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In a previous lifetime, I was editor of a daily newspaper whose telephone records were secretly obtained by police as they tried to find out who talked to a reporter […]

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Larry Lough

Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.

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