“These are Hitler tactics, and something has to be done.”
. There, the county has agreed to pay $52,000 — plus attorney fees — to a few animal rights activists who were threatened with arrest and otherwise intimidated by the local sheriff who didn’t like them publicly expressing their views on how the community’s largest employer, Smithfield Foods, treats the pigs it turns into millions of canned hams and bacon rashers.
I didn’t know Joan or Eric. But I knew Bill Meyer. He was Eric’s father and Joan’s husband and the leader of his newspaper and of his whole community from the day he showed up in Marion as a fresh journalism graduate in 1948 until he died in 2006.and a handful of other country editors who had the guts and commitment to run a hometown newspaper.
Reporters were looking into a tip that a local restaurant owner who was seeking a liquor license had been arrested for driving under the influence but continued to drive without a license. The newspaper, using public records, confirmed the information but had held off on the story because editors thought the source of the tip was smelly, apparently part of a nasty divorce.
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