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myrmepropagandist Aug 15, 2023

Longtime Marion County Record journalist Joan Meyer, 98, died Saturday less than 24 hours after a police raid at her home.

Something is going down in Marion County. The police have raided the newspaper office and taken all the computers. A dedicated local journalist dies after a police raid?

That same paper's attempt to write about the DUI of a prominent restaurant owner may have caused the raid?

What is happening to our small towns?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-whole-lot-of-history-dies-with-newspaper-veteran-joan-meyer-after-police-raid/ar-AA1fgibD

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👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle Aug 15, 2023

@futurebird Sure they weren't always like that, and we're just learning about it more now because of the internet?

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SinclairLewis [Minnesota]

@futurebird @Fragglemuppet I hate to disabuse you of the traditional bucolic view of American small towns, but they have always been like this. The locally rich forge alliances with local and county officials to exert control and expand their reach. In one small town I lived in, Montevideo MN, we called them the Monty Mafia.