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I was speaking during the public comment portion of a city council meeting on the topic of the California Fair…
My county passed a COVID-19 public ordinance stating that citizens are prohibited from participating in public gatherings and can be…
I live in a large community governed by a Home Owners’ Association (HOA). It recently passed a regulation that restricts…
Recently Facebook removed a comment I made on my account and warned me about “hate speech.” This is a real…
We have a question about properly citing Court documents in one of our articles. We ran a story based on…
Can I sue a newspaper for refusing to publish a full-page obituary that I was paying for. I used two…
I was terminated earlier this year from a job on a social media team at an entity that was publicly…
I am currently a high school student and I am also a minor. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, our school…
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, churches and church members have been banned far too long from practicing their religious beliefs. I…
The mayor of a California city posted some troubling and inaccurate messages about the Black Lives Matter movement on the…