From Project on Government Oversight:
POGO and our allies' new campaign to shine a light on the massive defense budget is steadily gaining steam. So far, thousands of people and scores of nonprofit organizations have voiced their support for opening up the Senate markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the bill that allocates hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year.
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From Daily Caller:
The FCC’s own Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reports suggests that the agency is actually more transparent than the federal government average, putting the agency at odds with numbers recently revealed by Florida House Republican Mario Diaz-Balart.
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From NECN.com:
Prosecutor Scott Ellington said Thursday he found sufficient evidence to charge four Bono city officials with misdemeanor violation of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
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From The Atlantic:
Big data is everywhere we look these days. Businesses are falling all over themselves to hire 'data scientists,' privacy advocates are concerned about personal data and control, and technologists and entrepreneurs scramble to find new ways to collect, control and monetize data. We know that data is powerful and valuable. But how?
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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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