Title

The fifth annual Muzzle Awards singles out 10 enemies of free speech and persona

Authors

Dan Kennedy

Source

Portland Phoenix

Date

7-5-2002

Pages

1, 16

Abstract

The fifth annual Muzzle Awards singles out 10 enemies of free speech and personal liberties in New England, including Maine governor Angus King , who made the list for having barred the public from a security conference designed to develop a blueprint to protect the state and its people from the threat of terrorism, and the Biddeford City Council, which pulled the plug on local public-access cable in a dispute with Dorothy Lafortune. The other Muzzle Award winners include the Massachuettts Department of Corrections; Richard Sullivan, the chief of [police of Providence; U.S. represenative Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat; the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Greta Holman, a Provincetown official; the Massachusetts Department of Education; the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Protection, a James Gallagher, the chief of police of Worcester, Mass.

Subjects

Biddeford City Council, Free speech, Portland Phoenix Muzzle Awards, Rewards, prizes, etc, King, Angus S Jr

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