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March 21, 2008

Sunshine: Opening incident reports right step

The Clarion-Ledger, 3/21/8 This is “Sunshine Week,” a time set aside every year to bring attention to the importance of openness in government and freedom of information. Fittingly, Mississippi just got a little sunshine. The Mississippi Legislature has approved a bill that would open law enforcement incident reports to the public. The bill, approved overwhelmingly…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 21, 2008

Reform in Miss., even educational, can come at a snail’s pace

The Clarion-Ledger Editorial, 3/21/8 Consolidation of public school districts in Mississippi seems to be the deadly “third rail” subject state legislators won’t touch, even while knowing that some counties incredibly have as many as six school districts with overlapping duties. Almost as lethal is the subject of taking school superintendents out of the political system…