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  Kirby, Vermont resident Melanie Finn wants to restrict free speech and letter writers to the Caledonian Record.   "Limit length of letters. This paper needs more diverse, fresh voices on the letters page. Many other newspapers have such policies." Finn said. One would not need to look further than New Hampshire to see just how dangerously bad this would be.   All New Hampshire newspapers restrict length in one form or another. This isn't ideal but it's fair considering the rising costs of newsprint and the market competition newspapers face. These are also opinion letters not graduate level dissertations and some letter writers don't understand this. But the rest of the letter writing policies that exist in the Granite State are clear restrictions of free speech and constitutional rights.   This starts with one letter per month, geographical requirements for submission and with content has to be in alignment with the political philosophy of the editor. The...

The Trump inspired tariffs on Canada mean less freedom and first amendment rights.     One of the major tariff items imported from Canada that is causing this is newsprint. Some of the smaller newspapers in New Hampshire are reporting as much as a 35% increase in the price of newsprint. Newsprint Is Free Speech.   The impact of this is very clear: less newspapers, less words and less free speech.   In New Hampshire neither Governor Chris Sununu or one member of the congressional delegation has said anything about these tariffs and this is despite the granite state having over $500 million dollars a year in cross-border trade with Canada alot of which originates in the North Country.   These tariffs against Canada are very real. Sanctions against free speech are very real. Less newspapers are less free speech which will only embolden more sanctions to happen and they will.