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June 25, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—Evidence that may be re-introduced in the Anthony McKinney case has stalled the question of whether student journalists qualify under the Illinois Reporter’s Act.
June 4, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—Violent video game advertisements cannot be banned by the Chicago Transit Authority, according to a court judgment.
May 26, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO-Cook County Circuit Court Judge Diane Cannon has scheduled oral arguments on the state’s attorney’s subpoena which will determine whether student journalists at Northwestern University will have to turn over their notes and interviews to the state.
April 13, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—Roxana Saberi was willing to die for the truth.
April 8, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—Hip hop music has lessons that can help change the criminal justice system, according to former federal prosecutor Paul Butler.
April 8, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Paul Butler, author of “Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Criminal Justice,” talks about jury nullification, and current issues in the war on drugs and criminal justice with Post-Exchange reporter Jamie Loo.
April 6, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—Popular music and borrowing from major product campaigns is common in political advertisements.
March 24, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO--Mitt Romney said he believes the court challenges to federal healthcare legislation have merit and should be filed.
March 10, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
ELMHURST—The prayer before meetings issue has already become distracting to city business and will continue to divert attention from government issues if codified, residents and alderman said.
March 8, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO— The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is doing a national survey on housing discrimination against the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgendered community and kicked off their efforts in the city.
February 25, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—Power is in the pen and microphone for these teens. About 60 students took the stage at Columbia College on Tuesday to participate in the second day of preliminary bouts in the Louder than a Bomb spoken word competition.
February 12, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—Attorneys for Anthony McKinney have dropped evidence that could potentially moot the subpoenas for Northwestern University student journalists’ notes and grades.
February 10, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
ELMHURST—Clarifying who has the power to place things on the City Council agenda has put the debate on prayer before meetings on hold.
February 2, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
ELMHURST—The Rev. Tony Taschetta said he knew what he was about to do was a “little controversial.”
January 26, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Editors of the Stevenson High School newspaper resigned last week after nearly two months of simmering tensions with administrators on newspaper issues.
January 20, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—A defamation case involving a Twitter post was thrown out by a Cook County Circuit Court judge today.
January 11, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO — Local and national news organizations have filed a brief in court supporting student journalists at Northwestern University who are fighting state subpoenas for their notes and grades.
January 8, 2010 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO—A district court judge has issued an order prohibiting the Chicago Transit Authority from banning violent computer and video game advertisements.
December 23, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Should schools deck the halls with boughs of anything this time of year?
December 18, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
LINCOLNSHIRE ― Evan Ribot said student leaders at the Statesman have given this speech too many times to deaf ears.
December 4, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
The government’s authority to wiretap and perform surveillance on people through the U.S.A Patriot Act could change soon, as Congress prepares to consider provisions that expire at the end of this year.
December 3, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Censorship or editing? It depends on who you ask at Stevenson High School.
November 24, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Newspaper work didn’t come naturally to Elena Milashina. After graduating from Moscow University, Milashina said most of her friends went into television journalism but she chose newspapers.
November 9, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
The Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today, reunifying Germany.
November 9, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
A large segment of the Berlin Wall has its home in a train station in Chicago. The wall was unveiled in the Western Avenue Brown Line station in 2008.
November 9, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
For more resources on the Berlin Wall, check out these links.
November 3, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Tattoos have been around for hundreds of years but haven’t always been acceptable in some societies and cultures. Although tattoos are becoming more popular, some artists and tattoo enthusiasts at the BodyArtExpo at Navy Pier in October said they still face discrimination.
October 27, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Former senator and historian, George McGovern, said dealing with global hunger issues are his big passion now.
October 27, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Former Sen. George McGovern said health care reform can be achieved in a one sentence bill.
October 9, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said women have to be part of the solution on many international issues and that she is glad to see women’s rights become part of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s agenda and a priority for the United Nations.
October 1, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
While supporters of a 2016 Olympics in Chicago are on a media blitz before Friday’s International Olympic Committee vote, they will likely be more camera-shy with planning information if the city wins the bid.
The Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) won’t apply to the city’s organizing committee if Chicago gets the Olympics, but an ordinance passed by the city council provides a few safeguards to open public records.
September 15, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Go back to your childhood.
Imagine being age 6, 7 or 8 years-old and playing with your friends outside. Suddenly,
you hear gunfire and bombs. You go home to find your house on fire and your parents
being arrested.
September 4, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Sweeping changes to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) have been signed
into the law, which open government advocates say will result in better access to
public documents and more government transparency.
August 28, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
The right to vote, at age 18. Increasing the minimum wage. Employment opportunities for the disabled. Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy helped make these civil rights and quality of life initiatives possible. The senator passed away at the age of 77 late Tuesday night.
August 18, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
The Chicago Transit Authority’s rule prohibiting advertisements for violent video games is being challenged in court for allegedly violating constitutionally protected speech.
August 7, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO – The hateful yelling, obscenities and dirty looks from those passing by is nothing new to Elizabeth Phelps.
July 24, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is considering a new rule that could severely limit what religious publications inmates have access to, according to the proposal’s opponents.
July 16, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Housing rights for the developmentally disabled in Illinois won’t change for now, after a court ruling that dismisses the class action portion of the Ligas v. Maram lawsuit.
July 2, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
CHICAGO – Amanda Umstatte strode confidently past her mother and handed a slightly crinkled handwritten letter to the judge.
June 25, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
A fax machine in Chicago may become one of the few links for news out of Iran if the government shuts down the Internet.
June 18, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
After spending three months in thigh deep mud, in cramped quarters with no showers, Bridget Altenburg’s U.S. Army unit finally left Albania and arrived back in Germany.
June 4, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
Unfurling a protest banner in Tiananmen Square is likely to put you on the other side of the law.
Without official approval from the Chinese government, public displays of dissent could land you in jail.
May 26, 2009 - By Jamie Loo, First Amendment reporter
After more than two months in jail, two American journalists will be facing trial in North Korea next week, at a time when international tensions with the country are growing over missiles testing.
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