The High Price of Transparency in India
Expertly documented by this New York Times story in yesterday’s paper: Amit Jethwa had just left his lawyer’s office after discussing a lawsuit he had filed to stop an illicit limestone quarry with...
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Image via Wikipedia The New York Times with a great FOI-driven story on the expanding dragnet after the Bush administration eased up on rules about domestic intel: Within months after the Bush...
View ArticleKeeping Austin Weird…
Image by Näystin via Flickr From a great NYT profile on Austin-based anarchist (can an anarchist really have a base?) Scott Crow… Blogged here by Reason: Mr. Crow, a lanky Texas native who works at a...
View ArticleFOI At Work: Metal Hip Implants Generate Massive Complaints
Image via Wikipedia Read this one carefully as the proud owner of an artificial hip (mine is NOT metal, thankfully!) in the New York Times: The federal government has received a surge in complaints in...
View ArticleNew York Times Takes A Look at the FOIA Slow Road…
In case you missed it, The New York Times had a really interesting piece on FOIA the other day. The money graf: On Jan. 4, The New York Times received a final response from the Defense Department to a...
View ArticleNot All Controls of Information Are Legal…All Are Bad.
It’s nice that the journalistic community is starting to speak with one voice about the insidious growth of non-legal forms of coercion being practiced with increasing impunity across the American...
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