Free Events Celebrating Sunshine Week in NH
MANCHESTER —The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides for the “right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” But what does that mean and
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MANCHESTER —The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides for the “right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” But what does that mean and
Reply October 2018: The first hearing in the case New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism v. New Hampshire Department of Justice seeking the release of the police names on the so-called Laurie List. (Nancy West/InDepthNH.org) MANCHESTER, NH — The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides for the "right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." But what does that mean and how does it work? On Monday, March 15, from 6:30 to 8 pm, the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications and the New England First Amendment Coalition are celebrating Sunshine ...
Award-winning First Amendment Activism Highlighted for Sunshine Week, 2021 Manchester, NH – In 2017, the City of Keene denied the Right to Know requests of five Keene State College journalism students made as part of an annual classroom assignment. The students decided to fight back. Their teacher, Dr. Marianne Salcetti, who represented them, and David K. Taylor of Right to Know NH, who helped them, tell their story. The case took the team from the classroom, through the Cheshire County Superior Court and to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Learn how they did it, and how you can use the...
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides for the “right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” But what does that mean and how does it work? On March 15, from 6:30pm - 8 pm, the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications and the New England First Amendment Coalition are celebrating Sunshine Week with an expert, online panel discussion, Keeping the Light On: Holding Government Accountable.
All this week on The Exchange, it's another opportunity to hear some of our most interesting discussions of the year. NHPR's Peter Biello talked with the author of a biography of Nackey Scripps Loeb. She headed the Union Leader Corporation in the 1980s and 1990s, one of the most unusual and influential local newspapers in the U.S. Her unapologetic conservatism and position in the first-in-the-nation primary state gave her an outsized and now largely forgotten role in American politics. Although she initially had no interest in the newspaper business, she wrote more than a thousand front-page ...