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Recapping the “open government” agenda in the Tennessee Legislature now that lawmakers are safely home
The two biggest surprises from the just-ended legislative session were the unprecedented high number of bills affecting open records and meetings, public notices, and an assortment of other First Amendment issues and the failure in the Senate to close gun carry permit files. The 30 bills represented three times the norm for a single year…
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A not-so-secret scuffle over what’s secret
The Knoxville News Sentinel finds itself in the middle of a semantic veg-a-mantic between Us. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., and MSNBC’s news personality Rachel Maddow. Maddow picked up on a Michael Collins piece in the News Sentinel/knoxnews on the Washington conclave known as the “C Street House,” which Wamp shares with several other members of…
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I read that, too
Much of the Internet is simply counter-intuitive. I think that’s one of the first thing you have understand to figure it out. The largest Web site on earth, Google, gets its traffic, for instance, by sending users away. There are other examples that, I’m sure, you’ve noticed. But here’s a counter-intuitive doozie. The Internet with…