As a former newspaper publisher and a Haines Borough Assembly member who
pushed to get a second public comment period on assembly meeting agendas, I am
sensitive to complaints that I limited free speech or censored public comment at
Tuesday’s Haines Borough Assembly meeting.
As meeting chair, it’s my job to maintain order and decorum during meetings.
During public comment at Tuesday’s meeting, a citizen raised an issue about an
individual assembly member’s statement that…