privilege
An attempt to weaken Arkansas public records law fails in committee
Citizens prevailed over government secrecy Wednesday night in one of two skirmishes over your right to know. After nearly three hours of testimony, much of it from citizens who identified themselves as Republicans, the House State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee rejected a proposal that would have “disemboweled” the state’s public records law, as one […]
Martin Luther King ‘reigns as a man who saw tomorrow’ on ‘relentless tokenism’
Republished from the Kansas Reflector — which, through its opinion section, works to amplify the voices of people who are affected by public policies or excluded from public debate. Some historians mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder as the end of the civil rights movement. Over an arc of 14 years — from […]