Residents left flowers outside the Marion County Record in central Kansas in remembrance of co-owner Joan Meyer, who died a day after police raided the newsroom. - Luke Nozicka/Kansas City Star/TNS
In the hours before 98-year-old Marion County Record co-owner Joan Meyer died — of a broken heart, a lifelong friend told me in a letter — she asked her son Eric over and over again, “Where are all the good people who are supposed to stop this from happening?” Where were the good people, she wondered, who could and should have stopped a cop with something to hide from raiding her paper, seizing her possessions and attacking her purpose? Though she didn’t live to see it, they did show up. On the Jost Funeral Home memorial page for Mrs. Meyer, someone who identified himself only as “Above the Fo...
