Less than a week before Student Press Freedom Day, Denver Archdiocese spokesman Mark Haas defended Regis Jesuit High School’s recent decision to retract an issue of its student magazine, Elevate, over a student’s controversial pro-choice op-ed.
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Heidi Ganahl Deleted Her Accounts on Far-Right Sites Parler & Gab Months Before Launching Campaign For Governor
CU Regent Heidi Ganahl faced some tough questions at her gubernatorial campaign kickoff earlier this week. In addition to her refusal to say the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, Ganahl expressed frustration over questions about her decision to scrub 90% of her Tweets prior to launching her campaign. She didn’t get asked about her deletion of two other social media accounts, Parler and Gab, which took place sometime earlier this year.
Opinions
Columnists shouldn’t have trumpeted outlier poll showing free speech is “deeply imperiled” on campuses
The Denver Post has run two guest opinion columns (by a local columnist here and by a syndicated columnist here) relying heavily on a dubious study, financed by the right-wing Koch Foundation and conducted by a UCLA professor, which concluded that “freedom of expression is deeply imperiled on U.S. campuses.”
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State Sen. Tim Neville loves the First Amendment…sometimes
Ran across a post by state Sen. Tim Neville (R-Littleton) on Facbook in which he laments a law in Hawaii that requires sham “pregnancy centers” to let women know that abortion is an available alternative.