A New York development company says its proposed 136-unit apartment complex in the 300 block of East Madison Street would help to address a longstanding need for more residential options in downtown Springfield. The $28.3...
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Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories – like Watergate before the 1972 election – that aren't censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader, expanded sense reflective of what a functioning democracy should be, censorship defined as "the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method – including bias, omission, underreporting, or self-censorship – that prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in society." It is, after all, the reason that journalism enjoys special protection in the First Amendment: Without the free flow of vital information, government based on the consent of the governed is but an illusory dream...
