Emily White writes: “Some people protest with signs. Two Meridian women are making their voices heard through a book-stocked vending machine. After the Concerned Citizens of Meridian gave the Meridian Library District a list of over 50 books it wanted to restrict access to last year, Shelley Searle, who runs two vending machines in the Treasure Valley, and Chelsea Major, who started a banned book club in 2022, decided to team up to create a banned book vending machine.” The machine opened at Loose Screw Beer Co. in Meridian July 26.