’s against anyone banning...
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