Sunshine Week in DC

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If you’re going to be in DC during Sunshine Week – March 16-22Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley will address Freedom of Information and other open government issues during a Sunshine Week dinner event March 18 at The National Press Club. The dinner is being jointly presented by Sunshine Week and the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library.

The speech will update Curley’s 2004 Hays-Enterprise Lecture which many view as a defining moment in moving forward the myriad efforts ongoing now to preserve and protect access to information. “The government is pushing hard for secrecy,” he said in the Hays speech. “We must push back equally hard for openness.” Curley’s 2008 speech will look ahead to priorities in the new administration.

Keeping an Eye on MN Legislature

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How and where Minnesota’s Congressional delegation working on Internet issues. Some interesting stories linked to each legislator’s name and locale. (Save the Internet)

A quick glimpse at legislative, judicial and regulatory realities in Minnesota, published by Free Press.
Note that Free Press will be holding their Media Reform Conference in Mpls June 6-8 2008. – Just as the title suggests, a look at who owns TV, radio, print media, the web, films and more.

State Highways and Bridges

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Because the Minnesota Legislative Auditor’s Report on State Highways and Bridges grabbed all of the headlines today you probably know that it was little critical of MnDOT’s decisions and forthright communication with the public. Che

Come to hear more from Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles at the premier “COGI-tations” program sponsored by MnCOGI and Common Cause Minnesota – Tuesday, April 8, 5:00 p.m. at the TIES administrative office, Snelling and Larpenteur in St. Paul.

COGI Quote – Feb 18

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Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? Socrates