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Maverick Oregon newspaperman Les Zaitz would like to retire but, as with many rural newspapers, it's proving difficult to find someone to carry the torch.
The nation’s founders recognized that access to news and information was crucial to ensuring a robust republic with an engaged citizenry. To ensure that citizens, including those not privileged or affluent, could keep tabs on their government, they took two crucial steps. First, they established the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as part of the Bill of Rights. Among the five freedoms embedded in the First Amendment is the right to free speech and free press.
Maverick Oregon newspaperman Les Zaitz would like to retire but, as with many rural newspapers, it's proving difficult to find someone to carry the torch.
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