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Sunday, April 05
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Guest editorial: Restoring openness
President Barack Obama took a long step forward last week to fulfill a promise of greater transparency in government by mandating a 180-degree change in the handling of Freedom of Information requests. Attorney General Eric Holder directed all agencies to act on the presumption that documents...
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Guest editorial: Legal but not ethical
Thank goodness the 2009 session of the Georgia General Assembly is at its end. Not a moment too soon. There are some lawmakers in that aghast body (yes, we meant aghast) who are only concerned with what’s legal and what’s not. Whether an action is legal or not isn’t the right...
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Nobody's watching
EVER NOTICE that politicians, on state and federal levels alike, have a habit of passing legislation that sounds great, and for which they are not reluctant to praise themselves, and then turn away and never bother to make sure the thing is working as promised?
It doesn’t happen quite as...
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Mike Lester's cartoon
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