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- Freelance stories to Southeast Missourian, the Holland Sentinel and... you?
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- I've covered local government (city and county) and general news at the SE Missourian July 2007-May 2009; features and GA stories for the Holland Sentinal from April 2005-June 2007. My writing has appeared in The Detroit News, The Macomb Daily, The Oakland Press, Metro Times, Detroit Monthly Magazine and many other periodicals as well as in reference books on business and culture.
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Just responded to your comment on the Sunshine Week section, so I won't repeat it here. I did want to confess, however, that I flubbed your Ashcroft quote challenge -- though it sounded famliar as soon as I read it. How embarrassing ...
I cover city (and sometimes county) government in Southeast Missouri and routinely deal with Sunshine issues. Monday's "Lost on Main Street" column alerts readers to the upcoming Sunshine Week and I'm blogging on the same issue.
Here is a quote I'm using at a theme for my column Monday — can you tell me (without Googling) who said:
"Information — or transparency — is the enemy of corruption. Corruption feeds and breeds from secrecy and ignorance. It cannot thrive under the light spread by an open, informed society."
We have a slew of municipal elections coming up on April. 8 -- so many races our coverage is being divvied up among reporters. I plan to ask each of the candidates I profile about open government as well as whether they have attended any of our state attorney general's Sunshine Law workshops.
The class is given every other year (next one in Jan. 2009) and I know of at least one city in my coverage area that has never trained its officials. This could explain why they hang up on me all the time :) , not to mention the recent closed meeting and failed vote to impeach the mayor. I did not make that up, either.
Mostly I came here to look for ideas, to get a journalistic kickstart.
One thing we've done already here is videotaped meetings and broadcast excerpts on our Web site -- only one muncipality airs the city council meeting on a local cable access station.
This site is a great idea. Thanks for doing it!
Peg
With apologies for taking so long to get back to you, I was just curious what prompted you to join the Sunshine Week group. Are you or your colleagues working on anything of note this year?