Many of the Headlines This Month Reflect Medford.
How does a new mayor Re-Brand a City that has had DECADES of corruption seep in?
THE BASEBALL EXCUSE
CHEATING IS HOW BUSINESS IS DONE
sounds like the autobiography of bad cop
Paul Mackowski, doesn't it?
Yet, instead of being a hero, there are those who believe he violated the clubhouse code.
“I wish Fiers would have done it when he was on the Astros and not when he left,’’ Hawkins told USA TODAY Sports. “That would have more integrity. You win a World Series with them, go away and now you talk about it? If you had integrity, why didn’t you talk about it while it happened?
Last Week's L0w and Order: SVU
Artists Draws Attention for Lack of Help From the Police Department
The victim doesn’t feel like she’s getting anywhere, so she starts using her artistic abilities to get the point across. Markeevious Ryan is a famous former athlete, so the situation gets heated. Monica even chooses to have a protest that’s broadcast online. She gets arrested, which gets Counselor Dara Miglani (Mouzam Makkar) involved. Dara finds other women who have similar stories involving the suspect.
The Bully Podium: Is the First Amendment Defenseless?
Our sense, however, is that when the White House goes after its critics, the gravamen of the concern is an affront to the First Amendment. So for this post, we’d like to focus on whether there’s a First Amendment claim against government bullying of the press, and, if so, what that claim looks like.
A dominant feature of the monarchies that the nation’s Founders left behind was punishment of those who dared speak (or write) against the King. That’s why the Framers established a bulwark against such punishment in the First Amendment. And we as a nation have long recognized and protected the First Amendment principle that government cannot suppress or punish unfavorable coverage. As the Supreme Court explained almost a century ago in Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697, 710 (1931), the fundamental objective of the First Amendment’s drafters was to prevent government action restraining “publication of censure of public officers and charges of official misconduct.” See also N.Y. Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 292 (1964) (state action aimed at stifling criticism of the government “strikes at the very center of constitutionally protected expression”).
