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Even in rural Marion County there are lines. When they get crossed — or trampled on — the excrement rightly and squarely hits the ventilating system.

People have an idea in their heads about what it is like to work for a newspaper. It’s an idea that, like many things, is shaped by movies and television. Editors bark orders and chew cigars like the Daily Bugle’s J. Jonah Jameson. Reporters flock on the steps of every

Authoritarian governments have tried to silence the free press throughout history, and we have to call it out when we see it in our own backyard. | Opinion

TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach says state authorities reviewing alleged crimes associated with the raid of a Marion newspaper are interested in whether someone breached the Kansas

You might have missed last weekend’s news about the Saturday death of 98-year-old Joann Meyer in the small town of Marion, Kansas.

This is about a police force essentially shrugging off the law and the Constitution. It’s about an intrusion into newsgathering that almost never happens because it so profoundly violates one of our deepest American values – the primacy of the public’s right to know, writes journalist Celia Wexler.

It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with to-talitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors. Yet

A prosecutor said Wednesday that the raid on the Marion County Record was not supported by evidence and items will be returned. Read more here.

 

The raid on the Kansas newsroom last Friday was unprecedented in the U.S., the international organization said.