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Books in schools and libraries increasingly have targets on their spines. The more partisan the battle has become, the more it manifests as a power struggle, rather than an effort to best serve children.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

The Maine Turnpike Authority is looking to a future with cashless tolling lanes, months after completing a new toll plaza on I-95 in York.

‘Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemism?” Judge Clayton Horn wrote in 1967, ruling that Allen Ginsberg’s Howl was not obscene. “An author should be real in treating his subject and...

Today, a bronze plaque at Bebelplatz reads: “That was but a prelude / where they burn books / they will ultimately burn people as well.” - Heinrich Heine 1820

We need to stop banning books. It leads to ignorance, the washing away of history and the creation of an uninformed and unintelligent society.

“Some community opinions are that this book is pornographic and obscene … I vehemently disagree with that.”

The York School Committee voted unanimously to keep "It's Perfectly Normal" in the middle school library.

The York School Committee is considering banning a book called "It's Perfectly Normal".

Right-wing groups are limiting student access to books about race, gender and sexuality.