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Jan 15, 2025 | 
coastalview.com | George Johnson
As we embrace the new year we are reminded of what matters most to us. Living here in Carpinteria makes us appreciate our natural surroundings and our small, beach town environment. Unfortunately, our unique lifestyle is being threatened by hundreds of new state housing laws which our local and county governments have no control over.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
dailyherald.com | George Johnson
Friends of Dundee Natural Areas’ presents a new brush mower to Dundee Township. Pictured from left, are Arin Thrower, Carol Weinhammer, Katie Meyer, Dan Kennedy and Kirby Dowiat. Courtesy of Katie Meyer Friends of Dundee Natural Areas, a nonprofit conservation charity, has donated a new $4,000 brush mowing machine to the Open Space Department of Dundee Township.
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May 24, 2024 | 
savageminds.substack.com | George Johnson |Nancy Kranich
People have challenged books for centuries. But following the pandemic, newly formed parents groups such as Moms for Liberty grew to include more than 200 local chapters, which shifted their attention from opposing mask mandates and school closures to restricting reading materials in public schools and libraries. The American Library Association (ALA) documented a few hundred book challenges annually prior to the pandemic.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
shorturl.at | George Johnson |KB Brookins
Content warning: This review contains mentions of sexual violence. "I contemplated whether I would write about you now that you are dead."— George M. JohnsonIt is the summer of 2006. I'm sitting on the eve of my childhood—which is the porch of my friend Melanie's house—wondering what we're going to do tonight. Maybe watch the Dallas Mavs vs. Miami Heat game. Maybe fantasize about sitting courtside at The Finals, but Melanie's dad said that'd only happen when the Mavs win tonight.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
lawenforcementtoday.com | Noah Webster |George Johnson |Susan Kuklin |Craig Thompson
Editor note: The content you're going to read about below may be incredibly offensive and disturbing to some readers - and is available for little children in the Granby, CT school district. GRANBY, CT - The saga of the sleepy small town of Granby, Connecticut, continues. Earlier in October, Law Enforcement Today (LET) told our readers about the leftist school superintendent of this town located about ten or so miles northwest of the capital city of Hartford.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
beltmag.com | Colin Williams |George Johnson
By Colin Williams This article was written and edited collaboratively between the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Pittsburgh City Paper, and Belt Magazine with support from the Pittsburgh Media Partnership. Hear more about this story on the City Cast Pittsburgh podcast here, Are Book Bans on Your Ballot on Nov. 7th.
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Sep 25, 2023 | 
booklistonline.com | George Johnson |Judy Blume |Amanda Gorman
In this episode of Shelf Care: The Podcast, host Susan Maguire talks to four people addressing banned books in different ways: Cortney Hall and Matt Rodrigues from NBC Chicago Today’s Banned Book Club; Amanda ReCupido, Vice President of the Downers Grove Public Library Foundation and chair of the committee for their freedom to read fundraising gala; and Adult Books Editor Donna Seaman, who shares a Booklist feature about censorship as well as a few books she’s been loving recently.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
time.com | George Johnson
The freedom to read is a right everyone should be afforded. Nick Higgins, the chief librarian at Brooklyn Public Library, has ensured that this freedom will endure. Through the library’s Books Unbanned program—which allows young people to browse its digital collections, regardless of where they live in the U.S.—Nick and his team have led the charge to provide free access to books that are being challenged and removed from library shelves across the country.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
pen.org | George Johnson |s Alex Gino
HomeHigh School and College Students Can Learn how to Become Free Expression Advocates and Combat Book Bans at PEN America’s Online Trainings This FallAuthors Alex Gino and George M. Johnson and Activist Mary Beth Tinker Join the Speakers Lineup FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMEDIA ADVISORY(New York)— Authors Alex Gino, and George M.
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May 20, 2023 | 
dailykos.com | Maia Kobabe |Jonathan Evison |George Johnson |Ashley Perez
Not to detract from the sheer ugliness of the practice (or its nasty historical antecedents), banning books in the internet age is about as futile an attempt at social control as you can imagine. About the only lasting thing it achieves is instilling a brief and fleeting sense of power among the banners themselves, who doubtlessly pat themselves on the back every time they succeed in browbeating some hapless school board or librarian into removing a certain book they disapprove of.
