A former northern Wisconsin librarian from Ashland has been given the 2005 First Amendment Award by international writer’s organization PEN America. A woman stood up to a Patriot Act subpoena demanding the names of people who read a book about Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks. Mike Simonson reports…
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