3/ "5 members of the Marion Police Dept executed shocking raid on the newspaper’s office — seizing its computers, cell phones, notebooks, other reporting materials. The raiding officers even fanned out to the home of the Meyer family, which has owned the Record for decades. Co-owner Joan Meyer — age 98, mother to current publisher, Eric Meyer — was stunned, in tears as cops seized her computer and the router for her Alexa device, a lifeline, while sifting through her son’s banking records.."
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4/ “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done,” Joan Meyer, who had worked in journalism since 1953 — those heady democracy days after World War II — told a reporter. She was too upset by the raid — which seemed a violation of existing law, not to mention First Amendment principles — to sleep or even eat. On Saturday afternoon, the nonagenarian Meyer — who’d been in good health — abruptly died, the latest casualty in a cold Civil War already ripping America apart."