Right here in my backyard, a really interesting look at the diplomacy, and lack thereof, in big-time college athletics: In November, Big 12 interim Commissioner Chuck Neinas steeled for battle as the conference that was temporarily placed in his hands continued to fracture. His secret weapon would be a legal document that he could “wave [...]
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Lawmakers have rejected an effort to revise West Virginia’s open records law, defeating a proposal that aimed to open personal emails sent from government accounts to public scrutiny based on the subject matter. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to reject a bill that would define a public record as any written information prepared or received by [...]
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A new trove of emails acquired by Judicial Watch show that the White House was intimately involved in managing the fallout from the Shirley Sherrod story, in which the USDA employee was forced to resign after Andrew Breitbart posted a fragmented video of one of her speeches to his website, Big Government. At the time, then-White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs [...]
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This is kinda cool.
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Well played, Mr. Stewart…well played.
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People are suddenly paying attention to FOI….and finding that, shock of shock, they are withholding all the good stuff.
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From Propublica: Initial estimate of the cost to produce the e-mails: $15 million ACTUAL COST: $725 per media org cd
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With the intensity typically reserved for tsunamis, coronation or world war, our nation’s news media stand poised, ready for the three-years-late release of then-Gov. Sarah Palin’s trove of e-mail. The fact that this story is (1) so old it grows mold, that (2) it has less than no meaningful news value as the woman is [...]
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If anyone has pictures of protesters with signs from this rally, which reportedly was held today….I’d love to see ‘em. One University of Michigan faculty member wants to make sure university leaders take great care in responding to the controversial Freedom of Information Act requests filed by theMackinac Center late last month. Ian Robinson, a lecturer in the Department [...]
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Note to journalists everywhere: sometimes you don’t need names to tell a great FOI tale…. A six-figure University of Tennessee donor called the school’s chancellor an “attack gator” because of his ties to the University of Florida and another called its athletic director “self-serving” and “inept.” Those comments were among more than a dozen email [...]
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