Posts Tagged ‘First Amendment’
Hijacked holiday
When did Wakefield‘s official Martin Luther King Day observance turn into a partisan political rally? That’s what happened on Monday when two of the main speakers, State Senator Jason Lewis and State Rep. Kate Lipper-Garabedian, stepped to the microphone and hijacked this solemn event to bash the sitting American president with highly partisan speeches. There […]
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Sentimental journey
So, it’s settled. A majority of the Wakefield Town Council gets to define what “Official Town Sentiment” is. The Council voted earlier this month to give itself the power to determine what constitutes Official Town Sentiment, at least in terms of which flags can be flown from town flagpoles as an expression of such sentiment. […]
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Fine print
Lately, I don’t feel like my week is complete until I’ve been lectured by a millennial about one thing or another. Usually it’s about the evil of plastic bags or how many genders there are or how the Founding Fathers all smoked hemp, dude. The usual venue for these sermons is social media, where I’m […]
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Mark Sardella 