Does the public really care about HB477 ? It’s a fair question. Because while the media is stirring a tempest, without public support, it will never get outside of the teapot. When the bill changing Utah’s decades old GRAMA law was proposed in the closing days of the Utah Legislative session, the press went crazy. […]
The Pentagon Papers of the Afghan War? Or more smoke than fire?
July 26, 2010 by
Image via Wikipedia Check it at the New York Times here, the Wall Street Journal here, Boing Boing here, and especially here, at Wikileaks. It may be the “largest intelligence leak in history”. Here are a few books that you might want to read: Taliban, by Ahmed Rashid, Ghost Wars by Steve Coll, Unholy Wars […]
The Freedom of Information Act and the Presidency
March 19, 2010 by
During my undergrad days, I did a stint as a lowly intern in a mammoth sized bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. The building that housed the “Department” was built in the 1950s, and it smelled that way, too. One of my main tasks, other than attending endless meetings on subject matter about which I knew or […]
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