FreeKeene’s Ian Guest Hosts on WKBK’s “Talkback”

radiotower.jpgThis morning, I appeared on WKBK’s “Talkback” with Cynthia Georgina to discuss the Free State Project. We ended up discussing a variety of other things as well over the two hours and heard from supportive callers as well as some very angry authoritarians! Download the MP3. As you listen, you may notice that there is an occasional bit of missing audio. This is because the board operator was dumping three second blocks of speech including words like “hell” and “damn”.

NH Attorney General Threatens Candidate Julia Miranda

julia-city.jpgWard 4 City Council candidate Julia Miranda has been threatened with one to seven years in state prison by the New Hampshire Attorney General. In a “Cease and Desist Order” sent to Miranda today, the Attorney General alleges that Ms. Miranda’s offer to give away her $500 city council paychecks to randomly chosen Ward 4 voters amounts to “a direct or indirect bribe”. (more…)

COMMUNITY PUBLIC ACCESS, FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS THREATENED IN MONADNOCK REGION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31 October 2007

Contact: Lee Perkins, Director, Cheshire TV (603) 283-6621
PRESS CONFERENCE: Heberdon Hall, Winter St, Keene, NH on Thursday, November 1, 8:30a

COMMUNITY PUBLIC ACCESS, FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS
THREATENED IN MONADNOCK REGION

(Keene, NH) Residents of this picture-perfect New England city best known for the annual Pumpkin Festival may lose their local community access channel, Cheshire TV, if mogul Time Warner Cable does not honor and amend its franchise agreement with the City of Keene.

Most pressing is that Cheshire TV will run out of money in about 30 days. (more…)

Response to an Anonymous Coward

It appears that someone has created a hit piece blog directed against several of the bloggers and the ideas presented here at FreeKeene.com. Notice a couple of critical differences between our blog and the hit piece blog:

  • Here at FreeKeene.com, everything we post has a comments area. Anyone with an e-mail address can post their comments on this site. The hit piece blog however, has no comments option.
  • Every blogger at FreeKeene.com is clearly identifiable and they’ve all written their own biographies. Our bloggers are your neighbors, friends, coworkers, and maybe even your family. The blogger at the hit piece is anonymous.

From this point on, for the sake of simplicity the anonymous blogger will be called “Fred”. In his first post he writes, (more…)