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Secrecy Shrouds Key Jackson Documents Despite Durbin’s Sunshine Week Praise

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) was among the bipartisan group of signers of a March 16 Sunshine Week letter to Comptroller General Gene Dodaro declaring that the Freedom ...

March 21, 2022BY Mark Tapscott

Ernst Bill Would Create Executive Branch Transparency Czar in the White House

Executive branch officials who fail to follow federal laws guaranteeing public access to government documents would have to ...

March 16, 2022BY Mark Tapscott

Sen. Ernst to Introduce Bill Mandating Tracking White House, Executive Branch Carbon Emissions

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) says she is introducing legislation that would require the federal government to track and ...

March 17, 2021BY Mark Tapscott

Ernst Blasts Feds’ Wasteful ‘Turtles on a Treadmill’ Study as Senate Panel OKs Her Anti-SWAG Bill 5:3

WASHINGTON—Federal officials at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) spent an unknown ...

March 11, 2020BY Mark Tapscott

New Apps for Reporters Help Cover Schools, Courts, and Cops

Three new apps from a journalism advocacy organization will help reporters cover crime, police, and schools while in ...

March 19, 2015BY Genevieve Belmaker

Dear President Obama: It’s Sunshine Week, You Promised a New Era of Transparency, but We’re Still Waiting

So those fascinating President George W. Bush era emails remain hidden from the public. Mrs. Clinton's fascinating emails ...

March 17, 2015BY Mary Silver

Journalists Say Federal Agencies Restrict Access

“Most public information officers are great. But what can you do about the duds or jerks?”

March 20, 2012BY Mary Silver