Summary
BANGOR - Support for a proposed citywide ban in city buildings on magazines, brochures, newspapers and other publications not connected to departmental operations quickly eroded Monday during a City Council meeting.
"I think the solution here is much worse than the problem," Gerry Palmer, a former city councilor seeking re-election this fall, said about the policy, intended to prevent a proliferation of written material in the city's public buildings. Palmer called the proposed measure "a slippery slope. ... I think that it's ill-conceived. Well- intended, but ill-conceived."See the full content of this document
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Ban On Citywide Publications Fizzles
Zachary Heiden, staff attorney for the Maine Civil Liberties Union, called the policy a "blanket prohibition against speech" that "do...
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