Barker: I Palled Around w/Domestic Terrorist (DFO)

I must confess. I served on a committee with a domestic terrorist who was wanted by the government. You might say we “palled around” since we shared a few drinks at cocktail parties. I served on the Great Lakes Basin Commission’s Public Involvement Group with a man named Barry Freed in the late 1970s. Freed was an environmental activist from New York work to protect the St. Lawrence River and I was a weekly newspaper reporter from the Lake Superior region of Wisconsin. We served with small town... [read full story]