From Caller.com:
The Sinton Independent School District has sued the city of Sinton over plans to install two wind turbines at the high school campus.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, asks a state district judge for an injunction allowing the turbine project to move forward.
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From Topeka Capital-Journal:
A district attorney’s investigation into private meetings between Republican legislators and GOP Gov. Sam Brownback won’t be finished until the end of the month because members of the governor’s staff and a few lawmakers still must be interviewed, a spokesman for the prosecutor said Tuesday.
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From Chillicothe Times-Bulletin:
The Chillicothe City Council meeting March 26 was a one-of-a-kind meeting due to a change of venue midstream, and it almost did not happen.
“One of the requirements of the Open Meetings Act is that the meeting be open to the public. Part of what that includes is that people who want to come to the meeting can actually get into the room and be at the meeting."
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From Miami Herald:
An appellate court says a grass company cannot obtain records of a University of Florida direct-support organization.
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From SF Gate:
When President Barack Obama addresses a national gathering of newspaper editors and publishers today, he will confront his promise of government transparency before an audience skeptical of his record.
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From Click2Houston.com:
Crisscrossing the U.S. during his unsuccessful presidential bid appears to have left Rick Perry little time for Texas, with the governor logging only about 24 hours of official time handling state matters during his nearly six-month campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of his office schedule.
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From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Last week’s passage of a revised Georgia Sunshine Law now blocks political campaigns, marketers and almost anyone else from access to residents’ email addresses on file with local governments.
Georgia’s Open Records Law has for years exempted Neighborhood Watch and similar contact information dealing with property security. But just about everything else has been fair game.
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From Lancaster Online:
Lancaster County commissioners are scheduled to vote Wednesday on an updated right-to-know policy. The proposed policy varies only slightly from the current policy, but there are some changes and additions that formalize current practices not listed anywhere by the county, according to Crystal Clark, county solicitor.
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From Concord Monitor:
In a column published in the Monitor yesterday, House Speaker Bill O'Brien and others argued that the vote to override the governor's veto of the House redistricting plan was conducted properly. He described the failure to publish the governor's veto message in the House Journal prior to the vote as a red herring and justified his tactical strategy of calling for a vote without notice to the public on the grounds of expediency.
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From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
State economic development incentives for large projects would remain secret until a company commits to a project or abandons negotiations, according to legislation that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.
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