by Byron York It was one of the weirdest stories in years. The U.S. military lost a state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jet, last seen flying pilotless over North Charleston, S.C., and was asking the public for help in finding the $80 million plane. As South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy ...
When North Elementary’s principal and vice principal were abruptly put on administrative leave in February, we warned about the dangers of an information vacuum: In the absence of facts, rumors will proliferate. The information blackout didn’t just permit speculation — it ...
by Kevin Goldberg “The right to speak and the right to print, without the right to know, are pretty empty.” These are the words of Harold Cross, author of “The People’s Right to Know,” a book largely regarded as inspiration for the federal Freedom of Information Act ...
The absence of regular House rules during the drawn out floor fight for House speaker produced an unexpected benefit: C-SPAN and other news organizations were able to show the country the whole dayslong battle in real time — including a near-fistfight between two congressmen — because of ...
Senate Republicans are bending over backward to block a bill that would tell the public who is giving large sums of money to groups that take out ads telling Americans to vote for or against candidates for federal office. This is a fight Democrats deserve to win. Sheldon Whitehouse’s ...
Monongalia County didn’t hold anything back Thursday afternoon. Nor did Kanawha, Summers and Jefferson counties. Elkins and Parkersburg kicked it all back, also. If you want to know what elected officials are doing with your tax dollars in those locales, State Auditor J.B. McCuskey ...