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April 28, 2008

Restoring collegiality

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 4/27/8 At the close of Mississippi’s 2008 legislative session an Associated Press photographer snapped a shot of Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant and Speaker of the House Billy McCoy sitting in their shirtsleeves, talking amicably in the Capitol. It was a rare moment, more personal than political, and almost poignant…
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April 28, 2008

Openness gets boost from new Legislature

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 4/27/8 Open government advocates have had some rough years in the Legislature. After Watergate and a series of legislative scandals in the 1970s, the public focused on government ethics. Mississippi got the Open Meetings Act in 1975, the creation of the Ethics Commission in 1979 and the Public Records Act in 1983.…