Posted in Open Records on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Leslie Graves interviewed Tim Potts of Democracy Rising PA as part of her series of interviews with “Sunshine Activists” from around the nation.
Excerpts below. To read the entire interview, visit Leslie’s site.
• Charles Davis of the National Freedom of Information Coalition has talked about having “a FOI moment”. Have you had “a FOI moment” and […]
Posted in Open Records on Feb 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Over the next couple of days, unless events overtake us — which well they might — we will run some different takes on the current state of the open-records debate as it is playing out in the legislature on the shifting sands beneath Senate Bill 1.
Please join in the discussion.
We lead off with an opinion […]
Posted in Open Records on Feb 4th, 2008 No Comments »
1. Politics makes strange bedfellows. The Pennsylvania Association of Township Supervisors and the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association are both publicly calling for the enactment of the version Senate Bill 1 that the Senate unanimously approved on January 30th. That seemed highly unlikely during the past year, as the open-records bill went through an arduous evolution – […]
Posted in Open Records on Feb 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
You can get a heck of a ride just trying to keep up with the open records bill. In fact, just when we thought we were almost home – with the Senate having passed Senate Bill 1 by a vote of 50 yeas and 0 nays and House set to vote in the next few […]