Columns/Editorials
January 22, 2021

an editorial – Intent was to localize national story

By From JT Staff Reports

Quite an uproar developed last week after stories about the Jan. 6 events in Washington D.C. at the Capitol were published in the Journal-Tribune.
We reached out to Marysville City Councilman Aaron Carpenter, who had traveled to the nation’s capital that day. An eruption came from those not in agre...

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