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Posts about llano county written by Tim Cushing

There's a lot of book banning going on right now in the Land of the Free. It's mostly localized to certain areas of the country -- states and cities overseen by bigots who finally feel they're allowed to let their freak flag fly (instead of, or on top of the American flag which may or…

Eight books dealing with subjects including racism and transgender issues must be returned to library shelves in a rural Texas county that had removed them in an ongoing book banning controversy, a divided panel of three federal appeals court judges ruled Thursday.

With oral arguments set for June 7 before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, librarians and publishers have weighed in on a closely watched case in Texas concerning the banning of books in Llano County, Texas.

A prominent feature of the assault on freedom of thought and expression in the US is the race to ban books.